800D Case MOD Complete

Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:48 pm by dwarfer

So after waiting ages to gather all the parts and find some time to assemble the whole build its done.. Complete.. (well for now), The System in total has two water temperature sensors one on each of the “out” flows

Corsair 800D (AKA The Beats), Bitspower 480 radguard
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) / Slackware 12.2
MB: Asus Maximus IV Extreme, EK-FB ASUS Maximus IV Extreme – Acetal +Nickel
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600k 3.40Ghz, EK-Supreme HF – Acetal+Nickel
RAM: Corsair Memory Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1866 MHz CAS 9 XMP Dual Channel
GPU 1: PowerColor LCS HD6970 2GB GDDD5 (CrossFireX)
GPU 2: PowerColor LCS HD6970 2GB GDDD5 (CrossFireX)
PSU: Zalman ZM1000-HP
HD: 2x OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD SATA 6Gb/s R550MB/s W500MB/s 60k IOPS (raid 0)
RAD 1: Hardware labs SR-1 480, 4 x Noctua NF-s12B
RAD 2: Hardware labs SR-1 240, 2 x Noctua NF-s12B
Fan Controller: Aquaero 5 XT
Fittings: Crap loads of Bitspower stuff..

As you can see everything is now connected and working

The 480 RAD was a little tight to get the fitting in but with the array of Bitspower fittings it was not to bad

As you can see the Bitspower Crystal Link Tube looked quite nice on the CPU to link to the MB water block

CrossfireX again with Bitspower Crystal Link Tube

RAD2 with the Flow sensor attached.

The Koolance RP-452X2 and Aquacomputer Aquaero 5 XT (still need black face plate)

Here are the Temperature from after playing 30mins of gameing

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EK CPU and Full Board Cooler Intsall

Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:41 am by dwarfer

After swapping out the stock cooling on the ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme for the EK-FB ASUS Maximus IV Extreme – Acetal +Nickel and installing the CPU and the EK-Supreme HF – Acetal+Nickel heatsink its time to try and plum them together.

ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme with EK CPU and MB coolers

Ideally you should have the RAD go into the CPU (left hole) first however as you can see bellow this was causing issues

Plumbing #1 FAIL

ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme + EK #1

Plumbing #2 FAIL

ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme + EK #2

after trying lots of combination I gave up on that plan. The new plan is to go from the RAD to the MB Cooler first then onto the GPU.

Plumbing #3 FAIL but only just

ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme + EK #3Plumbing #4 SUCCESS

ASUS RoG Maximus IV Extreme + EK #4

Changing the flow sequences should not make any real difference and I kinda like the look of the clear (cross fire) link tube

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800D Case MOD 480 Radiator

Posted on May 7, 2011 at 3:16 pm by dwarfer

After doing the first 240 mod its time now to think about the top rad and squeezing a 480 rad at the top, again i was looking at the XSPC and Hardware labs offerings (RX480 and  SR-1 480) again I went for the SR-1 in the end.  This case mod was slightly harder due to the fact this would be visible.. like the 800D Blood built I to went for the Bitspower custom radgard

 

Rad size

Bitspower 480 radguard

Side Space

Back Space

Front Space

Inside cut line

Front Cut line

Rear Cut Line

Bitspower 480 radguard installed

Fully Installed

240 and 480 installed

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800D Case MOD 240 Radiator

Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:26 pm by dwarfer

I have finally decided to install two RAD’s into the case the first being a 240 rad located at the bottom of the case, after looking at lots of rads the choice was between the XSPC RX240 and Hardware Labs Black Ice SR-1 240.  In the end I went with the SR-1 240

Here are some pictures of the mod and final install

This is where I am going to place the rad

 

Cutting a whole in the new case (EKK!!)

I had to purchase a small 240 rad guard to cover the hole

 

bolted back together

Final resting place

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Time for a new case

Posted on January 7, 2011 at 8:44 pm by dwarfer

After buying two new graphics (ATI PowerColor LCS HD6970)  cards for my PC i realized the current water cooling in my LQ-1000 was just not enough..  After doing some research and coming across the following two build I had my inspiration 800D Blood and Project Turamba

The Corsair 800D was chosen

I am looking at a dual RAD setup with either 480 and 240 or 360 and 240, I am still thinking about dual loop or single loop. Flow wise if I go single i’m looking at Reservoirs/pump -> RAD 1 -> CPU -> MB -> RAD 2 -> GPU 1 -> GPU 2

Here is a picture of just how big the 800D case actually is.. I have to say I din’t really think it would be that big.

 

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