sledgehammer70

I really like that case... I was never a fan of acrylic but i think it is growing on me... especially now that I see how much benefit a double wide case can really be.

There is a Mountain Mods case that is double wide, UFO I think? it has front ability for a triple triple (9x120) radiator. I had not seen that before this case then after I received this and started assembly I saw that one and was upset because it offers 18 wide, 18 deep, this one is 15 wide x 17 deep. Trust me with 2 loops, big PSU, reservoir etc... well you'll see the pics and how much room is NOT left over. :-(
 
However I got a bit happier when I measured between side of my desk and my bench by the wall it is about 16-17" so the width of that mountain mods might have caused me a slight problem but I could have made it work. It isn't acrylic but I think I would have bought it instead because of the front mount 9 x 120 single rad, with ability to add more radiators on the back! and has room for 5.25 bays etc.

Updated pics... comments are welcomed. Especially if anyone can explain if I should worry about the tiny bubbles in a couple of my lines.
 

I just set mine up.  I got rid of them by doing the following things:

1st -- flicking the tube

2nd -- turning the speed of my pump down really low then rapidly bringing up to full

3rd, gently rocking case back and forth, left and right while pump running.

It wasn't until I did three that I got rid of all visible bubbles except the ones in my drain tube, which doesn't really matter because there is no flow through it.

Quick question that 3 way sli, is that bottom connector attached to anything or is it just chillin there?

Both loops are now complete. My XSPC reservoir had a problem with the last fitting hole, around the hole had 2-3 little jagged divets (very very small) well small enough that overnight I had 3-4 drops leak. So I torqued it down even more (almost as if I was going to break the fitting) and it stopped but let it go all day and still got a drop.

FYI: I got almost all my parts from Performance PCs and I thought after spending $2000 that a $50 piece defective would be no problem to get swapped (I was within 30 days of purchase) they said they had to involve XSPC support rep, who wanted to blame fitting or user error or user damage. Since I was fuming that this is the 1. Longest build in my life 2. Most expensive build in my life. I actually DROVE to Performance PCs as they are 2 hrs away (158 miles). Met with James that put the res on a bench filled with water and I got to see those koolance quick connect/disconnect fittings, while they are large they are REALLY good, barely a drop of coolant comes out.

Anyway, I had already sent pictures to the XSPC guy and James finally said he would deal with it with them, but BE AWARE when you purchase from Performance PCs they act like you purchased the item from the manufacturer instead of them and want you to go to manufacturer for support even if it is within 30 days. That got me a little annoyed honestly because as I mentioned to James I didn't buy it direct from XSPC I bought it from them. James said "Well that's what XSPC requires if we are to sell their products". Funny I thought it was the manufacturers that tried to get resellers to buy product to sell for them not the other way around. I'm in the IT industry and if something I bought to resell wasn't working and manufacturer wouldn't handle it then it would be the last time I ever sold anything for them.

Now that I got that all off my chest, build is COMPLETE, ended up getting this nice Lian Li fan controller it has 6 knobs so I can make my PC silent when I am not doing anything stressful, I'll combine 2 fans per header as it'll only be 0.40A total (0.20A per fan) and be able to adjust them at will.

Adjusted my build list to include this item, also I bought 2 T-fittings so I can properly drain my loop when needed, adding all those new items to my list. Oh and the air that you see in pics was a stuck pocket of air in one of my reservoirs, removed it while connected and tilting it around and now loops are free of air.

that is one DEAD sexy build! 

Shortly will have final build pics, it was a serious **** to get this wrapped up, I swear the case is minimum 80LB and that's before HDD installation, so it'll be 85-90LB when I am done. Thankfully I made a platform on MDF with 125LB load caster wheels to move it.

If I have to remove MB it is going to be a serious PITA, also removing PSU serious PITA. Everything had to be put together like a car engine layer after layer, the most expensive, time consuming and difficult build I've ever done. I believe after all said and done there's $1400 in just the water cooling if you add case + PSU it gets up to $2000.......

It has been about 5 days now that I've been tweaking voltages to squeeze every last MHZ out of this CPU / MB so I can justify the water cooling. I'm stable in Linx and OCCT now but Prime95 failed after 8 hours yesterday with a BSOD 0x0000000A so I bumped vcc + vdimm 1 notch each and I have prime95 going 8 hours exactly now. Going to give it rest of morning into the afternoon then call it stable finally!

I'll get those final build pics when I unplug and can capture both sides of it with and without the HDDs installed. I went through 20 (TWENTY) Feet of tubing! That's not counting the couple feet of mistakes that's actual usage. I managed to get just over 4.4Ghz out of the CPU and it wasn't easy to do. So far GPUs were around 870-890 without any voltage tweaking so anxious to see with extra voltage how I'll do on those with 6x120mm rad cooling I should get the max out of them.

