SLI or Crossfire WC set up

[mhouck]

So I took the leap did the WC thing and love it. My temps dropped 28C on load from my after market air h/s. I don't plan on upgrading anything else for a while except a GPU block for my GX2.

With that being said I know that the placement of my pump/res being mounted on the bottow of my case is not ideal. I definitely can't put in a second GPU with it being where it is. Anybody with crossfire/sli, where do you have yours mounted?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: mhouck
So I took the leap did the WC thing and love it. My temps dropped 28C on load from my after market air h/s. I don't plan on upgrading anything else for a while except a GPU block for my GX2.

With that being said I know that the placement of my pump/res being mounted on the bottow of my case is not ideal. I definitely can't put in a second GPU with it being where it is. Anybody with crossfire/sli, where do you have yours mounted?

pics?

 

[mhouck]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: mhouck
So I took the leap did the WC thing and love it. My temps dropped 28C on load from my after market air h/s. I don't plan on upgrading anything else for a while except a GPU block for my GX2.

With that being said I know that the placement of my pump/res being mounted on the bottow of my case is not ideal. I definitely can't put in a second GPU with it being where it is. Anybody with crossfire/sli, where do you have yours mounted?

pics?

I need to take some. I just finished my loop last night. I don't have the new resevoir and pump you suggested in my other thread yet. Waiting for the stimulus check at the end of this month. I'll get some put pics up this evening.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: mhouck

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: mhouck
So I took the leap did the WC thing and love it. My temps dropped 28C on load from my after market air h/s. I don't plan on upgrading anything else for a while except a GPU block for my GX2.

With that being said I know that the placement of my pump/res being mounted on the bottow of my case is not ideal. I definitely can't put in a second GPU with it being where it is. Anybody with crossfire/sli, where do you have yours mounted?

pics?

I need to take some. I just finished my loop last night. I don't have the new resevoir and pump you suggested in my other thread yet. Waiting for the stimulus check at the end of this month. I'll get some put pics up this evening.

would need pics to see what you mean.

Also you know the GX2 puts out more heat then an overclocked quadcore. Having 2 is kinda scary if you ask me. Need to know what rad size you have as well. I hope its a large class.

 

[mhouck]

First WC Loop

Sorry it took so long to get this up. G/F went out of town with our camera.

Anyway, You can see how the pump/res are right on the GX2. It is in the top most pci 2.0 slot and the x48 has a second one under it. Now this is just for practicle purposes as I am not planning on another GX2. But in the future I might go crossfire and dont want to choose between another card and wc system as I know others have done it.

Since it's taken me so long to post this, I think I have a solution. The Radiator is in the front of the case on the other side of the optical drive cage. I'm thinking about moving the radiator to the bottom of the cage and moving the pump/res to the front leaving more room for additions. However, the draw back to that is the GX2 is going to be feeding out heat very near the radiator so this is not a perfect solution.

Any thoughts. BTW, forgive the power cords in the photo, I'm working on the tying those down better too.

 

[aigomorla]

you wont have room anywhere. :[

i didnt expect you to have such small space at the bottom.

 

[mhouck]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
you wont have room anywhere. :[

i didnt expect you to have such small space at the bottom.

I am buying ddc 3.2/ xpsc combo you mentioned. It's my understanding that they connect vertically so that should allow more space and flexibility in its positioning. I dont think its entirely a lost cause. Is your persephone WC'ed? If so do you have a pic in the gallery?

 

[WoodButcher]

What case is this and how many drives are there?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: mhouck
If so do you have a pic in the gallery?

Persephone is not a normal computer.

On this forum, i think she ranks in the top 1%.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0900.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1088.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_1090.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0935.jpg

IO sector is also nuked overkill.
4 Raptors i Raid0.
And im picking up an Areca 1680ix Controller.

 

[mhouck]

Originally posted by: WoodButcher
What case is this and how many drives are there?

It's a Thermal Take Armor. I have the one with the Liquid Cooling System. That is what's causing the problem. The included pump/res is connected side by side so it takes up nearly the width of the case. I'm slowly replacing the system that came with it. I already have the dtek cpu block and have ordered the xpsc res.

I only have one DVD-RW/CD drive and the hard drive is in a seperate cage mounted above the MoBo.

I think I can take out the lower HD cage the radiator is attached to and lay it flat on the base of the chassis and put the pump where the lower HD cage is currently. I'm not very happy with that solution though because the GX2 blows out hot air right on where I would put the radiator.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: mhouck

Originally posted by: WoodButcher
What case is this and how many drives are there?

It's a Thermal Take Armor. I have the one with the Liquid Cooling System. That is what's causing the problem. The included pump/res is connected side by side so it takes up nearly the width of the case. I'm slowly replacing the system that came with it. I already have the dtek cpu block and have ordered the xpsc res.

