HeatSurge
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I'm bored and I never posted pix of my ub3r 1337 liquid cooling setup (which is kind of a mess+shitty cable management), which I assembled a few months ago now, so there you go.
Components are as follows:
Outside:
- Office Depot or Staples desk (can't remember which, lulz) expertly put together by me lol.
- Westinghouse w3LVSE (or something like that) 37" 1080p (1920x1080) via DVI.
- ATCS 840 case
- Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme fan controller (also pump is hooked up to it, but cranked to max anyway... makes for a pretty light).
- Samsung DVD-writer (cheap, old, hardly use it anymore)
- Hard drive caddy for hot-swapping SATA drives on front
- Microsoft multimedia keyboard (9 years old PS/2 still going strong and I love it)
- Razer Deathadder (old rev., kinda worn out a bit actually) with teflon skates
- Revoltec Precision Advanced Pad
- Cyberpower 1500VA Battery Backup
- Klipsch 2.1 THX speakers (cheap refurbs off ebay, but have worked great for 5 years now
)
- Sennheiser HD 280 Pros
- cheap $10 USB mic
Inside:
- Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (Rev 1) mobo (there's a rev 2 now I found out recently D: )
- I7 920 D0 stepping
- Galaxy GTX 480 stripped
- Corsair XMS (1600 cas7) 6GB
- X-Fi (PCI ver.)
- Corsair 950W PSU (the yellow TX model)
- 3 Hard drives, 2x$250GB each (getting old too), in Raid0 array for games and shit, boot drive 2GB.
Watercooling loop:
Just 1 loop, goes both through GPU and CPU block. Debated 2 loops, but decided to go with 1 due to powerful pump, and high-flow components and it works well.
- EK Supreme HF CPU block (copper/acetal)
- EK GTX 480 GPU block (copper/acetal)
- Swiftech radiators (220 front, 320 top, 120 back) - the "low airflow" ones
- 6xScythe Gentle Typhoons (hooked in series for each radiator and to the front controller, so one of the "knobs" controls all 3 fans on the 320 rad)
- 3x22cm(or whatever ridiculously large) fans that come with the ATCS840 - 2 top, 1 front, again hooked in series to the front controller - both top combined.
- MCP655 pump with EK Acetal Top
- Primochill blue tubing, pressure clamps, DangerDen fittings, everywhere 1/2" ID 3/4" OD tubing and fittings.
- XSPC 5.25" Radiator
- Liquid is plain store-bought, clear Distilled Water ($99/gallon lol), with petra's PT nuke, and a silver coil in the reservoir (dual protection heh).
I haven't tried "extreme OCing" and records and shit - I spent WAY too much time finding stable 24/7 settings anyway. As it is, for 24/7 I have:
- CPU at 4.2ghz, 80C max stress on all cores, ~40C no stress - 1.35Vcore (and a lot on the memory controller, can't remember how much - I seem to have a shit memory controller or something)
- Memory 1600 MHz cas7, didn't want to push it at all, so I haven't even fiddled with it, could possibly do more/less cas...
- GPU at voltage 1100mV, 840Mhz Core, 1680MHz Shader, 2100MHz Memory, ~40C no stress, ~60C max stress
Sorry for the shit quality of the pics - that's the best my phone can do .
If I missed anything, ask away :-D
Components are as follows:
Outside:
- Office Depot or Staples desk (can't remember which, lulz) expertly put together by me lol.
- Westinghouse w3LVSE (or something like that) 37" 1080p (1920x1080) via DVI.
- ATCS 840 case
- Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme fan controller (also pump is hooked up to it, but cranked to max anyway... makes for a pretty light).
- Samsung DVD-writer (cheap, old, hardly use it anymore)
- Hard drive caddy for hot-swapping SATA drives on front
- Microsoft multimedia keyboard (9 years old PS/2 still going strong and I love it)
- Razer Deathadder (old rev., kinda worn out a bit actually) with teflon skates
- Revoltec Precision Advanced Pad
- Cyberpower 1500VA Battery Backup
- Klipsch 2.1 THX speakers (cheap refurbs off ebay, but have worked great for 5 years now
)- Sennheiser HD 280 Pros
- cheap $10 USB mic
Inside:
- Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (Rev 1) mobo (there's a rev 2 now I found out recently D: )
- I7 920 D0 stepping
- Galaxy GTX 480 stripped
- Corsair XMS (1600 cas7) 6GB
- X-Fi (PCI ver.)
- Corsair 950W PSU (the yellow TX model)
- 3 Hard drives, 2x$250GB each (getting old too), in Raid0 array for games and shit, boot drive 2GB.
Watercooling loop:
Just 1 loop, goes both through GPU and CPU block. Debated 2 loops, but decided to go with 1 due to powerful pump, and high-flow components and it works well.
- EK Supreme HF CPU block (copper/acetal)
- EK GTX 480 GPU block (copper/acetal)
- Swiftech radiators (220 front, 320 top, 120 back) - the "low airflow" ones
- 6xScythe Gentle Typhoons (hooked in series for each radiator and to the front controller, so one of the "knobs" controls all 3 fans on the 320 rad)
- 3x22cm(or whatever ridiculously large) fans that come with the ATCS840 - 2 top, 1 front, again hooked in series to the front controller - both top combined.
- MCP655 pump with EK Acetal Top
- Primochill blue tubing, pressure clamps, DangerDen fittings, everywhere 1/2" ID 3/4" OD tubing and fittings.
- XSPC 5.25" Radiator
- Liquid is plain store-bought, clear Distilled Water ($99/gallon lol), with petra's PT nuke, and a silver coil in the reservoir (dual protection heh).
I haven't tried "extreme OCing" and records and shit - I spent WAY too much time finding stable 24/7 settings anyway. As it is, for 24/7 I have:
- CPU at 4.2ghz, 80C max stress on all cores, ~40C no stress - 1.35Vcore (and a lot on the memory controller, can't remember how much - I seem to have a shit memory controller or something)
- Memory 1600 MHz cas7, didn't want to push it at all, so I haven't even fiddled with it, could possibly do more/less cas...
- GPU at voltage 1100mV, 840Mhz Core, 1680MHz Shader, 2100MHz Memory, ~40C no stress, ~60C max stress
Sorry for the shit quality of the pics - that's the best my phone can do
.
If I missed anything, ask away :-D
