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Hey guys, I posted this over at OCAU but thought you might also be interested...
OK, so i was running an E6600/4Gb RAM/P45 mobo/8800GT in a rackmount case. I used to have a rack for it to go into, there's another one coming soon, but thats another story...
I decided to put all my old water cooling gear back into action and after discovering my old MCP-600 pump had crapped itself I figured I'd just buy a whole bunch of new gear.
In the process I decided to also upgrade to an i7 and an ATI 5850.
So basicly, I jumped from fiddling with my old water gear, to buying an entire new PC and cooling gear to go with it. LOL.
Anyway, all the parts have arrived now so here goes...
PC Parts:
Core i7 920 D0
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
6Gb G.Skill Trident DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24
MSI Radeon 5850
Silverstone Strider 500W PSU (gonna replace with somthing larger soon)
3 x 160Gb Seagate 7200.11 in RAID-0
1Tb Samsung Spinpoint F3
Antec 4U rack case
Water cooling parts:
Swiftech Apogee XT
EK 5850 full cover acetal block
Swiftech MCP-655 w/ EK X-TOP rev. 2
XSPC RX360 radiator w/ Scythe S-FLEX 1700RPM fans
Bitspower 5.25" bay res
Feser 1/2" blue UV tubing
A bunch of BP 45's/90's and compression fittings
Scythe Kaze Server fan controller
Here's the mobo with the Apogee XT attached (I ended up rotating it afterwards so the barbs were in a better spot):
The Trident DDR3-2000:
Motherboard in the case:
Pump with EK top and fittings attached:
Here's a couple of shots of the elaborate Gigabyte chipset cooling solution:
A shot of the rad (this will be mounted above the PC in the back of the rack when its finished):
Ghetto fillport (I need to cut a hole in the top of the drive cage so I can top up the loop without pulling the res out):
The loop:
Please excuse the messy cables and lights etc, I will do a cleanup job over the next few days:
BP Water temp sensor going into the back of the res:
From the outside:
To do list:
1. Buy bigger PSU.
2. Cut hole in 5.25" cage for access to the res fillport without removing it from the case.
3. Cut holes for the tubing to exit at the back of the case.
4. Tidy up all the wiring.
5. Mount the cold cathodes properly.
6. Install a window kit in the lid.
7. When I get a new Rack in a couple weeks, mount radiator in the back of the rack.
8. Add a full cover waterblock for the mobo
9. Add another 5850 :p
So far its running at 4.41GHz with 1.4v. The 5850 is running at 1000MHz core and 1200MHz mem.
Load temps are about 70 deg. The radeon never breaks 40 deg.
There seems to be heaps more headroom in this system for overclocking, I've only had it for a few days and it's my first i7 so I'm still getting aquainted with it. :)
OK, so i was running an E6600/4Gb RAM/P45 mobo/8800GT in a rackmount case. I used to have a rack for it to go into, there's another one coming soon, but thats another story...
I decided to put all my old water cooling gear back into action and after discovering my old MCP-600 pump had crapped itself I figured I'd just buy a whole bunch of new gear.
In the process I decided to also upgrade to an i7 and an ATI 5850.
So basicly, I jumped from fiddling with my old water gear, to buying an entire new PC and cooling gear to go with it. LOL.
Anyway, all the parts have arrived now so here goes...
PC Parts:
Core i7 920 D0
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
6Gb G.Skill Trident DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24
MSI Radeon 5850
Silverstone Strider 500W PSU (gonna replace with somthing larger soon)
3 x 160Gb Seagate 7200.11 in RAID-0
1Tb Samsung Spinpoint F3
Antec 4U rack case
Water cooling parts:
Swiftech Apogee XT
EK 5850 full cover acetal block
Swiftech MCP-655 w/ EK X-TOP rev. 2
XSPC RX360 radiator w/ Scythe S-FLEX 1700RPM fans
Bitspower 5.25" bay res
Feser 1/2" blue UV tubing
A bunch of BP 45's/90's and compression fittings
Scythe Kaze Server fan controller
Here's the mobo with the Apogee XT attached (I ended up rotating it afterwards so the barbs were in a better spot):
The Trident DDR3-2000:
Motherboard in the case:
Pump with EK top and fittings attached:
Here's a couple of shots of the elaborate Gigabyte chipset cooling solution:
A shot of the rad (this will be mounted above the PC in the back of the rack when its finished):
Ghetto fillport (I need to cut a hole in the top of the drive cage so I can top up the loop without pulling the res out):
The loop:
Please excuse the messy cables and lights etc, I will do a cleanup job over the next few days:
BP Water temp sensor going into the back of the res:
From the outside:
To do list:
1. Buy bigger PSU.
2. Cut hole in 5.25" cage for access to the res fillport without removing it from the case.
3. Cut holes for the tubing to exit at the back of the case.
4. Tidy up all the wiring.
5. Mount the cold cathodes properly.
6. Install a window kit in the lid.
7. When I get a new Rack in a couple weeks, mount radiator in the back of the rack.
8. Add a full cover waterblock for the mobo
9. Add another 5850 :p
So far its running at 4.41GHz with 1.4v. The 5850 is running at 1000MHz core and 1200MHz mem.
Load temps are about 70 deg. The radeon never breaks 40 deg.
There seems to be heaps more headroom in this system for overclocking, I've only had it for a few days and it's my first i7 so I'm still getting aquainted with it. :)
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