Watercooling advice ............... :)

[Ya Mother]

Did you get the ddc 18watt pump and the PA120.3 rad?

[{SAS}TB]

Aye, I got:

Thermochill PA 120.3

Laing 18W DCC Pump

XSPC Top / Res

Laing L Stand

DTEK High Flow Barbs

XSPC 7/16" Clear / UV Blue Tubing

PrimoChill Coils (White)

Black Cable Ties

[Ya Mother]

Same pump and rad as mine. I got the ek ddc top. Where you putting the rad...its huge? or will it fit where your existing one is m8?

[{SAS}TB]

I have a triple in at the moment :





So length / width wise it should be fine

The new rad is approx 25mm deeper so may be tight under the case, may have to look at some mods to raise the case slightly

[Ya Mother]

I was more concerned of the thickness, but looks like you have plenty room underneath.

[{SAS}TB]

Well all the parts are here, the old rig is stripped and drained down.

New Pump / res in place and the rad flushed and barbed up :P

The new rad is slightly longer and the fixing positions different to the last rad, so (hopefully tonight) ill be introducing Mr.Jigsaw and Mr.Drill to my case again to make things line up.

Unfortunately the rad came without fixing screws (Thermochill were extremely helpful and apologetic) and they are in the post today

So, all going well, I should be hopefully up and running by the end of the weekend / early next week some some pics of the ne setup.

Cheers

TB

[Ya Mother]

Nice 1 tb....pics?...i got 11 screws instead of 12. had to order more from chilled pc.

[{SAS}TB]

I took a pick of the mobo tray with everything plumbed in waiting to go back in the case once the bottom is "adjusted" :P and the screws arrive - ive run out of memeory on the camera and need my PC up and runing to dowload the pics

As soon as im set up i'll get them posted

[{SAS}TB]

Nice 1 tb....pics?...i got 11 screws instead of 12. had to order more from chilled pc.

I got the rad direct from Thermochill - they are posting me them out today - hopefully have them tomorrow

[{SAS}TB]

Right, so finally got the parts and being swapping the kit over for the last few days - still have some bits and bobs (cable management and a few other things) to sort out, but here we go ............

Got the new pump attached to the mobo tray and all plumbed up ....



Losing the bay res has freed back up enough room to get a 120mm fan in the front of the case, which now looks like this (the door is not fitted on this shot):



Some of the inside with it all filled up and ready to go

[{SAS}TB]

Now for the temps .............

I was idling around mid 30s @ 3.6 - bearing in mind the general temperature (weather wise) has gone up a few degrees over the last few days, im quite happy with these:



Under load I was getting high 60s (sometimes into the 70s) with a core dropping



Ive solved the core dropping by adjusting the the voltages and my Prime temps have dropped by quite a bit:

[{SAS}TB]

And passes five IBT tests at max temp of 77



So all in all my temps have seen a good drop, I like the set up better and jobs a good um, ill get some pics in the dark with teh UV on later

Ta


TB

[Lloyd_mcse]

Looking awesome mate

[{SAS}TB]

Cheers

Temps are a bit better this morning with lower ambients :



And some from last night:

[{SAS}TB]