I only have one DVD-RW/CD drive and the hard drive is in a seperate cage mounted above the MoBo.

I think I can take out the lower HD cage the radiator is attached to and lay it flat on the base of the chassis and put the pump where the lower HD cage is currently. I'm not very happy with that solution though because the GX2 blows out hot air right on where I would put the radiator.

i dont know if this will help you or not.

But here is how i did my old armor.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0397.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0399.jpg

 

[WoodButcher]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

i dont know if this will help you or not.

But here is how i did my old armor.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0397.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0399.jpg

There ya go! Keep in mind the fans are blowing front to back, the heat from your vid card ill be drawn away from the rad in front. If you put the vid on water you will want more rad.

 

[aigomorla]

forgot to mention theres a pa120.2 up front.

 

[mhouck]

Thanks for the ideas. It would be nice to have a GPU that was shorter than my board. I'm going work on pulling the lower HD cage out to give me a bit more room.

 

[WoodButcher]

Is this your case w/o the water?

edit- like this?

 

[mhouck]

Yes but the drive cage in the front is set up differently. Armor User Manual

Page 10 and 11 show the cage and how the radiator is hooked up to it.

 

[WoodButcher]

Cuts here would remove the upper section and leave the rest useable, you want to cut the bottom but that was the only pic. I would prefer to make a bracket to hold the rad rather than cutting up the stock so you can go back if you want to sell but you have lots of options.

 

[mhouck]

Thanks Butcher. I'm going to go with brackets and just take the whole cage out. There is a second HD cage above the mobo next to a 120mm fan and another 90 mm fan mounted at the vent in the top of the case. And there is the plus of having the original parts all in one piece for resell.

 

[WoodButcher]

:thumbsup:

Future upgrades might include radiator replacement, I really don't know how well that rad will perform. Aigo would be better informed on that for sure. After your all setup look for people running similar to compare with, I have a couple of old TT rads, one still being used on an old P4. They may have changed but mine needed high rpm fans to work at all, being right in front the noise would bug me.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

A pa120.2 would support a 9800GX2 just fine but, not a cpu/gpu combo loop. Given that you already have the PA120.2 and a pump, I would recommend using the XSPC restop for your cpu loop along with the pa120.2 and your d-tek and creating a second loop using your existing thermaltake pump and a new radiator, something in the arena of a swiftech MCR-220 for the 9800GX2. I would absolutely recommend upgrading the pump but, given the cost of the 9800GX2 block alone, I have a feeling budgetary concerns may prohibit this at first.

 

[aigomorla]

well theres a few reasons why ive been keeping quiet.

He has the LCS kit, and i wanted to see how far he was willing to mod it.

Also i dont like the intigrated LCS kit. Its very selective, and its hard to swap parts out.


Your LCS wont handle 9800GX2. The radiator is not even the norm in h2o cooling.

TT used there old style radiators in that setup. Round tubes. This was latter phased out to flat tubes, but TT made another stupid mistake of going alu.

I believe you have the round copper tube style radiator.

Your gonna need to be willing to ditch that oem tt rad and drop in an aftermaket, as well as do some big mods to you case.

The fist that needs to go is the rad housing up front. There is no radiator minus a couple crap ones that could fit there without any moding.

 

[mhouck]

Thanks for the ideas. I am very willing to mod, I already replaced the cpu block and have the reservoir. I'm ordering the ddc pump. I haven't done anything with the brackets for the radiator yet and based on Aigo's response it's a good thing. I was already planning on replacing the fans but it looks like I ought to look at swapping the whole radiator out and running it on the base of the chassis with the pump near the front and get the gpu block too to eliminate the hot air blowing onto the radiator.

So I need to put roughly $250 into radiator, fans and gpu block.

Will that be enough or just for a single 9800gx2/cpu loop?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: mhouck
Thanks for the ideas. I am very willing to mod, I already replaced the cpu block and have the reservoir. I'm ordering the ddc pump. I haven't done anything with the brackets for the radiator yet and based on Aigo's response it's a good thing. I was already planning on replacing the fans but it looks like I ought to look at swapping the whole radiator out and running it on the base of the chassis with the pump near the front and get the gpu block too to eliminate the hot air blowing onto the radiator.

So I need to put roughly $250 into radiator, fans and gpu block.

Will that be enough or just for a single 9800gx2/cpu loop?

i really cant answer this question for you.

As i have no experience with a 9800GX2. I dont know how hot those guys are, but if its slightly hotter then my overclocked 8800GTs, as long as your not goign for uber low temps, or uber high overclocking, a single large class rad should be fine with low restriction.