I'm not naming my system like some people do (or at least, I don't have a good name for it yet) but I have decided to undertake a project to rebuild my system in a new case with many new parts (keeping drives and RAM, all else is new within the last 6 weeks or so).  The motivation behind the project is to support SLI 780s and fully water cool the hottest components in the system, including CPU, graphics cards, and motherboard MOSFETs.  I will have one water cooling loop for the CPU and the motherboard, and a totally separate loop to cool the 2 graphics cards. In order to accomplish this, I have purchased the following parts and will be receiving them over the next few days:

 

Core components:

Corsair Obsidian 900D 

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 1200W

Intel Core i7 4770k

2x EVGA Geforce GTX 780 Superclocked (1 came with the standard cooler, other came with ACX cooler)

Asus Maximus VI Formula

G.Skill TridentX 8GB 2600MHz C10

 

 

Water cooling components:

Loop 1:

XSPC RX360 radiator (CPU + mobo, installed in top of case)

3x Corsair SP120 2350RPM fans in "push" configuration

XSPC dual 5.25" bay reservoir w/Alphacool VPP 655 variable speed pump

Primochill 7/16" ID/5/8" OD white tubing

XSPC/Bitspower mixed standard and rotary compression fittings

 

Loop 2:

Alphacool Nexxxos UT60 480 radiator (graphics cards, installed in bottom compartment on the left side)

8x Corsair SP120 2350RPM fans in "push/pull" configuration

Swiftech MCP35X w/XSPC reservoir top

Primochill 7/16" ID/5/8" OD white tubing

XSPC/Bitspower mixed standard and rotary compression fittings

 

 

 

Will post case pics and more info soon.    

 

 

I've got a name: Flaming Vampire.

 

HLJAMES

Interesting...

 

I'll keep my options open I think. Pics to come tomorrow!

LOL ... you must mean Digital Storm:

 

Vanquish

Bolt

Virtue

Enix

 

or CyberPowerPC

 

Black Pearl

Gamer XTreme XT

Gamer Infinity 8500 Pro SE

Gamer XTreme 9000

 

or Jet Line Systems

 

Hellfire GT1

Hellfire GT2

Hellfire GTX

 

yea ... I think it's stupid too ... ^_^.

 

Looking forward to your efforts with the Flaming Vampire (very apropos now that True Blood is so popular)  ... good water cooled systems are great eye candy ... gorgeous to look at if put together well.  Now you have to have red coolant and red LEDs.

"Liquid Gold " perhaps?

Here, perhaps pics will help:

 

Let's start with a simple profile view of the tower:

 

 

Here's a shot with the highly reflective window panel removed:

 

 

Here is the bottom compartment on the same side with the hinged panel lowered.  This is where the Power Supply resides (at the back - rear of the image) and the 4x120mm radiator + 8 fans will be housed:

 

 

Here's a shot of the front with the nice brushed aluminum front bay cover:

 

 

Here it is without the panel:

 

 

Pressing on the upper left and right of the mesh area allows the mesh cover to come out revealing the 3 primary intake case fans:

 

 

Moving on to the back side you can see the excellent cable management:

 

 

Closeup of the hot-swappable SATA drive bay (note: there were 2 other drive bays in the bottom compartment which I removed to accommodate the 4x120mm radiator and fans):

 

 

Here is the case with a Zalman Z12 mid-tower in front to give you some perspective on size:

 

 

More perspective:

 

 

Here are all the fans that will be going into the case once the 4x120mm radiator arrives.  All stock case fans are being replaced with white LED fans to give it a bit of illumination, both radiators will be using Corsair SP120 2350RPM fans, likely running around 1600RPM.  

 

 

One last shot with the 1200W PC Power & Cooling Silencer III power supply, this should help you get a better idea for the color scheme as it's primarily black and white with hints of red from the motherboard (coming next Monday).

 

 

 

That's it for now, more to come as I start building the system out.  

Thats a beautiful and spacious computer case.

You will periodically have to remove the radiator fans to clean the radiator.

I would recommend the Koolance CPU 380i waterblock.

 

HLJAMES

Thats a beautiful and spacious computer case.

You will periodically have to remove the radiator fans to clean the radiator.

I would recommend the Koolance CPU 380i waterblock.

 

HLJAMES

 

Thanks James, I've already got the XSPC Raystorm block, a pretty nice block especially for the money.  I see I forgot to mention that in my original post.  I also have the full coverage XSPC Titan waterblocks and backplates.  Was hitting 39C at full load with my first 780 at clocks around 1242-1254/6800-7000 depending on application.  Got up to about 80C on the 3770k @ 4.9GHz and 1.5V.  That was all on the RX360 radiator.  Can't wait to see what the temps are like with two separate loops and push/pull fans.  Mobo and radiator should be here Monday, I'll try to have more pics up then.  Going to mock up the rads & mobo so I can measure my tubing out and determine which type of fittings need to go where to get the straightest/shortest runs possible, providing the cleanest look IMHO.  

My experiance with Ivy bridge:

D5 pump, R360 radiator: 4.9GHz

D5 pump, R360 x2: 5.0GHz

D5 x2, R360 x2: 5.1GHz

 

HLJAMES

My experiance with Ivy bridge:

D5 pump, R360 radiator: 4.9GHz

D5 pump, R360 x2: 5.0GHz

D5 x2, R360 x2: 5.1GHz

 

HLJAMES

 

Very nice.  What voltage(s)?  De-lidded?

Here's a couple shots of the new Maximus VI Formula motherboard that has the waterblock pre-installed on the MOSFETs:

 

 

 

I should have the rest of the components necessary to begin installation tonight, hoping to get the project wrapped up over the weekend, will continue to post pics as I progress.  

As big as the new case is, you would think there would be a way to put a small air conditioning unit in there! :lol:

As big as the new case is, you would think there would be a way to put a small air conditioning unit in there! :lol:

 

I'm sure it could work, there is a ton of room.  Up front cost, noise, and electricity costs have put me off but I may go that route eventually.  

Hi Max

Very nice build.

what type of pumps do you run?

i have start some tests with a 560 rad and 2xD5 on CPU.

Shall try to fit one more 560 rad with the RP452 with 2X D5 for gpu loop (run on cpu now) , and build a separate new loop for the cpu

with 2xPMP500 in series ( start milling  a special top for 2X PMP500 in series) hope that shall work out well.

If it not work a have the SS for cpu and RP452 for GPU ( if a can get it to run @5ghz a go for water its the start time with the SS that a dont like 3-5min before a can booth.

LOL Hasse, you really go all out don't you?  I thought I was going overboard with this build but not even close!  

 

I use a Swiftech MCP35x with XSPC reservoir top for the loop with the GPUs and a variable Laing D5 with bay reservoir for the CPU + MOSFETs.  

LOL Hasse, you really go all out don't you?  I thought I was going overboard with this build but not even close!  

 

I use a Swiftech MCP35x with XSPC reservoir top for the loop with the GPUs and a variable Laing D5 with bay reservoir for the CPU + MOSFETs.

 

I like to balance on the edge ok some projects can go overborard .

We ar some guys here that like to now the limits .

I Did a test with normal clock on the 4770k @4.6 1.3v vcore the LC loop with 2x d5 and

560rad agianst a H110 the temp diff was wopping 16c running XTU benchmark

The CPU is not yet delidd , HL James say " go Old School LC with Haswell " i Agree