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Leak tests actually aren't too bad as far as I remember. Generally if you didn't do it right, you know quickly
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 02:19 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:53 |
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Paper towels everywhere. My first ever loop I leaked right onto my motherboard. Fun times.
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 02:29 |
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PerrineClostermann posted:Leak tests actually aren't too bad as far as I remember. Generally if you didn't do it right, you know quickly (from earlier in this thread.) There's one tube that's got me a little worried, but it's holding fine. Another one has a connector stuck behind the radiator, so I hope that one doesn't need to be fixed any time soon. Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Paper towels everywhere. Yup, currently have a nice layer of towels down!
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 02:44 |
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Solumin posted:Graphics card update: Ended up getting it professionally repaired. Hopefully it'll have a good few years of life. It was expensive enough to make me feel bad, but still cheaper than trying to get a whole new card. My first leak test resulted in a fountain. A rigid tube that was just a haaaair to short. It went into the slot and looked fine from the outside, but had a tiny seam.
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 02:46 |
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Solumin posted:
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 02:57 |
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And this is a youtube professional computer guy! Given that the RAM is lighting up as he powers the pump... does that mean he's got his loving motherboard plugged in while filling!?
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 03:07 |
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Deuce posted:And this is a youtube professional computer guy! lol he must have it plugged in. I can't really tell but it looks like just beneath the ram he's got the 20 pin in. Poor bastard. Forgetting to screw in the cap on the back of a GPU block is already pretty indefensible since it's like the most obvious thing you absolutely need to do, but then filling / leak testing with his mobo plugged in and no freaking paper towels anywhere is even worse.
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 03:17 |
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Deuce posted:My first leak test resulted in a fountain. A rigid tube that was just a haaaair to short. It went into the slot and looked fine from the outside, but had a tiny seam. Rigid tubing seems like more fun. You could do all sorts of bends and things... But soft tubing seems easier to install correctly.
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 03:32 |
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Survived the overnight leak test looks like we're golden.
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# ? Jun 21, 2017 16:35 |
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Solumin posted:Rigid tubing seems like more fun. You could do all sorts of bends and things... But soft tubing seems easier to install correctly. Way easier. Rigid tubing takes a lot of practice to get the bends right. You'll waste a lot of tubes the first time. Fortunately PETG tubing is pretty cheap. Soft tubing you just need to figure out the bend radius to avoid kinking, and be smart enough to measure lengths of things. Rigid tubing I am only really capable of simple runs. If it requires two bends on one tube, it's a huge pain in the rear end. Three is out of the question. I've seen some people do crazy snake-spirally things that are gorgeous, but I am a clumsy goon.
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# ? Jun 22, 2017 01:27 |
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You don't even have to measure soft tubing, just start routing the whole coil through the case from one fitting to the next then pinch and cut it as you go. Soft tubing is so easy to work with it is basically cheating, with the only real downside being it won't look as good as a well done hard tubing rig (which is the whole point of hard tubing).
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# ? Jun 22, 2017 01:57 |
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My experience is limited but soft tubing is hard to work with for really short runs. I have a couple 1 inch long tubes in mine and they were a pain. Long runs are really easy though!
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# ? Jun 22, 2017 03:02 |
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Soft tubing does how ever run the risk of breaking down if the water gets too hot and then the plastix particles block up your gpy and cpu grids
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# ? Jun 22, 2017 03:47 |
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What do y'all like to use for tracking CPU and GPU temps?
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 02:35 |
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https://www.hwinfo.com/
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 02:38 |
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Thanks! Played Borderlands 2 for a bit. Kept to a pretty solid 60 FPS and temp was ~34C. My old card (970) would have given me a shaky 45 FPS with ~60C. This is nice.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 03:29 |
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So I've got the following: Asus Maxiumus VIII Hero i7-6700K running @ 4.5GhZ Corsair H100GTX I've gone through no small number of Corsair Hxxx coolers (3 at least in 5 years) trying to get a stable temperature out of my CPU, however I always see the same thing during load testing: At idle, all temps are fine, in the 30*c-40*c range, and during gaming (World of Warships, X-Plane) temps are around 50*c-60*c and stable. During hard load testing (Prime95), as soon as the testing starts my CPU temp jumps up to around 70*c and slowly climbs past 90*c after 10-15 minutes. The water temp in the rad (according to CorsairLink) during this testing is around 35*c - 45*c and steady. I've never had a thermal shutdown, but getting that hot worries me. As I said, I tried buying a new Corsair cooler, reseating the cooler and reapplying thermal paste, but the issue has always been around. Am I just buying the wrong brand cooler? I've been somewhat loyal to Corsair since they seem to make fairly solid products, and they're local so if anything goes wrong I can literally swing by their RMA center and do an exchange. I used to mess around with water cooling ages ago, and I feel that the closed loops sold by vendors are mostly the way to go for someone who doesn't have a lot of time to dick around with building their own water cooling system. Are there better brands out there than Corsair, or is something else going on here with my setup? Thanks.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 00:41 |
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Is prime95 using AVX?
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 01:12 |
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Honestly not sure, it's been a few months since I actually ran it. The issue I was having today was that much CPU was running around 90*c when running both X-Plane 11 and also converting photoscenery in the background, but the CPU was maybe 60%-70% utilized and I was seeing those temps again.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 01:15 |
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Prime95 definitely uses AVX instructions. Most boards let you set a negative overclock offset for AVX workloads since they add so much thermal load, I set mine to -0.2 and managed to keep consistent temperatures.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 01:49 |
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Yeah don't use prime95, it uses some operations that have been extremely accelerated and causes major temperature spikes that are completely unrealistic for load testing. The intel xtreme tuning utility has a good CPU and memory load test built in that are much better for this purpose.
