Overclock.net › Forums › Cooling › Water Cooling › 580 Classified Proposed WC Build
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

580 Classified Proposed WC Build

post #1 of 9
2/23/12 at 11:20am
Thread Starter 

WCsetup.jpg

I need some help in redesigning my WC build, above is my current and proposed build. 

 

I'm looking for input on what kind of split I should use. 

Bitspower G1/4" Matte Black Y Block

 

I have my pump inside a reservoir, but I'm going to remove that and just leave the vertical reservoir with the pump. 

This build mostly has compression fittings, but I might get burbs for the splits. 

 

I use PrimoChill PrimoFlex PRO LRT Tubing 1/2"ID 3/4"OD with 1/8" Wall - UV Green with these Bitspower Ultimate G 1/4 Thread 1/2" ID x 3/4" OD Compression Fitting (BP-CPF-CC5). However, it's a bit hard tightening them, similar with barbs...

 

I have drain area, but I didn't include it in the picture, its is in the middle of the cpu and the vertical reservoir.

Koolance G1/4" Brass Inline Drain Valve Fitting (VLV-XTSPL)

 

Look at my gallery for more information...

 

Let me know your thoughts,


Edited by grimreaper01 - 2/23/12 at 11:26am
Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #2 of 9
2/23/12 at 11:48am
Not being facetious, honestly, but why do you want to split them? This is not a troll question, I'm actually really trying to understand why this is better than doing them all inline.
Selkies
(12 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
i7-2600k Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Unlocked 6950 8GB G. Skill 9-9-9-28 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2 x Seagate Momentus XT Hybrids RX240+Swiftech 120, Komodo 6900 Windows 7 Pro 28" 1920x1200 
MonitorPowerCaseMouse
QNIX 2560x1440 IPS Corsair TX650W Modded Corsair 500R Logitech G700 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Selkies
(12 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
i7-2600k Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Unlocked 6950 8GB G. Skill 9-9-9-28 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2 x Seagate Momentus XT Hybrids RX240+Swiftech 120, Komodo 6900 Windows 7 Pro 28" 1920x1200 
MonitorPowerCaseMouse
QNIX 2560x1440 IPS Corsair TX650W Modded Corsair 500R Logitech G700 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #3 of 9
2/23/12 at 11:50am
Thread Starter 

@tehsciz

I'm thinking about splitting them to avoid mixing warm water with cool water. 

 

Are you referring to both splits or one of them?

 

I thought it might help in lowing the temps...

Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #4 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:02pm
The issue i see is water takes the path of least resistance: If the cpu block has more restriction, which they usually do, more, if not most, of the flow is going to go through the gpu block, increasing temperatures on the cpu. Parallel only works well if you have two paths of equal resistance, like two gpu blocks in sli. I'd just put them in series and let the gpu get a tad bit warmer.
archnemesis
(11 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Evga 790i digital zotac 580 gtx OCZ  
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
OCZ  OCZ SSD WD green Ol' WD 
CoolingPowerCase
Danger den MC-TDX loop Corsair 1000-hx NZXT nemesis 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
archnemesis
(11 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Evga 790i digital zotac 580 gtx OCZ  
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
OCZ  OCZ SSD WD green Ol' WD 
CoolingPowerCase
Danger den MC-TDX loop Corsair 1000-hx NZXT nemesis 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #5 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:04pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by grimreaper01 View Post

@tehsciz
I'm thinking about splitting them to avoid mixing warm water with cool water. 

Are you referring to both splits or one of them?

I thought it might help in lowing the temps...

Not a good idea, the GPU block has a different amount of restriction than the CPU block so you're going to have tons more flow going through the less restrictive block, ruining temps on the more restrictive block. Generally with these types of things, you should just do what other people are doing, because though their loops might be simple and cookie cutter, they are like that for a darn good reason wink.gif Just go with everything serially, computer components don't put out enough heat for such rapid (turbulent) flow to really need to worry about little things like loop order.
lil nugget
(12 items)
 
16Tb FreeNAS
(8 items)
  		 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 3770k Maximus V Gene SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16gb Samsung Green 30nm 
Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveCooling
Samsung F3 WD Caviar Green Intel 320 Noctua NH-D14 
OSMonitorPowerCase
Win7 Pro SyncMaster SA700 120hz AX 650 Silverstone TJ08-e 
View all
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Celeron G530 Intel BOXDH67CLB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 hd2000 (Headless System) 16gb samsung 30nm 
Hard DriveOSPowerCase
seagate barracuda green 7200 2tb (x8) RAID 10 FreeNAS 8.2 corsair cx430 rosewill challenger u3 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
lil nugget
(12 items)
 
16Tb FreeNAS
(8 items)
  		 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 3770k Maximus V Gene SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16gb Samsung Green 30nm 
Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveCooling
Samsung F3 WD Caviar Green Intel 320 Noctua NH-D14 
OSMonitorPowerCase
Win7 Pro SyncMaster SA700 120hz AX 650 Silverstone TJ08-e 
View all
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Celeron G530 Intel BOXDH67CLB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 hd2000 (Headless System) 16gb samsung 30nm 
Hard DriveOSPowerCase
seagate barracuda green 7200 2tb (x8) RAID 10 FreeNAS 8.2 corsair cx430 rosewill challenger u3 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #6 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:08pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cwalster View Post

The issue i see is water takes the path of least resistance: If the cpu block has more restriction, which they usually do, more, if not most, of the flow is going to go through the gpu block, increasing temperatures on the cpu. Parallel only works well if you have two paths of equal resistance, like two gpu blocks in sli. I'd just put them in series and let the gpu get a tad bit warmer.

