Mike431635

Couldn't think of any catchier title but this is my rig in all its glory. I attempted to capture bits and pieces of the build here and there so you can see everything I've done. I've had this idea since I first discovered the Bong Lovers Club thread, located here:

http://www.overclock.net/water-cooli...-56k-fail.html

I have a relatively small office where my fiance and I both need to use our computers concurrently. Wasn't working out when they were arranged in an "L" shape in the corner so I wanted to build a long double desk. And what better way to incorporate the bong than to put it INSIDE the desk? What I ended up with is an 8ftx2ft desktop, 29" high. I'll take some more pics tomorrow of the storage areas and stuff under the desk which allow us to finally put all our miscellaneous crap that was laying around all in one place.

And also, I apologize in advance for the pics. They were taken with my cell phone, Motorola ZINE. It has a 5mp Kodak camera built in but I'm not the best with any camera yet alone a cell phone.

I didn't get any pics of the desk going together after the pieces were cut, but this isn't a woodworking forum, so you get a few progress pics:

A good shot of the unfinished desk before I cut wire management holes and the bong hole. It's 3/4" birch:


And with one coat of Minwax dark walnut stain:


I later put two coats of Minwax fast-drying satin polyurethane, sanding in between coats, but you will see pics of the final finish later on.

A little shot of things to be used in the project:


And the behemoth:


And the rig before watercooling. Not completely together and looking its best, but I do love the Sunbeam ACTS tech station:


On to the waterblocks & redoing the TIM. I used OCZ Freeze because Arctic Cooling MX-3 wasn't available locally.

Visiontek 4870 stripped of the stock cooling solution:


Cleaned off the GPU and applied OCZ Freeze in a thin layer covering the top of the chip. I also put a dab on each memory chip:


Swiftech MCW60-4870 waterblock fitted. The extension for the vregs doesn't quite line up right but I reused a thermal pad from the stock cooler and it hits all of them sufficiently:


Motherboard with all the cooling off and TIM cleaned up. Notice the lapped D0 B-batch 920 I bought from NoodleGTS on these forums:


Close-up of the X58 northbridge. Tried to find one of my oooooold AMD processors to lay next to it cause thats exactly what it looks like:


Intel ICH10R southbridge:


Bottom of the Bloodrage heatpipe cooler:


OCZ Freeze applied where needed (I had to actually redo it cause I realized I hadn't put TIM on all the mosfets, but yes I did clean off the NB and reapply):


Blocks going on. Powdercoating on the GT-Z was done by our very own Frozen-Q and he did an AWESOME job:


Figuring out the loop:


Ok, now for the shower head. I bought a decent plastic one with adjustable settings at Home Depot for $8. I couldn't find a cheaper one anywhere. I've never actually seen pics of the drilled out restrictor but here's what I did. I don't have before pics but I popped the piece with the restrictor out, started with a smaller drill bit then worked myself up to a full 1/2".



Notice here the size of the hole compared to these fatboy 1/2" fittings:


Here's the shower head. I'm currently using the finer spray pattern and its a nice balance of noise and efficiency:


Notice here how I put the restrictor piece back in, attached a 1/2" barb with teflon tape, and liberally applied silicon to seal it up.



The reservoir is a Coleman cooler which I HATE carrying around at the beach packed full of Bud Light. I needed an excuse to buy something with wheels so here was my chance.

I hit up an aquarium supply store and after telling the owner what I was doing he was very eager to help me out. We found a large bulkhead fitting and a 1/2" barb which threaded into the outside perfectly. $12 later I was off to HD to buy the rest of my tools. Put a hole in the side with a hole saw, slipped it in, threaded the retainer ring on inside the tank, and silicon'ed the crap out of it. Used lots of teflon putting the barbed fitting on as well.








Also please note, I later had to drain the cooler after leak testing because the ONLY place it leaked was at the bottom of the bulkhead where I couldn't get enough silicon underneath. So I silicon'ed the crap out of every joint on the outside too. Hey, it's not ever coming off, right?

Here you can see how I cut the lid to allow refilling of the evaporated water. The larger side eventually got a 4.5" hole cut into it with a hole saw for the bong tube to go through, don't think I have pics of that though.





Test fitting the pump mount, before staining:




And now here is the completed setup under the desk, with the sanitary tee and Yate Loon fan + filter. The T-shirt will be removed in favor of duct tape when I go get some (soon). The fan is mounted by drilling 4 holes in the tee and using zip-ties to evenly secure the fan to the tee.



Completed setup. I need to shorten the tube going to the top of the bong a bit and secure it with zip ties to the bong. And FYI yes I was leak testing in the first pic, I was running a second PSU and was present the entire time so my hardware wouldn't get fried. Risky, I know, but I'm a daredevil:





The shower head sitting inside the tube. I need to get a fan grille and modify it so it can be centered in the tube and also higher in the tube:



My beautiful loop. I think it looks freaking AWESOME with all the red:





Here's a preliminary screenshot of my temps, need to start overclocking tomorrow Under load (Prime95 3+ hrs) I'm at 49C according to realtemp. These temps will come down when I move the shower head up and add substrate to the tube (more on that later, maybe nub will comment).



More pics soon and I am also taking requests. If you wanna see it I'll take a pic for ya. As long as I don't have to take my loop apart to do it lol

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Mike431635

Oh yeah, before anyone asks, I DID put OCZ Freeze on the CPU! Just didn't get a pic of that lol

I think I may need to reseat and use more paste.

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Naja002

Niiiice! Great looking setup...and, Yes, it does look very sweet with all of the red!

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ira-k

Pretty neat! Looks like a fun rig.... Thanks for all the pic's, let us know what kind of temp's you end up with once you get it all tweaked up, not that there bad now.

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vinzend

how did u apply it? a horizontal line in the middle or pea-grain size (something like that dont remember) ?

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nub

Your rig looks nice Mike. I think you have the shower head a little far in on the tower. Pulling it back up to the top may give better results. Have thread running re. i7 temps on water. So far have gotten some good responses. Hopefully over next couple days will have enough info for you to be able to use as 'typical' temps guide. Keep in mind also that reseats of your block may also help your temps a bit.
edit:
got to love the 'stealth bong' approach

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88EVGAFTW

NICE NICE, temps look good, very nice and low.

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nub

Actually Mike was concerned about his temps. Is the reason I posted that thread re. i7 temps, to get more feedback for him to judge his temps by.

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kurosu

Wow that is very awesome! You did a great job building that desk and your setup looks great!

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Jolly-Swagman

+1 Very impressive set-up indeed

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