My C70 build(s)

[St_Ides]

Started my first water loop back in November, and didn't quite like it, lines were too cluttered etc.....

Here's some specs of that system:

Case: Corsair C70 Vengeance
CPU: AMD FX8350
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990fx
RAM: Kingston HyperX Black Ed 16Gb (4 DIMMS)
GPU: MSI GTX 670 OC
SSD: Mushkin 60Gb SataIII X 2 in RAID 0
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm sata3Gb/s
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro 720 Modular PSU

Water Loop:
XSPC Raystorm CPU block with AMD hold down
XSPC Slim High Density 240mm Rad
XSPC RS120mm rad
XSPC Black Chrome compression fittings
XSPC Acetal Dual bay Res and pump combo for single Laing D5
EK-FC670 GTX CSQ Acetal Full cover block
EK-FC CSQ Single Bridge
EK-FC670 CSQ Backplate




Sorry for the quality of the pics.....camera phone.....

[St_Ides]

So for Christmas someone was kind enough to get me a second GPU and well couldn't pass up the opportunity to upgrade the original build and clean up the rats nest i created!

Here's some specs of the upgraded system:

Case: Corsair C70 Vengeance
CPU: AMD FX8350
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990fx
RAM: Kingston HyperX Black Ed 16Gb (4 DIMMS)
GPU: MSI GTX 670 OC X 2 in SLI
SSD: Mushkin 60Gb SataIII X 2 in RAID 0
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm sata3Gb/s
PSU: Corsair TX850M

Water Loop:
XSPC Raystorm CPU block with AMD hold down
XSPC Slim High Density 240mm Rad
XSPC Slim Triple RS360 Rad
XSPC Black Chrome compression fittings
ekwb 90degree high flow rotary adapter black nickel
ekwb 45degree high flowrotary adapter black nickel
EK-FC670 GTX CSQ Acetal Full cover block X 2
EK-FC670 CSQ Backplate X 2
EK-FC CSQ Bridge Dual 3 slot Serial
EK-D5 X-RES 140 CSQ - Acetal D5 Top-Reservoir Combo with Laing D5

[Father Fuzzy]

Some nice parts in that amd system

to the Damode Zone

big difference to the updated pics

[bungwirez]

"Beware the Ides of March"

Welcome aboard buddy! Thanks for sharing.
Really like that "floating" rez works perfect

[scaccima]

Nice rig!!!!

Welcome to the forum too!!!

[Hooded]

It surely does look like a sweet rig.
The EK-X-Res looks much better than that XSPC bay res did for sure.
The Tube runs look nicely cleaned up as well.
to the Daz Zone.

[DazMode]

OH, wow huge improvement with second revision! Literally day and night.

[Bartacus]

OH, wow huge improvement with second revision! Literally day and night.

THIS! Great job on the tubing clean up! Looks so much better. I'm due for that clean up myself!

[St_Ides]

yeah I'm still not satisfied with the line coming from my gpu to the bottom rad.....looks like it could be a bit shorter, as well with the line going into the res from that rad, but that one I needed to be a little longer so I could fill the thing up.....I'm thinking the res could come down an inch to the next set of holes on that drive bay to both evenly fill the whole area and hide some of those cables and allow for me to fill the thing without pulling the whole res outta the case (should shorten and straighten that inlet tube just enough)......also thinking of going with some colored tubing as I can visibly see some clouding in the clear stuff I'm using.....any thoughts or suggestions?

[bungwirez]

Ides buddy. you make any new changes?

got my own C70 build in the works,
like what you've done here.

[St_Ides]

Added a custom window to to the case, that fan grill wasn't doing any justice!





Next I need to lower that res to the bottom of that hdd cage which will shorten and clean up the other lines I think as well should fill the void below the res and hide the excess PCI-E cables. I was thinking about going with some blue tubing, so gotta put an order in with our friend Daz first!

[Father Fuzzy]

Looks great

Was the window a mod kit?

[Hooded]

Window looks great.

[St_Ides]

No I picked up a piece of plexi glass from Home Depot, cut it down to 31.5cm x 33.5cm and used the existing window as a template to drill the holes!

This is the sheet I used, needed to still use washers to get it to fit in the end

[St_Ides]

Upgraded the cpu block to DazMode Special Edition - Universal CPU Block Added some blue tubing, in the end had the perfect amount ordered, but screwed up a couple of cuts and was shy by a mm or two on the last line but thankfully had some clear lying around to fill in, I think it works....and last but not least dropped that res so it covered up the empty space just below it and hid the cable management grommet above the bottom rad.....