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I've made a few posts here and there thus far after finding this place. I got the itch for a new build recently and wanted to step up my water cooling system from an old barb and clamp system that I had. I was looking at the usual places (FrozenCPU, and Danger Den (who just closed shop), and thought there has to be somebody in Canada other than NCIX that could supply my needs. I was really happy to find this place and it's been a great experience thus far. It's nice knowing there's a place just down the road that I can order my parts and have them at my door within a day or two without nasty brokerage bills!
Anyways, I'll try and get some pics up over the next few weeks (it's Christmas and all).
Here's the build specs (so far)
Caselabs Magnum STH10
Intel 3570K
EVGA Z77 FTW
EVGA 680 GTX FTW+ 4GB SLI
EVGA Nex1500 PSU
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8) 1866...I might add 2 more matching sticks of 8 depending on stability). This board has had problems with 4 sticks apparently...we'll see.
Intel 520 480GB SSD
Corsair Force 3 180GB SSD
2 TB WD Green HDD
Auzentech Forte 7.1 PCIE soundcard
LG BR Writer
Cooling (so far)
Koolance 380I Block
XSPC RX480
Koolance RP-452X2 Bay Reservoir
2 D5 pumps in serial
Koolance CTR-CD12 display/controller
Lamptron FC8 fan controller
Bitspower silver compression fittings
Koolance QDCs, coolant temp sensor, flow sensor
Thermochill clear tubing 1/2 ID
Fesser Red
8 Corsair SP120 High performance fans for the rad (push/pull)
4 Corsair AF120 Quiet for the case
I don't plan to go liquid on the GPUs at this point as they're not reference design, and that sort limits my choices for blocks. I do plan to go liquid with them on the next gen cards. I have room for 2 more quad rads in the case and have a 2nd RX480 waiting to go in.
I just hooked it all up today after the leak testing and bleeding (no air bubbles whatsoever....dead silent
Just did a simple and quick OC to 4.6 with a 1.250 VCore and coretemp reports 24/32/32/29 as the idle temps. Prime95 gets it up to 57/67/66/60 at load. Coolant temp reported by the Koolance sensor plug is 25C at idle prior to entering the radiator, and 25.9C while running Prime95. I can't confirm how accurate the sensor is, but if it's true I'm pretty stoked about a 1C delta in the coolant. Mind you, that's with SP120s on full 2350RPM. If I turn them down to about 1/2 it's 27C. The Koolance flowmeter reports a 7.4LPM (1.95GPM) flowrate from the D5s (running at 5). I have a few awkward spots in my system that I will try to work out later, but I think that's pretty decent considering. Not sure how much the QDCs play into that either, but it's better than I thought it would be.
That's pretty much it for now. I've still got to tweak the BIOS and see what this bad boy will do. I'll try and get the pics up before the year is out, but in the meantime if anybody has any questions, lemme know!
I've made a few posts here and there thus far after finding this place. I got the itch for a new build recently and wanted to step up my water cooling system from an old barb and clamp system that I had. I was looking at the usual places (FrozenCPU, and Danger Den (who just closed shop), and thought there has to be somebody in Canada other than NCIX that could supply my needs. I was really happy to find this place and it's been a great experience thus far. It's nice knowing there's a place just down the road that I can order my parts and have them at my door within a day or two without nasty brokerage bills!
Anyways, I'll try and get some pics up over the next few weeks (it's Christmas and all).
Here's the build specs (so far)
Caselabs Magnum STH10
Intel 3570K
EVGA Z77 FTW
EVGA 680 GTX FTW+ 4GB SLI
EVGA Nex1500 PSU
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8) 1866...I might add 2 more matching sticks of 8 depending on stability). This board has had problems with 4 sticks apparently...we'll see.
Intel 520 480GB SSD
Corsair Force 3 180GB SSD
2 TB WD Green HDD
Auzentech Forte 7.1 PCIE soundcard
LG BR Writer
Cooling (so far)
Koolance 380I Block
XSPC RX480
Koolance RP-452X2 Bay Reservoir
2 D5 pumps in serial
Koolance CTR-CD12 display/controller
Lamptron FC8 fan controller
Bitspower silver compression fittings
Koolance QDCs, coolant temp sensor, flow sensor
Thermochill clear tubing 1/2 ID
Fesser Red
8 Corsair SP120 High performance fans for the rad (push/pull)
4 Corsair AF120 Quiet for the case
I don't plan to go liquid on the GPUs at this point as they're not reference design, and that sort limits my choices for blocks. I do plan to go liquid with them on the next gen cards. I have room for 2 more quad rads in the case and have a 2nd RX480 waiting to go in.
I just hooked it all up today after the leak testing and bleeding (no air bubbles whatsoever....dead silent
Just did a simple and quick OC to 4.6 with a 1.250 VCore and coretemp reports 24/32/32/29 as the idle temps. Prime95 gets it up to 57/67/66/60 at load. Coolant temp reported by the Koolance sensor plug is 25C at idle prior to entering the radiator, and 25.9C while running Prime95. I can't confirm how accurate the sensor is, but if it's true I'm pretty stoked about a 1C delta in the coolant. Mind you, that's with SP120s on full 2350RPM. If I turn them down to about 1/2 it's 27C. The Koolance flowmeter reports a 7.4LPM (1.95GPM) flowrate from the D5s (running at 5). I have a few awkward spots in my system that I will try to work out later, but I think that's pretty decent considering. Not sure how much the QDCs play into that either, but it's better than I thought it would be.That's pretty much it for now. I've still got to tweak the BIOS and see what this bad boy will do. I'll try and get the pics up before the year is out, but in the meantime if anybody has any questions, lemme know!
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