Orange GT project

[bungwirez]

The bubbles keep getting sucked back through the loop by the pump, not escaping into the res.

I found slowing my pump (DDC 3.25) right down to around 3000 rpm 9volts allowed the bubbles to escape into the res better.

I've found that periodically opening your rez to the atmosphere can help too.
not sure if you can do that with this XSPC Tank Rez, maybe you have to power down first...

[DazMode]

Or you can stick temporary tube to fill port, so air get trapped there.

[MRDcanadian]

ya i can hear them go through the pump at times, there was allot of micro bubbles that was in my tubing the first day, now i cant see them. hopefully they merge into bigger ones as they are easier to get rid of. The way the rez i have is made, the inlet tub is pointed straight at the hole where the pump sucks in the water with a small gap so they are not easy to get rid off. i had to slow my vario D5 pump to the minimum so some of the bubble's wouldn't go back in the pump again and again. when i get my fans i'll probably try to get rid of them once more. thanks for the tip everyone the help is very appreciated

[MRDcanadian]

New order received and installed. will send pics as soon as i can get a good camera to take them.

6x Cougar Vortex PWM fans 120mm
2x cougar Vortex HDB fans 140mm
EK-CoolStream RAD XTC (140) - Single 140mm Radiator
DAZMODE SPECIAL: LED READY 120MM FAN SHROUD
Dual AMBER 5mm modder LED
Mayhems Pastel - Gigabyte Orange Concentrate
K - Dual VID Connector, Adjustable 2-3 Slot Spacing BLACK
Low Profile Stop Plug Fitting w/ Slot Head (Value Pack 4)
Custom Design RADGARD 360 - Black-Black Mesh
50mm Spacer Adapter Male/Female - Matt Black

i had some issues with the gpu blocks but it was fixed . installed the rear 140mm EK XTC rad with two cougar fans in push pull config. had to put both outside of the case to have room to pass the fittings in the pre-made holes on the Level 10 gt case. the air flow was terrible so while fixing my gpu block i switched them to push inside the case instead of outside as it was traditionally (now the pc doesn't sound like a jet starting lol). Something causing some noise when my fans on the 360 when they are at 100% not sure what that is though they do more then a good job at 3/4 of there power so i'll leave it for now. i had installed a 12" UV cathode at the top of my case in between the door and the fans of the radiator and, accidentally snapped it in two with my tum while holding the case sideways to chase bubbles . now all i need to worry about is some of the aesthetics of the case. planing to buy some black Carbon fiber vinyl to do some of the case. a black sticker to change the color of the back of my blue ray player, buy some amber LED to change the 200mm fans LED from blue unless, i can fit a led color controller in there as they changed color with the thermaltake controller so it should be possible. with time i'll mod the side panel. would like to make it a full window but i will have to see what "I" can work out as cutting metal is far from being my specialty and not sure how negatively it will affect my air flow. i would like to change the led in the power switch from blue to orange. may buy another SLI bridge so when maintenance time comes i can do a parallel setup for the gpu. possibly add some water tempature sensor and flow sensors. one thing i would like is to change my rez but that will have to wait, I love the look of the "FrozenQ Fusion Reservoir Rev.6 UV Amber though they are expensive.

with my 6 pwm fans at about 80% in an ambient room temp of 24c, here is the temps of the GPU after 1h of battlefield 3 multiplayer at max setting with an overclock of 100mhz (900mhz OC) on the gpu core with a 5% increase in voltage (managed by catalyst center).

gpu 1 -- usage :100 temp1: 45.0 , temp2: 44.0 ,temp3: 50.5

gpu 2 -- usage :96 temp1: 42.5 ,temp2: 41.5 ,temp3: 47.5

CPU temps is 60C after some prime 95 for 30min at stock speed(with intel turbo clocked at 3.8ghz) so i expect it can get a little higher.

still have some bubble in there. hoping that will go away with some time. i'll try to test both gpu and cpu with another software later

[MRDcanadian]

oh i forgot. if ek can make nicer blocks for my mobo i wouldn't mind doing that neither. they made 1 for my VRM but none for the south bridge and the one from XSPC is in nickel and doesn't really match my theme. i'll have to be patient on that one.

[Hooded]

Sound pretty awesome to me.

Hurry up and get a Camera man. The one on your phone not working LOL

[MRDcanadian]

it does but the camera suck, and second i took pics while leak testing and bubble chasing in my basement, poor lighting condition on top of it. they look like this.

[Hooded]

Camera sucks but the machine is looking good.

[MRDcanadian]

looking at this case and i am drooling

(http://www.ldcooling.com/shop/atx-hp...-interior.html)

[bungwirez]

Daz can bring one of those in for you. pretty sharp eh.

[MRDcanadian]

saw that yes. just dont wanna spend that much after buying my water cooling gear. that was an expensive built and it's not over yet. plus with the room for more rad i would simply be tempted to put more in it. my spouse would

p.s. they should do the colors in reverse. orange then some black .

[MRDcanadian]

Got a big piece Ordered for the built that should be in production and then making it's way to me. i should expect it in give or take a mth. from there i'll be able to to start focusing on a more Eye popping built. thanks dazmode for the special order . looking forward to showing it to you all.

[Father Fuzzy]

Looking forward to your eye popping goodies

[MRDcanadian]

just made a new order today to start preparing for the new stuff, still planing the upgrades/stuff required to the build that will be needed to complete my vision. a question for the experience , is there a point where you have to many radiators, blocks ect... (aka restriction) where a dual pump setup is "required"?

[bungwirez]

I've got just about as much blocks and rads and 90deg fittings as are possible.
and a dual DDC pumps - primarily for redundancy...
as you know one of my pumps burnt out a couple of months ago - a rare incident btw.
But having two DDC allowed me to keep the system running on one pump until replacements arrived.

So, I got away with a single DDC for nearly three weeks, no changes to performance at all.
Is there a point were it becomes manditory to go dual pump?
I really don't think so.