Why would you exhaust from the case with the water cooler instead of drawing "cooler" air from out side of the case and pushing it across the radiator?

 

I don't want to exhaust hot radiator air into the case ... if my other cooling fans and case air flow it working as expected, my inside case temp should be pretty close to ambient.

 

Here is the basic flow:

 

 

 

EDIT: Update PSU flow and power on verification.

 

The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is the PSU flow out of the EVGA 1200W P2.

 

 

just in case you've forgotten about the cat

 

I would say magneto cat is definitely not amused

 

Cheers, Rob.

Why would you exhaust from the case with the water cooler instead of drawing "cooler" air from out side of the case and pushing it across the radiator?

Russ

I always liken a case to a data centre. the room housing the servers draws cold air in from banks of air conditioners. Another bank of air conditioners is used to exhaust the air. A computer case can only draw ambient air into it so the inside of the case should hover at ambient temperature. I remember a data centre where a spare downstairs office was converted into a temporary data centre. The exhaust of 8 air con units was by a walkway. In winter it was lovely to walk past. In summer it was like walking past a volcano.

More progress ... water cooling setup in place and under going 24 test for leaks period:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I wait 24 hours.

 

I understand these are rather detailed (I'm sure many just wanna see results), but hopefully I've provide enough info for anyone else that might be planning a build with similar components so they can see what fittment and how I went about this build.

 

It's kinda "fun" to do these builds, it seems every time I do one, the manufacturers (case, PSU, water coolers) get more and more advanced and address short comings from prior years ... coming from the days where I had to manually set IRQ jumpers on cards (GPU, NIC, etc.) so that they wouldn't conflict ... today's PC building is 100X easier.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Awesome Rob - really enjoying this post - well done

Glad to see you went with EK. I recommend picking up some 45 degree compression fittings. It'll really help cut down on the amount of tubing and make "cleaner" connections. I have the EVGA Supernova 1200 P2 as well. Although, mine looks a bit different. Fan is on top.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, there is some dust... I'll get to it. 

 

 

I have the EVGA Supernova 1200 P2 as well.

 

It got a lot of very good reviews and uses more expensive and stable Japanese components ... but it was the load changing characteristic that eventually sold me on the 1200 P2.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

 

if my other cooling fans and case air flow it working as expected, my inside case temp should be pretty close to ambient.

 

One of the best thing you can do to improve case air flow is to remove as many fan filters and grills as possible.

You can actually hear the fan speed up momentarily as you do so because of the decrease in the back pressure the fan experiences.

 

gb.

One of the best thing you can do to improve case air flow is to remove as many fan filters and grills as possible.

 I can't do that kind of thing here as even with a house filter there is so much construction going on in this area and other reasons why dust is amazing I would have inneffective radiators in a matter of weeks.   As it is I have to open it up and clean everything out every three months to keep things stable at a high OC.  

 

Rob, my Maximus V Formula came with a special USB port, cable, and program called ROG connect that allows me to control the clock and voltage from a laptop on the fly.  I don't know if it came with your system, but it's pretty neat to use it to step up BCLK and voltage before locking them in on the Mobo.  step, test, step, test, oops, reboot, step back, test, step, test, heh.  I am finally giving it a shot again right now with my rickety old 3770k again (deleted/lost a nice 4.6 - 4.8 stable settings).  With 2.5 and the new NV drivers I really hoping the core 1 bottleneck may be broken at a lower clock within range.

I'm so curious to see what your system can do.  Thanks for leading the way again.

 

 

Rob, my Maximus V Formula came with a special USB port, cable, and program called ROG connect that allows me to control the clock and voltage from a laptop on the fly.

 

Yes, the ROG unit is part of Asus motherboard purchase, I plan to use it for my OC efforts ... however I did have to fix the cable that plugs into it ... too much heat shrink around the connector preventing it from sliding all the way into the socket for a secure connection, easy fix.

 

 

 

Core 1 load will not change as long as the simulator is quad-tree based and needs to synchronize the world ... FSX, P3D, XP10, Outtera are all quad-tree based.  There maybe some optimization along the way but I'm not expecting any miracles for core 1.

 

There was/is a "smoke and mirrors" company claiming they can make any program leverage all the CPU cores at close to 100% regardless of application ... but the company has not developed any real world application nor a demonstration.  The company just appears to be looking for more funding on what IMHO is a simple logical impasse.  Threading is defined by what the application needs to accomplish at a logical level ... in the case of flight simulations that logic is a synchronized world not a world that finishes out of order and in jumbled up sequences.

 

When we really understand what singularity means, that'll be the same time we figure out how to re-sequence threads outside time and space

 

Cheers, Rob.

Hope everything is ship shape and the bilge pumps are still in standby?

Just organizing the wiring now ... with start the long Win7 install process tomorrow night.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Hi,

 

I have an old first gen I7-980X and I'm still debating on waiting for Skylake, but I know one thing "I'm getting this cooler" for my overclock.

 

http://koolance.com/ultra-compact-450W-recirculating-chiller-exc-450

 

I think your results will factor in on me waiting on Skylake, I look forward to your results Rob.

:-) same here. I did order mine yesterday evening ! I'll get the parts sometime next week , so hopefully next weekend will be PC building time !

 

Case : Cooler Master HAF X

MOBO : Asus rampage V extreme

CPU : i7 5930K cooled by the corsair H100i

GPU : Zotac GTX 980

RAM : DDR4 2800 16Gb Corsair

SSD : 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro

 

and I treated myself with the new Philips BDM4065UC (40inch 4K monitor)

 

Best

 

Karim

FYI on the Samsung 850 Pro 1TB ... I was able to get my Local Fry's Electronics to price match NewEgg $399 (Fry's will charge whatever price match shipping fee would be, but Fry's rep found it on Amazon with free shipping so didn't charge me for that, flat $399) ... they would also price match NewEgg's $189 for the Samsung 850 Pro 512GB ... end result I couldn't pass up the price so will be using a Samsung 850 Pro 1TB and one of my older Samsung 840 Pro 1TB in this build.

 

 

 

I know one thing "I'm getting this cooler" for my overclock.

 

I was going to go that route for cooling also, but it had some less than positive reviews and since it's a chiller there is condensation draining that will need regular maintenance.  BUT, with that said, I hope you do get it as I'd be VERY interested in your results and what you think of it.

 

Cheers, Rob.