We are really happy, that you like our pictures so much :)
 
@Brimy: the GPU were provided to us by EVGA and no longer functional, so didn't have to worry
 
@bcavnaugh: Yes, we will do that as soon as possible
 
@seta8967: We used Mayhems Aurora 2 Extinction Green and darkened it with Mayhems Dye Emerald Green. The pearl effect does not go away, even after several weeks. In fact, the loop is still up as we didn't get around to disassemble and cleaning it. We never had problems with clogging. Normally, we let pump run overnight, when we wanted to take more pictures the following day. One day, we shut it down over night, but we had no problems when we restarted it the next time. As I said, we used Aurora 2, there might have been problems with earlier Aurora mixtures.
Mayhems Aurora is not for longterm use in a productive systems. We use other Mayhems colors in our watercooled PC’s and there has never been a colour change, not even after almost a year.

 

Darn, nice looking fluid. Trying to find a nice red, and deep blue for my 2 computers. both are using solid acrylic...

We can really recommend the Mayhems products, we've made good experience with them so far.

In the previous post in this series, we announced that we would tell you something about choosing the best pictures and editing them. But first of all, we would like to apologize, that we did not continue our series for so long. In this article, we will explain to you what happened in the meantime.
 
Let's take a look back: For the photoshooting with the waterblocks and the EVGA graphic cards, we had used our benchtable: The whole system and the tubing was specially adapted for that purpose. During the photoshooting, we had also started to plan our future benchtable system with all components integrated into the cooling loop.
 
We had already published this photo:
 

 
The front consisted of an Alphacool reservoir and a D5 pump with an acrylic top. This setup had also been visible in some of the picture we took:
 

 
But we noticed very soon, that the D5 pump lacked a little bit of power. No question, it's a great pump and we also like the top very well. But already when we filled the loop, we had the impression that the pump could not build up enough pressure and flow. Thanks to the acrylic covers of the two waterblocks, it was clearly visible. What worried us a little bit was that in the complete loop, there would be some additional components like two internal radiators, an external MORA and a two-part chipset cooler for the motherboard.
 
We needed a new plan: We switched back and forth between two separate loops and one loop with two pumps. When searching for suitable components, we noticed that the selection of dual pump tops was not very large. We tried out different versions as a CGI, even an idea with two reservoir tubes mounted horizontally in the lower part of the benchtable. Finally, we decided to build one loop and use two DDC pumps with a dual pump top from XSPC.
 
To achieve that however, we need some new case parts for the benchtable chassis. That would have cost us more time than we liked: Monk-Trader from our team uses the benchtable also as a powerful workstation for things like the post-processing of images in Lightroom and Photoshop, or the creation of CGI designs. And that’s exactly what we needed right now.
 
Therefore, we decided to build a new workstation using the same hardware we originally planned for the benchtable. As a case, we chose the Shinobi XL from BitFenix, which we originally had intended to use for another project.
 
But even now, things developed not as quickly as we had hoped: The mounting of the two pumps turned out to be one of the biggest "stumbling blocks". We came up with a solution very quickly – but the implementation seemed to go on “forever”, which was very frustrating. In addition, we were involved in developing a new case modding project, but we will tell you more about this later on.
 
For the installation of the two pumps and the two poweradjust boards for regulating the power we needed a metal plate and planned to mount it to the front side of the case. After some annoying back and forth, we finally found a competent partner at the mechanical workshop of the “Bürgerspital Basel”, who made the plate and four washers for the installation of the bulkhead connectors on the openings on the back side of the case. And the guys from Marcel Fischer AG did a great paintjob on the parts as well.
 
This is the brass plate and the four washers:
 

 
Here you can see the painted plate with the two pumps and poweradjust boards at the front of the Shinobi XL chassis. The wiring is still missing. The plate sits on four decoupling screws:
 

 
Here you can see the washers with the two bulkhead connectors. We need them to connect the loop to our external radiator. The washers are necessary, because the openings in the case are slightly too large:
 

 
Completing the rig and installing all the hardware is making good progress now. The reservoir and the flowmeter for example are already at their place:
 

 
In preparation for all this, we thoroughly cleaned all the watercooling components we had used during the photoshooting. This also took a couple of days. The Mayhems Aurora had been in the loop for several weeks and even a certain time without the pump running. We cleaned all parts with dishwashing liquid and isopropyl alcohol, because we wanted to neutralize all remains of the biological components from the Mayhems Aurora. We disassembled all waterblocks and cleaned each part individually. We will come back to our experience with the Aurora liquid in an upcoming post.
 
We will however take our time to shoot some new hardware like the new CPU cooler from Watercool, the Heatkiller IV. Once we have the new system up and running, we will use it for editing and publishing the images you all have been asking for here in this thread.
 

I have 4 of the watercool heatkiller on my Titan Blacks and all I can say, I will never buy anything else other that Watercool products, they are fantastic as far is quality and performance and the backplates! nothing can compare, simply amazing 

These are non working cards. Used only for the photo shoot. The water blocks look awesome! Nice Job, thanks for sharing the pictures.

@ everbody: thanks for all your comments. 
 
As announced in the last post, we again took some time for new hardware photography. For the chipset cooler, we used two flat stone slabs from our local DIY store. For us, this had some “historical significance”, as we had already used them as a background when we started with our very first watercooling project three years ago. Only back then we had no studio flash lights system and took the images outside on the balcony in the sunshine.
 
Again, we had to pay close attention to dust or fingerprints on the waterblock. To remove the dust, we used the compressor, for polishing we used isopropyl alcohol, which has proven to be very useful.
 

 
For the shooting, we used the Nikon D610 and a macro lens, which Nikon had both placed at our disposal. We have already published some images with the full frame DSLR, and now it had to prove itself in product photography. The camera fits perfectly when you hold it in your hands and you can really hold it steady when taking pictures. In the viewfinder, you can display gridlines. This helps tremendously to keep the camera straight. You can align the camera at the edges of the product, which is photographed. Thus, you can save a lot of time and work in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop later.
 
And since the camera has a resolution of 24.3 megapixels, you can even leave enough edge to make a clean crop later.
 
We also used the stone slabs for the Alphacool fittings we shot next. The lightning setup was the same we always use: one flash light at each side and a third from the front indirectly via the ceiling.
 

 
After the fittings, we turned our attention to the new CPU cooler from Watercool, the Heatkiller IV. Here, we first made a few comparison shots with its previous model in the light tent on the floor. We used our setup that we had described before. Since our zoom lens for the Nikon D610 did not cover the required focal length, we had to use our Canon D60 again for these shots.
 

 
After that, we shot some more images in the light tent on the table and used the D610 again. Basically, a light tent is a very useful thing, when it comes to preventing reflections. The only thing is that our light tent is so bent and twisted after two years, that you can hardly work properly with it.
 

 
Finally, we transformed the bathroom into a photo studio und even put a flash light in there. We wanted to shoot the Heatkiller IV in the bathtub with water splashing out of it.
 

 
This worked quite well, even with only one flash light as a light source. We only had to be careful that the camera did not get wet. Here is a first processed image:
 

 
With these images, the hardware photography for our new workstation is complete. We can finally continue with the assembly in the computer case.

My whole system is based on Heatkiller product, there are no sexier and better performing blocks on the market....period.
 
Sorry, just realize I already stated my opinion  in a post above about Heatkiller product , I don't mean to sound so persistent

Here are the first images of the new workstation and some product images along with it :)
 

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Hardware:
Intel Core i7-4960X
Watercool CPU Heatkiller IV
ASUS Rampage IV Black
Watercool Heatkiller MB-X KIT ASUS RAMPAGE IV Black Edition