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 02:23 |
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PerrineClostermann posted:Is prime95 using AVX? I looked this up, some versions do, some don't 26.6 has no AVX 27.9 has AVX 28.9 has FMA3 people seem to recommend 26.6 as a general "realistic workload" stability test
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# ? Jul 9, 2017 18:07 |
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So would people be interested in seeing a Build log for a Caselabs SMA8 with a full retard custom hard line setup?
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# ? Jul 16, 2017 12:12 |
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Yes.
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# ? Jul 16, 2017 12:43 |
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Scarecow posted:So would people be interested in seeing a Build log for a Caselabs SMA8 with a full retard custom hard line setup? God yes, I'm looking to do one of those artsy wall mounted custom loop builds, so anything written by a guy just kinda figuring poo poo out as he goes will be super helpful.
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# ? Jul 16, 2017 14:40 |
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OK so lets begin, may as well start with a parts list. Most of what you will see below I have already and some things I'm still waiting on release and/or will need them (fittings etc) First off this build is full retard and I know how much of a over kill it is, how ever just once I wanted to try building a over the top hardline rgb'ed out the rear end custom overkill PC that will give me a challenge of building it so yes i know its dumb, just enjoy it No even all of the WC parts are here in this photo 560mm Alphacool Monsta radiator 2 EK Coolstream XE 360mm radiators EK Coolstream PE 480mm Radiator Bitspower DSTOPX2 dual D5 pump mount 2 Protium Large black clear reservoirs with Etheral Dual mounts Aquaero 6XT 2 Aquacomputer D5 pumps with Aquabus Aquastream XT Flow sensor 4 Spitty9's (Fan splitters) 5 Thermaltake Riing plus 140mm RGGGGBBBBBBBB fans 5 Thermaltake Riing plus 120mm RRRRGGGGBBBBB fans EK 16mm hardline fittings and extensions and a bunch of noctua 140mm and 120mm fans to make ever radiator push push (theses are from my old build and will be out of sight) as for actual PC parts in the case its going to have the following 2 1080ti FE cards with full cover EK water blocks and back-plates a Threadripper + Mobo once thats out with a Mono block for the CPU and the VRM's on the mobo G-skill RGB ram to suit max ram speed + timings So why the over kill? well with 2 1080tis and a (hopefully 4ghz) 16c/32t Tripper im looking at 300w per gpu and if I9 is anything to go by about 400-500w from the cpu+vrms so theres a lot of heat to be cooled to fit all this i need a case.... The case will be a Caselabs SMA8, this thing is loving gigantic and with some extra brackets can mount a 560mm rad on the bottom up to a monsta 80mm thick with push pull fans AND a 60mm thick EK XE 360mm rad push pull on the other side of the lower deck. However even a lower section large enough to house a small kitty can become full very fast Well thats not so bad... What about down in the basement... Ok so its going to be a little tight but all the wires will fit...right? its not like the PSU is going to be a tight fit ether hah who would be that dumb right? oh...guess I am, As future photos will show that i will only have a area of 150mm x 80mm x 180mm to fill a 1200W psu and all the cables needed to power everything. I'll leave this monster post with a rough idea of how my tubing is going to go inside the case.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 12:46 |
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Jesus that's an expensive build.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:03 |
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That cat owns.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:30 |
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PerrineClostermann posted:Jesus that's an expensive build. Was this posted yet?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:32 |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one prepping for a big idiot threadripper build. You should figure out some way to get noise levels at the end of this. I imagine it'll sound like a plane taking off even with all those quiet fans.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:48 |
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Depending on heat generation, you might be able to run them quite low, actually. My OC'd 2600k and 1070 generate so little heat I can run the fans at minimum with 240+360mm and have very comfortable temperatures.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 15:42 |
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Well the plan is with the radiator area i will have to play with and the control the aquaero gives you i can run fans and pumps at variable speeds and i expect to have fans at 5-600rpm most of the time
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 20:14 |
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Scarecow posted:OK so lets begin, may as well start with a parts list. Most of what you will see below I have already and some things I'm still waiting on release and/or will need them (fittings etc) The ring plus software is utter and complete horseshit return them unopened for a different brand for the love of god
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# ? Jul 18, 2017 21:26 |
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I waa actually planing on modifying the connectors so that they would be connected up to the aus aurasync software
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 00:42 |
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They're also just super bad fans independent of their appearance. You probably have enough that it doesn't really matter but it's a strange concession for such a high end build.
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 03:24 |
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I'll be the first to admit that they were picked for aesthetic reasons first over function as they will be the push part on push/pull set ups with noctua NF-A14 and NF-F12s doing the heavy lifting out of sight
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 03:55 |
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I wanna see that with my 'Lime Green'(piss color) coolant.
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 05:11 |
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Prescription Combs posted:I wanna see that with my 'Lime Green'(piss color) coolant. Hey man, thats just ECTO COOLER.
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 05:21 |
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When I see something like this my first reaction is awe of the craftsmanship, money, time that went into it. The second reaction is sadness because there's no way to upgrade it and a mobile phone will outperform it in benchmarks five years from now.
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# ? Jul 19, 2017 06:57 |
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So it only took 4 hours but this pump block has come up looking really nice and should look great with some leds lighting up the coolent
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