This is exactly what I was thinking, flow just won't be uniform with the split. And as far as mixing hot and cold water, that's really not an issue - the water moves so quickly that it pretty much homogenizes. Of course the water coming out of you CPU block is going to be warmer than the water that's coming out of the radiator, and if it was moving slowly this would be an issue, but you're only looking at, max, a few C higher at GPU (or CPU, whichever is second). Due to case restrictions I had to put a 120 between my CPU and GPU, otherwise I'd be running a 360 and laughing my way to the low temp bank regardless of the order. Yes, order does make a difference, but it's negligible. Overcomplicating thing generally doesn't fix problems, it makes new ones smile.gif
Selkies
(12 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
i7-2600k Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Unlocked 6950 8GB G. Skill 9-9-9-28 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2 x Seagate Momentus XT Hybrids RX240+Swiftech 120, Komodo 6900 Windows 7 Pro 28" 1920x1200 
MonitorPowerCaseMouse
QNIX 2560x1440 IPS Corsair TX650W Modded Corsair 500R Logitech G700 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Selkies
(12 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
i7-2600k Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Unlocked 6950 8GB G. Skill 9-9-9-28 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2 x Seagate Momentus XT Hybrids RX240+Swiftech 120, Komodo 6900 Windows 7 Pro 28" 1920x1200 
MonitorPowerCaseMouse
QNIX 2560x1440 IPS Corsair TX650W Modded Corsair 500R Logitech G700 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #7 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:09pm
+1 to what everyone else said too. Water will travel in the path of least resistance. From my experience of water cooling GPUs, you should keep in mind that your GPUs are build to take a higher temperature, and unless you play games or fold (or run some other GPU-intensive process) all day, your GPU will do fine if it runs at a bit high temp than normal. If you don't have the money or space to create a second loop, keeping the loop in series (as opposed to parallel) is much better because the video cards and CPU have different levels of restriction (CPU generally being more restrictive).
Cosmos S: Black Edition
(13 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Core i7 920 D0 @ 4.35GHz Asus Rampage II Extreme + NBMAX 2 x EVGA GTX 295 G.SKILL Trident 6GB 2000mhz 
Hard DriveOptical DriveOSMonitor
WD Caviar Black + OCZ Agility 120GB SSD Samsung External Blu-Ray Vista 64-Bit Premium / Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Acer H243H 24" @ 1920x1080 
KeyboardPowerCaseMouse
Logitech Classic Keyboard 200 Corsair HX1000W yes Razer Mamba 
Mouse Pad
QcK+ 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Cosmos S: Black Edition
(13 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Core i7 920 D0 @ 4.35GHz Asus Rampage II Extreme + NBMAX 2 x EVGA GTX 295 G.SKILL Trident 6GB 2000mhz 
Hard DriveOptical DriveOSMonitor
WD Caviar Black + OCZ Agility 120GB SSD Samsung External Blu-Ray Vista 64-Bit Premium / Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Acer H243H 24" @ 1920x1080 
KeyboardPowerCaseMouse
Logitech Classic Keyboard 200 Corsair HX1000W yes Razer Mamba 
Mouse Pad
QcK+ 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #8 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:10pm
Thread Starter 

@Cwalster

@kdon

@like30ninjas

 

1+ too all :D

 

Thank you all, just saved me some $$...

 

I'll follow that to the letter. 

 

Just an FYI, I'm a big gamer, folder and 3D model...


Edited by grimreaper01 - 2/23/12 at 12:13pm
Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
Strike X ST
(14 items)
  		  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 2600K EVGA E689 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 MEM 4Gx4|CORSAIR CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Westurn Digital 1T LiteOn XSPC Res, Pump, tubbing and others Windows 7 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
SYLVANIA Blackwidow Coolmaster 1200W Strike X ST 
MouseMouse Pad
Dell Mouse Razer Vespula 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
post #9 of 9
2/23/12 at 12:12pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by grimreaper01 View Post

@Cwalster
@kdon
@like30ninjas

1+ too all biggrin.gif

Thank you all, just saved me some $$...

I'll follow that to the letter. 

No problem!! Glad to help! Good luck with the build! biggrin.gif
lil nugget
(12 items)
 
16Tb FreeNAS
(8 items)
  		 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 3770k Maximus V Gene SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16gb Samsung Green 30nm 
Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveCooling
Samsung F3 WD Caviar Green Intel 320 Noctua NH-D14 
OSMonitorPowerCase
Win7 Pro SyncMaster SA700 120hz AX 650 Silverstone TJ08-e 
View all
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Celeron G530 Intel BOXDH67CLB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 hd2000 (Headless System) 16gb samsung 30nm 
Hard DriveOSPowerCase
seagate barracuda green 7200 2tb (x8) RAID 10 FreeNAS 8.2 corsair cx430 rosewill challenger u3 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
lil nugget
(12 items)
 
16Tb FreeNAS
(8 items)
  		 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 3770k Maximus V Gene SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 16gb Samsung Green 30nm 
Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveCooling
Samsung F3 WD Caviar Green Intel 320 Noctua NH-D14 
OSMonitorPowerCase
Win7 Pro SyncMaster SA700 120hz AX 650 Silverstone TJ08-e 
View all
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Celeron G530 Intel BOXDH67CLB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 hd2000 (Headless System) 16gb samsung 30nm 
Hard DriveOSPowerCase
seagate barracuda green 7200 2tb (x8) RAID 10 FreeNAS 8.2 corsair cx430 rosewill challenger u3 
View all
  hide details  
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Water Cooling
Overclock.net › Forums › Cooling › Water Cooling › 580 Classified Proposed WC Build