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I prefer the Truth... And i think you had to buy a new one. You can try to clean this, but it is really difficould (my old Monitor looks like the Camera too :D). B.t.w., i would never put Water in my holy PC. One tiny Hole in the Hull and Shes going down. :88) But it looks nice and clean. |
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And it's not like you'll find thousands of links when you search google for leaks... Oh! Wait... :shifty: You'll get 1 million and 220 thousand links! :rotfl2: :rock: http://www.google.com/search?q=pc+water+cool+leaking But have a tiny update. The camera is now nice and clean again after use of propylalchohol and lots of elbow grease. Thank you Nikon for making the brilliant rubber coating! And Carsten, the camera owner, only rolled of laughter when he saw the pics :nope: Had a little set-back with the pc. It turned out that the loop was way too restrictive = very little flow through the system. Have now removed cooling heads for MOSFETs, North- and Southbridge: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...5970/X58V7.jpg Obsessive or not - the RAM looks so much better now... :D http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/X58V7-2.jpg And of course the cooling fins looks great in black too! :rock: |
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So it was a black and white camera! Lucky it cleaned easily (?) or Carsten may not have been laughing for long. |
I did spend an evening searching the marked for a new camera house. Cheapest I could find was a second-hand at some $200... :dead:
Decided to take the risk and first tested on a bottom corner. Only thing that would bite was as said propyl alchohol. Used two new rags for the procedure. First wetting the area with one cloth, then lots of rubbing with the dry cloth. What a relief to see the fine "dust" go off :D Took some two hours to finish the job... ----- Don't understand why die frau thinks water cooling is messy? Can't remember seeing a cleaner and dryer pc ever :hmmm: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z.../PC_ATM001.jpg From the dismounting party... the towels and papercloths are only safety precautions, not a drop of liqued was spilled :rock: New leaktests to be performed later today... brb :zzz: |
Rebuild is complete! Again! :rock:
But while taking a break and enjoying all cabling in case is finally finished... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY069.jpg ... he suddenly realised, he couldn't live with this sight after all! http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...banana_sad.gif http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY071.jpg Rebuild #67.2A underway! :damn: Will bolt cooling box to case and let tubings run through bottom of case/top of cooling box instead. Isn't this a lovely hobby to have? :D |
Lets hope you never have a leak with your PS below the flow tubes.
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I believe a non-conductive liquid is used, although some people use distilled water - I don't think it'll be black enough for our JK here! :03: |
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Just don't rush things and be very meticulous when putting things together. Run a long leaktest before powering up the rig. First WC build was made more than a year ago, never saw a leak under construction and still holds tight in it's new home. This build has been running a 20 hour leaktest, was tight straight from the beginning and still is. If you check the million google links for leaking water, you'll be surprised how sloppy people are... :D But it's hard to find waterleaks with disastrous results - air cooling has killed more pc's than water ever will. Wishing you a nice weekend! :salute: Going back to the rebuild... :yawn: will post pics later... And btw. distilled water isn't conductive either. |
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My Bosun often said: "Arbeit zieht Arbeit nach sich!" In english its like: "Work causes more work!" Here you are. :D But it looks nice. What are the Temperatures? |
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Will return with several tests after build is complete. Both benchmarks for single, dual and tripple gpu, and for system with stock clocks as well as overclocked. Today is devoted to Tour de France though... |
Having a break between Tour de France, FIA WTCC and World Series by Renault :D
Masking components before drilling additional holes in the bottom... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY072.jpg "Upgrading" M3 thread to M4 threads... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/biggrin3.gif http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY073.jpg New stands/spacers made by converting some fitting extenders... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY074.jpg Next job, the big holes... :zzz: |
Today's update!
New holes for tubing up/down:
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY082.jpg Nice piece of steel to make holes for tubes. Only needed to lightly file the edges. Of course there was an existing 3 mm hole that got in the way, but for looks the tube had to run there... Four corner stands, one spacer for cabling and one for looks! http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY091.jpg Had to strip the cooling box completely for the rebuild... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY093.jpg The smallest pump in the world... and some anti-kink measures! http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY099.jpg Running final (?) leaktest... :shifty: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY101.jpg The back is much cleaner now... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY102.jpg Even thought of turning the 5870 into a true slave-card by unsoldering/removing ports, but it is nice to have in case of trouble further ahead... :hmmm: hmmm, seems I needs to adjust some of those brackets. Like the new spacers... http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY104.jpg Leaktest is running and everything looks to be tight. If time permits I'll finish cabling and close the cooling box later today/tonight. Will (most probably! :D ) post temp stats and some final pics then... thanks for watching and for the nice comments! |
Done! :rock:
No leaks, no damage, all cool! Updated drivers and app. profiles. http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...70/ASSY120.jpg Temps idle cpu/gpu 29/30, under load 31/49 :zzz: Ambient temp is some 20 degree. For better temps, the fans for radiator should be replaced from current 800 RPM to 1200 (or higher) RPM, but the advantage is the silence. Scaling running Heaven DX11 Benchmark 2.5: Single 5870: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/5870-114.jpg Single 5970 (= 2 x 5870): http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...5970x1-109.jpg Tri-Fire (= 1 x 5970 + 1 x 5870 = 3 x 5870): http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z...5870x3-109.jpg Next tasks will be cleaning tower/box :D and then some light overclocking. Graphics cards are running the "slow" 5970 mode (725/1000MHz) and will be upped to 5870 mode, 850/1200MHz. CPU i7-930 will be overclocked from current 2,8GHz to ~3,6GHz. |
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Looking good, but if I were as 'caring' as you to the colours I would've had your beloved Fractal Designs PSU out and covered up that horrible orangey/yellow! :o Just saying. :D |
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