Fractal Design Define S First Water Build

[nass]

what are the chances your not making good contact to the cpu, your vid temp seem in check, means your rads are working

[kabe0]

Ok I will try your suggestion tonight and see what comes of it. Do you think switching the fans on the 240mm raid around would be a good idea to make them pull air in?

[Hooded]

The 120 and the 240 should be enough depending on how hard you like to run your fans. Adding to a second 240 rad would allow you to run your fans at lower speeds/quieter. Even a single fan in the cases bottom pulling air in would greatly help to drop temp inside case.

[kabe0]

Yea I think my mistake was having not enough air coming into the case. Oh well live and learn

I will try swapping the fans around. The bad news is I set the radiator too high for it to work well as an intake.
Good news is the temperatures are not killer so I can do it a few weeks or a month from now and still have a system to use.

If I had a 3 slot raid on the top pushing out and a 2 slot raid pulling in would that be sufficient?

[Hooded]

Looking at your fans step I don't really see anyplace drawing fresh air into the case. You can't maintain a cool system only pulling air through rads. ou still need a good airflow.
Adding a couple fans to the bottom of the case as intakes would help drop your temps greatly. Or even just reverse the flow of air so your drawing air into the case on the front rad would also improve your temps. The air coming across your rad will only increase a couple degree's above the rooms ambient temp. Also try opening one of the top air vents if you wish not to add fans or change they're positions.

[Ryoku]

Ideally you'd want Rad on the top of your case exhausting since hot air rises, along with the rear case fan/rad. Then air intaking from the front/bottom of course you can have a rad in the front/bottom as well but you'd still want them as intakes.

[kabe0]

I think I might change my loop a bit. The processor runs at about 65-74 deg and it's not overclocked. Graphic card is usually around 45 or lower. I think the reason is the front radiator is not able to push enough air out of the front of the case.

My solution is to swap out the single radiator on the side and replace it with a two slot radiator on the top. If anyone else as any other ideas let me know!

[Moogly]

Some pretty awesome tube bending! System look great!!

[kabe0]

Thanks! Yea the case was awesome to work with! Lot's of room and I did not need to even use a drill which was nice for a first time build. I would definitely recommend for anyone making a water cooling case for the first time and does not want a disk drive. I did not show the back but it was super easy to wire and had lots of room to manage cords as well as good strap placements.

Having a radiator on the top however is very tight. The larger problem is once you install a radiator it becomes very hard to remove the ram (as the radiator sites in front of it). I decided against having one on the top as I wanted to make the case as quiet as possible.

[10e]

Tubing turned out very nicely. Way to jump in straight to acrylic an kick butt!

I really like this case. If I didn't already have the R5 I definitely would have looked into getting one of these. The fact that you could put a 420mm radiator in the top in push/pull (with short heatsink RAM) is very nice.

I also like no optical slots. Watercooling takes priority.

[Ryoku]

Nice, I'm going to go Red to match the leds/colors on my RoG Mobo. But no matter what you should clean your loop every year or so (well everyone says that but whether they do or not is another story =P)

[kabe0]

Looks great, you going to add any color to the coolant?

I think I am not going to add any mostly due to the increase in maintenance needed to maintain the loop. However, I may get that IceDragon cooling at some point in the future (maybe a year from now) if things are going well then I could have white coolant.

Not a spectacular shot below but an image of the full case.




I am probably going to be building a water system for a friend who wants one. So maybe he will want his to have some colour haha.

[nass]

looking good

[Ryoku]

Looks great, you going to add any color to the coolant?

[DrewS66]

Really nice build.