mega_option101

Very nice!!!!!!!!! keep up the great work

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Syrillian

.... indeed!

Mmm! Mm! ...gotta love that toned down full frontal nudity on the Raptor. That looks so sweet.

Nice mixture of copper - a psuedo "hard-wired" loop - very cool.

Your mods always give me the warm and fuzzies.

...more please.

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Wow, I actually really like the RaptorX in the front like that. Surprisingly it fits really well.

CyberDruid

MUaahahahhHa
I have some brackets to make today and I need to figure out the fan controls.

Still up in the air as to what to do about that. The cleanest look might be just three controllers One for the top two one for the back two and one for all 4 on the rad.

It really does not make sense to have the 4 rads fans individually adjustable.

That would get it down to 3 rheostats.

THere's a heavy aluminum grill beside the PSU that I am thinking of replacing with a piece of acrylic and filling with rheostats. And maybe a couple of switches.

And I am going to see if I can acheive a nice amber light effect on the Raptor...like a tube amp color...

QM mentioned something about monitoring temps...so I am thinking about how that should look.

I have some very nice analog temp gauges but they have white faces...not sure how that would look even if I trapped them in a black facing.

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lavieinjuste

put some lighting to the gauges with leds. like you were talking about the amber tube amp look, use that.

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Criss

build looks amazing CD

I'm wondering though, how will the loop flow having 3 inlets like that? I'd love to see some kind of flow metering before each inlet on the 3 blocks to see if any of them suffer by having all 3 together like that, rather than having the regular inlet-outlet-inlet-outlet style of loop. I know the pump is plenty strong to drive the loop, it's just one of those nagging questions in the back of my brain.

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No clue but with the 480 and MCP 655 I really do not think it is critical.

What I found with my metering manifold that had three outlets is the one furthest from the inlet had the most pressure.In In this case that would be the CPU. Also the GPU loop is going to be more restrictive because of the single outlet so to speak (as they T into a single port on the res) so I would think it will cause more flow for the CPU which is what I am going for.

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Sounds great. Look forward to seeing the finished product. Now go update the first page with all those reserved posts

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CyberDruid

I'll do that once I have the blocks mounted on the 8800 GTS OCs.

The only parts I am still waiting for are the GPU block and sinks for the second card we added to the build.

That will be a considerably more entertaining and give me time to take better shots and cull some of the ones already posted.

This is is just a test layout. There is much to be done including modifying the res again some more for a fill tube so the rig can be safely serviced without a big hassle later. But first a word from our sponsor...we'll be back after this important message.

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I really have an appreciation for how hard it is for a single working parent. With the Wife at school a couple of days in a row I hav been run ragged

I did manage to make a little headway once th youngun's were tucked away.


Cutting some aluminum for the brackets.


I bought this vise for myself for a birthday present and put it right to use


God I love having a shop


My poor drillpress needs some love.


A couple of custom MCP655 brackets...they took a few tries to get right


Trimming the corners on the radiator bracket


Shaping the bracket and rounding the edges


Drilling the rad bracket


Polishing the brackets


World of difference



heh


Using my Close Quarters drill


Test fit of the bracket.


Test fit of the pump.




Custom porting the MicroRes for FilPort and Supply.


Leak testing.


Ready for final installation.


All tubing to barb connections are secured with stainless steel pinchclamps,


Pump is Isolated from the chassis with Silicon grommets.

Might as well fit this while the panels are off.


SATA DVD Burner...State of the Art Baby.


At this point I am wating to hear from QM whether to mount a Filport up top on the case or too secure it internally. A FilPort is a must as the res is so low. I think keep th FilPort loose and hidden inside whould be best. This way the case can be laid on it's side and the rad anpump and block can fill and pres the air out th highest point..which would be the MicroRes.

Once I get that rsolved I will be ready to mount the motherboard and GFX cards and continue laying out the loop.

Once the loop is configured I will leaktest using PrimoChill with a spare jumpered PSU.

I still need to work out how I am going to deal with the fans. I have a few ideas kicking around. I was thinking about using just two 5 Watt rheostats (which I have on hand) or 6 Silverstone controllers and pairing the top fans and rear case fans and running each rad fan individually (meh) or using a pair of modified SunBeam controllers (which I have on hand) and have 8 controllers one for each fan...which I kind of like.

If I can work out a custom non LED panel with 8 knobs that might be pretty tasty.

We'll see, Mom is home and I can head out to the shop without fear of catastrophe...

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