Geebus Riced !!!!

That thing gives new meaning to the word "BEAST" !!

looks amazing!! by far one of the greatest looking rigs i've yet to see.

Final pics!!! Check out the WEI and SSD speeds! This is by far the wildest build I've ever done and probably will EVER DO. Inside this double wide is double stuffed. I thought I'd have room to spare but NOPE. The thing is put together like a Rubic's Cube... Everything has to go in a certain way and removed a certain way. 22 FEET of Tubing....... 3.5 LITERS of coolant. UPS battery you see is a 1500VA SmartUps that handles 980W.... At 2560x1600 in Vantage it OVERLOADS when I overclock past 1800 shader / 2200 mem....That's with ONLY the PC attached
 
Enjoy the pics, leave a post if you like them or have any questions.
 

gotta say it......that is a thing of shear beauty....nice job....and i am with sledge....acrylics are growing on me....especially after seeing that....really nice job....

Pentium could not take my eyes off the build.the effort and time you put into this was worth every minute and dollar. thanks for taking the time and sharing the experience. i know you are tired but when you get the time and inspiration do the wireing it will make a big difference. i will include a pic of my poultry system

what were your overall thoughts on the enzotech NB/SB/Vreg block, Im planning on using that on an upcoming addition to my pc

Awesome images Pentium... those Vreg temps seem hot tbh... Might want to make sure you have good connection with your blocks. I used a double layer of thermal pads as one pad was not thick enough to properly connect. but I used the spacers on my EK block so it might be different for you.

My Vregs sit around 44c idle and hit 58c max load. NB is 45c and 61c max load.

I am at the point right now where I want to see what swapping my chipset loop does overall to my cooling. I currently have it on the CPU loop, but would like to move that small amount of heat to the GPU loop.

I am thinking of also swapping my flow to run from the bottom up on the GPU's. I have heart and seen some positive results doing it this way but I will need to buy some more compression fitting as I do not feel barbs will hold back that pressure build up.

Either or fun things I can test with my system in trying to get better temps.

sledgehammer70

Awesome images Pentium... those Vreg temps seem hot tbh... Might want to make sure you have good connection with your blocks. I used a double layer of thermal pads as one pad was not thick enough to properly connect. but I used the spacers on my EK block so it might be different for you.

My Vregs sit around 44c idle and hit 58c max load. NB is 45c and 61c max load.

I am at the point right now where I want to see what swapping my chipset loop does overall to my cooling. I currently have it on the CPU loop, but would like to move that small amount of heat to the GPU loop.

I am thinking of also swapping my flow to run from the bottom up on the GPU's. I have heart and seen some positive results doing it this way but I will need to buy some more compression fitting as I do not feel barbs will hold back that pressure build up.

Either or fun things I can test with my system in trying to get better temps.

Thanks!. My BCLK is running 210 and I need 1.53v because of the droop of the X58 SLI. Wish I had gone classified now because when you set voltage say 1.500v it actually stays there or is 1.505 for example when stressed. My CPU when stressed goes from 1.53v in bios down to 1.494-1.505v because of droop even though droop is turned off in bios, if I turn it on it droops even more.
 
Vreg temps are high for that reason I think and I am running 18x uncore, if I go with lower bclk and lower uncore with less voltage vreg is 48-50c idle and 55-60 load so it must have good enough contact. Our NB temps are almost the same.
 
I put my chipset loop with GPUs because both GPUs and chipset aren't so sensitive to temps, 55C to 60C on GPU won't make any difference for example but for CPU I wanted no restriction and best temps. My GPU loop is pretty restrictive with 2 separate 360 rads connected plus 2 water blocks and the chipset block now I am adding 1 koolance quick disconnect tomorrow morning which I'll show pics of it. VL3N which doesn't even allow 1 drop of coolant out, VL4 I was thinking of getting but it is only slightly less restrictive but lets out 2-3 teaspoons of coolant. I'll show ya some closer pics of my GPU loop when I get it back together tomorrow and how it goes from bottom up, Res->Pump->Rad1->Rad2->GPU2->GPU1->Chipset->Res
 
It was VERY solid, since I had to disconnect it, took me removing the clamp completely (still didn't leak) and then squeezing the Tygon tube a LOT to get it to leak a couple drops. I am going to replace that stubby stock fitting that came with the 480 HC with a bitspower C01 that has more grip. Also the bottom card if there is a couple drops won't really hurt anything even the XFI card because the fitting is higher in the PCI slot.