New watercooling project completed

[kennychr]

System specs:

MB: Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming 5Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming 5

Cpu: Intel I7 5820K Stock: 3.6Ghz. Prelim OC: 4.3GHZ

Gpu: MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4g

Ram: Corsair Vengance DDR4 2800Mhz 16GB

SSD: Samsung 840Evo 250GB               

 

Watercooling parts used:

 

Rads: 1x EKWB PE240 Radiator 1x EKWB PE360 Radiator

CPU block: EKWB EK-Supremacy EVO NI

GPU block: EKWB FC-980 Acetal+Nickel + black backplate

Pump\Reservoir: EKWB EK-Bay D5 Vario.

 

Fans:

A total of 6 Corsair SP120 High perfomance PWM fans controlled by a corsair link mini for software control with temp\fan speed capability.

 

Fans are setup so that it is overpressure in the case so that dust a not a big factor, one fan is exhausting air at a set speed while the others are on a curve. The curve setup means that below 40*C the fans are not running and the HW is just cooled by passive heat exchange from the rads.

 

I was getting tired of my (in my own opinion) 1337leet tower and decided to go for something more cleaner to the eyes than the CM HAF XM case I was running my system in before.

 

The case i decided to watercool was the Corsair Carbide Air 520:

 

I started by stripping down the case to the chassis:

 

Painted the black parts red for some better contrast(the red is redder IRL then the picture,cam on phone doesnt like interior lighting):

 

 

Test fitting the front 360mm Rad, expecting tight fitment towards the top rad!:

 

Fast forward a bit, front end business complete, note the QD fitting for a easy GPU upgrade:

 

 

Mid runing hoses to the pump\resorvoir combo:

 

Some beauty shots with my SLR when I had it up after leak testing for 24h(I have redone the cables on the I\O for a cleaner look after this):

 

 

 

[Pancake]

 

Looks good

[Waskey-Wabit]

that`s a good looking Rig job well done i would say

[Chuck]

http://s18.postimg.org/wu1hk19kn/giphy.gif

[MajorGoliathus]

Wow man that is Awesome ... i dont have that much times to make this myself so i bought it ... but its not the same ...

[PiranhA]

When i was reading the title the first thing i was thinking about:

 

[kennychr]

So a bit of an update on this: My old pump\reservoir combo is slowly dying(impeller is borked) so I am getting low pressure in the loop so that will get changed in the near future. Aaand I am contemplating on getting 2xGTX1080's to have frames in pretty much anything that comes in the next few years..

[Dingo]

mail me your 980 if you do  #moneytoburn

[Origins]

me first Pl0x however Dingo that 980 he has coil wines like a bitch

[Josh]

I wants 1080 plz

£619 in the uk tho

[Amentes]

 

Someone replace the money with 1080s.