Watercooled PC

[ethelsia]

Greetings all

I'm building my first watercooled pc currently and I'm blogging about it if you are interested It's not finished yet, but quite some stuff to read and see and hopefully quite entertaining as well..

http://www.cyberads.ch/watercooling/s01 ... stination/

Not sure if I'm allowed to post it here so mods feel free to delete the post, no harm done hopefully This is my personal server, no adds no popup crap, just plain wordpress.

Cheers,
Alex/Ethelsia

[Ashardis]

Thanks for taking the time to explain that the site isn't some ad-based thing!! The build really looks awesome!

[Ashardis]

Also, Ethelsia .. wow - THAT hardware!!!!

I am really wondering why you're bothering with the 3x4TB drives in your gaming PC.. if you plan to save crucial data on them or movies that need to be accessible from elsewhere in the house, you would be much better served by getting a nice NAS case for them - this would also mean your big rig wouldn't have to be on 24/7

[ethelsia]

Thanks Ashardis, much appreciated Yea, I got a qnap NAS and that 3x4tb's are going to be the mirror of it, also need the pc for work/programming/other than gaming and to watch Cohh Having a backup of the NAS since I lost all my stuff by having 2 discs fail in the NAS in rapid succession once, before I could replace the defective one (Raid5, one disc can fail and be rebuilt).

[Ahven1]

Ethelsia that is one beast of a machine !!!! /drool

[Ashardis]

Thanks Ashardis, much appreciated Yea, I got a qnap NAS and that 3x4tb's are going to be the mirror of it, also need the pc for work/programming/other than gaming and to watch Cohh Having a backup of the NAS since I lost all my stuff by having 2 discs fail in the NAS in rapid succession once, before I could replace the defective one (Raid5, one disc can fail and be rebuilt).

Ok, then it makes a LOT more sense to me.. and on loosing 2 disks at the same time

[ethelsia]

Thanks Ahven1 My wife is still wondering when I'm going to burn down the house and/or flood the neighbourhood

Yea Ashardis that was ugly, and they were even WD blacks 24/7 disks, oh well shiat happens

[Ahven1]

I dont know much about NAS but woudnt WD Red's be better for NAS use ? Well with so much cooling the more likely scenario is a small flood.
Looked at the sneak peek picture and think it would have looked nicer if you went from CPU block to radiatior to GPU block tho thats just a personal opinion.
Wish i had money to spent on a custom loop like this also like the awsome little detail with the T-line that willl make draining the beast much easier.

Good luck filling it up when you finnish the tubing hope no leaks pop up !

[ethelsia]

Thanks Ahven1 No clue on the hdd's, the blacks have 5 years warranty and the red's 3 years, not sure if that is an indicator for robustness in this case. I also had pretty good experience with some green "cheap" ones I used in another pc, never failed, but no 24/7 use. Thanks for the idea with the loop, going to look at it, the tubing is not done yet (lazy me) and still in the "design" phase

[Ahven1]

Planning/desing phase is everything!

[ethelsia]

[kelcatrell]

Any update on the build? How did it turn out?

[ethelsia]

Thanks for asking Kel, unfortunately I didn't have time to continue due to too much work (and ESO beta and launch lol). I will continue shortly and post an update.

greetings,
Alex

[ethelsia]

Greetings all

Finally after too much work and sickness I found the time and motivation/strength to continue the water cooling build, its been ages laying around unfortunately.

http://www.cyberads.ch/watercooling/s02e01-YouTube

Happy gaming all /wave
Cheers
Sia

[ethelsia]

Well met again!

Almost done now

http://www.cyberads.ch/watercooling/s02 ... d-is-near/


Cheers
Sia

[theskuggi]

That is one sexy machine! Well done sir!

[ethelsia]

thank you sir!

[BadDawGe]

not to knock your machine, it's damn nice... but I had nothing but problems with my subzero six liquid cooling machine, lost two pumps in less than a year. They are a bitch to drain and remove and replace. The second once caused a fire in the machine. I was luck it burned out on its own and didn't take my house with it. Be very cautious that if a pump burns out you turn off the machine. Just check your levels often.

[ethelsia]

ouch! you must have had really bad luck with that pc
I never let it run when I'm not present, too risky indeed.

[BadDawGe]

yeah.. I'm bad about leaving my machines on 24/7 365... I reboot when Wind0ze forces me to--that's about it.