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roid450

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GPU idles around 36ºC right now at 78ºF room temp. Used to idle around 61-64ºC and go to ~80ºC or less while gaming

Vid card OCd to 720/1480/1220(2440 mhz)

I ran out of hose but when I get more, I'm gonna move the water pump further down to get that long hose out the way running straight across the GPU from the radiator. I removed 2 of the 3bay HDD cages to make space for the plate that the pump is sitting on for now and had to remove a front fan as it would all fit right, I am gonna replace the fan once I get more line and move the pump down. I have also concluded that the Antec 1200 is almost too small :laugh: I sure coulda used another 3-4" of length and more room between the GPU and rails holding the 5.25 bays

I am very satisfied right now with the setup and have no complaints :D :D :D

a Guiness :beer: would set this off real well :thumbsup:

http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...atercooling/WC2003.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ooling/Lacrosse007.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...atercooling/WC2010.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...atercooling/WC2011.jpg

Bit of humor :laugh: :laugh:
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...atercooling/WC2008.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...atercooling/WC2009.jpg

Best :thumbsup:
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2007-1.jpg

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Got me some Vinyl tubing at home depot, 10ft for 4.15$

http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2009-1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2010-1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2011-1.jpg
 
PCTC2

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Nice rig roid450. You're lucky you have the 65nm version of the GTX260. I have the 55nm version and the GT200 sink doesn't fit. A bit of modding fixes that. :p. Congrats.

And BTW, You have plenty of room. You just need to do some modding. :laugh:
 
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Thanks, You can modify the sink to fit, look around, I believe overclock.net had pics of how to.

If the worst comes, I'll bust out the Sawz All and hack off my 5.25" drive bays :shock;
 
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Originally posted by: PCTC2
Originally posted by: roid450
Thanks, You can modify the sink to fit, look around, I believe overclock.net had pics of how to.

If the worst comes, I'll bust out the Sawz All and hack off my 5.25" drive bays :shock;
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You mean like this? http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9550/sl730632zd1.jpg

Haha. I did it a while ago. Still need to for the second GTX260...
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I think so, seems to work just fine, you don't really need the 26$ piece of alunum that "cools" the mem chips etc, you can jsut use the lil sink but those look ghett-O :thumbsdown:
 
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Yes I am using the stock palstic barbs, they work just fine.

Heres more pics as of today: I fixed the CPU hose that was too short and I was able to now move the pump lower in the case, I might end up moving it even lower down in to the Hard drive area, but it looks good right now.

Got me some Vinyl tubing at home depot, 10ft for 4.15$

http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2009-1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2010-1.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/alb...ercooling/WC2011-1.jpg

The tubing is made by Watts and similar to Clearflex, Tygon is still much nicer tho, I have Tygon, Clearflex, and now Watts tubing in the loop.
 
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AFAIk, every barb sold Ive seen on the water cooling sites is G1/4

I was skeptical at first of the Plastic barbs but they work perfect if tightened right and they seemt o hold the hose more firmly than the Chrome barbs. but Chrome looks so sickk :D
 
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thilanliyan

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Lol an Antec 1200 is too small??!!! I've fit a 2x120 and a 1x120 rad cooling a 4870 and Phenom, optical drive, 3 harddrives, and a soundcard into a Lian Li A05B (fairly small case) and it's all internal. You don't know how lucky you are with all the room you have. :)

http://i53.photobucket.com/alb.../thilan29/P3310090.jpg

PS. Don't laugh at my homemade shroud on the video card. :p

Oh and I think I've said it before but nice job with the window.
 
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Originally posted by: thilan29
Lol an Antec 1200 is too small??!!! I've fit a 2x120 and a 1x120 rad cooling a 4870 and Phenom, optical drive, 3 harddrives, and a soundcard into a Lian Li A05B (fairly small case) and it's all internal. You don't know how lucky you are with all the room you have. :)

http://i53.photobucket.com/alb.../thilan29/P3310090.jpg

PS. Don't laugh at my homemade shroud on the video card. :p

Oh and I think I've said it before but nice job with the window.
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DAMN :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: you really did stuff that case nice and tight :shocked:

I ws thinking of adding another rad to the loop. but don't really have much of an idea of how or where to do it, I could drill some new holes in the top but would rather not, or I could maybe fit one in the front of the case but the pump is already in the front :roll:
 
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thilanliyan

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Originally posted by: roid450
DAMN :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: you really did stuff that case nice and tight :shocked:
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Yes I certainly did :) ...actually I was going to add another vid card for Xfire but decided I didn't want to spend more money on my computer. I like clean lines so I wanted everything internal.

I actually had a P180 before and put the 2x120 rad at the top but yes I had to cut out part of the top. Why don't you want to drill the case? Moving the pump is probably the easiest thing to do so I'd do that if I needed to put something at the front.
 
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I dont really feel like it, plus if I put my rad in the front thats gonna make me take out the bottom HDD cage, i have 2 HDDs in there now :p
 
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