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Hey All,

Its been 3 years since my first water cooled build which sadly has become too big for my newly renovated study

Before



After



With my current Magnum STH10 build



So i found the Core P5 a nice replacement



basically i will be doing a swap out (obviously ill have alot of spare parts) here is a list of what hardware i will be using:

Rampage IV extreme
3930K cpu
2 x GTX Titans Gigabyte OC (had 3 but one burnt out which is another reason to take her apart)
32gb of corsair 1866mhz ram
1TB samsung ssd and a 480gb corsair ssd
corsair AX 1200i PSU

i will update some more once i decide the extras.

Hope you all enjoy!!!
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This is the complete build, more shots on other pages


 
Discussion starter · #4 ·
I got so into it and forgot to take some photos, Here's most of the work done minus the radiator, pump and res.
i want to use one of the dual pumps so im going to have to do a little bit of drilling on the bracket that came with the case.


i will also be changing the cables to a different colour which i ordered with the custom configurator on cablemod.com


New coolant colour ordered from ek


I previously sanded and polished the mobo and ram water blocks to get rid of the frosted look, when i bought the titans i forgot to do this so i might do it now depending on time.
 
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I gotta say Demci filters are awesome. After 3yrs this is all the dust that ever got past the filters fans and on the radiators


So here are some pics of the drilled out pump bracket for my dual d5's



bent out one of the old brackets i had to give the pump a bit more support as it sags a little with my idea



So this is my idea, by using the res mount brackets to hold the back of the d5's it gives me enough clearance to use the d5 x2 kit in between the rad and power supply



Quite happy with the result



As you can see it "hangs" a little



If you can see the screw in the middle at the back plate thats where i used a flat bracket with a slight up bend to it so it doesn't look sagged. This is screwed in to the center of the pump kit.



Mounted the radiator with a push pull fan config, it will be sucking air from the back which im going to use one of me old Demci filters magnetized on the rear.

 
Discussion starter · #6 ·
This is the end result for a few days ( waiting on parts to come ) Criticism is welcome.



I want to get some fan grills for the front to cover the ugliness

not sure which one i want yet







Im also hoping to wall mount this into the corner of the room
 
Discussion starter · #11 ·
Update:

Cables are on their way, also ordered a custom grill for the ugly side of the fans:


back at work again so i didnt get much done, here are some pics of the pipes bent for the mobo,
Problem is i have E22 acrylic piping which the OD is 12mm and the monsoon pipe bending kit i have is for a 13mm OD, so when i bend the pipes they arnt perfect 90 deg angles which screws it up a bit.









 
Discussion starter · #14 ·
So the cables arrived today from Cablemods, Too bad im not home for another 12 days to start putting it all together
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I also received 2 new products from them for free!!!

A Sleeved Power cable and a sleeved Ethernet cable 2m long

 
Discussion starter · #17 ·
My Phone broke
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so i was unable to take any photos for the last few weeks to upload, used my old phone so the quality isnt as good.

Photos in order up to completion of build:

Sanding of the blocks





New cable mod cables attached now to the trick part of the piping



I nearly ran out of pipe with all the trial and error but here it is, all complete ready for leak testing























































 
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