It's alive! OK, actually that's a little premature and hopefully I didn't just jinx it by typing that. How about "It's a loop!".
Welcome back guys!
Just in case anyone is wondering why the large disparity between the quality of these shots and the ones in my other build... I'm using my old D80 with crap glass here at the office - because I don't feel like lugging my gear back and forth, and I certainly don't want to leave my good gear at the office.
I'll probably bring the D750 in for a final 'modelling shoot' for this rebuild.
Yeah, I've never felt like as much of a wuss as I did after using that new primochill... I seriously had to ice down my forearm the first night because it was so knotted up! And although I didn't have any rum at the office (plus I rarely drink so probably having more than a single shot of rum would have been disastrous to the build and possibly my personal safety). I did however seek out some alcoholic inspiration of sorts during a few of my "thinking sessions" over pump placement...
Decided since this was going to be under the desk and once full probably close to 50 lbs. - putting a bunged drainport was a necessity... so despite it making things very tight up front I wanted to pull from the lower 240mm rad...
That seemed to go well, and I have a crapload of fittings since I'm doing hardline tubing and shiny fittings in my other build... but of course I didn't quite have enough.
Well, more accurately, my dual rotary G1/4 fitting was banged up all to hell!
So that seemed good and then I looked again at my pumps... and the space I no longer had to fit it at all...
Closeup with flash:
Yeah, that ain't gonna be cutting it I don't think... guess I'll be direct-connecting the pumps this time around, and hoping the vibrations aren't horrible. So I had to use that dual rotary on the back because I can't spin the pump on to the radiator anyway and I'll have to ditch the feet because otherwise I'll be running pump->1/2" tube->90 degree into tank - or even worse, a pump to dual 90 degree fittings to drop the elevation to the lower port.
Not that it would be the end of the world most likely... but I can't see adding meaningless restriction right off the bat.
So, I'll use the banged up fitting there and that's nice since that puts it in the back...
And I'll just sharpie the brass and call it good (may go back in with some black modelling paint later to make it look perfect).
Needed a little something to prevent too much vibration (although direct connection is going to have more regardless)... so a Walmart mousepad was sacrificed to make a mini-shoggy-sandwich. I guess in this case it's just bread since there's no room for any fillings in the sandwich.
You may also notice I had to trim back some of the heatshrink on my fan... it was too rigid to make the bends I need it to for the thick sleeved part to fit were it needs to go! I should have resleeved the whole thing and used black sleeving while I was at it.... with smaller individual sleeving on the last 10" to the pumps... but this is not going to be visible and I need this to be finished quickly or I'll never get going on my other build. Or at least, that's the excuse I'm going with... could be just because I'm too lazy to bother.
Unfortunately my good (non-scuffed that is) non-rotary dual G1/4 adapter would have worked great on my drain line... had I not been a complete idiot and left that for last!
With the pump in place and everything plumbed into the reservoir... there's now no room to spin the valve onto the radiator (handle hits pump bodies).
Again, I could have taken everything completely apart and redone it... but there has to be something that will let me not waste that 3 hours of work just to have a drain that's straight. I thought about using two runs of tubing with the valve in the middle... but I wanted the valve closer to the pump/rad area so there wouldn't be flex on the bay cover when turning it.
So... Old-ass SLI adapter to the rescue! Actually I used a shorter 1-slot one of these in my res-to-pump line as well as I initially had it on and then realized that I couldn't fit my optical drive which is a much as I burn backups to optical media (as well as other media) on a weekly basis here at the office. Don't even remember when I bought those shorties, but glad I got both sizes whenever that was!
You might also notice I did manage to get some sleeved power to the GPUs... I'd given up on that due to the proximity of the tube and the inflexibility of the four power bundles... but with some heavy 'training' it worked... need to order a few combs though as they aren't as easy to train in that position.
And then it was already 4am and I needed to clean up everything I'd spread around the conference room - as my ops manager gets nervous when she sees things like this:
Don't know why really considering that was supposed to be my office originally, we never have meetings since I basically forbid them in my presence, and no one ever comes to 'tour the office' which is what her main concern is... Like the biggest problem in that room would be a ton of hardware all over the place.... THAT HORRIBLE PICTURE IS THE
REAL F'N PROBLEM!!!
Anyway so today is another day and it's leak testing time!
I do hate leak testing in another room... every time one of the nightly reports starts printing I think I'm hearing water spraying all over the place and have to run in there in a panic!
However, so far all is well after 4 hours at full blast with both pumps.
Looks like someone forgot to clean out something...
Well I was planning on running Mayhems Part 2 through it and doing a few full loop flushes with distilled afterward - and I'll be putting white pastel back in it in the final fill anyway... but I hate stuff like that. I'm going to say it was a pocket in the rads but who knows.
Now I have to go sleeve all my airflow fans for the front of the case and do some much needed 'housecleaning' on the PSU side of things.
Cheers!
