project water cooling in antec 600 part 1

DTV DRAGON · Jun 4, 2010, 02:09 AM

ok guys i finaly started today on setting up my water cooling system in my antec 600. For the first part of this build I will not be doing any painting on the case itself. This will only be the modding and fab part, and after I have that completed and ran for awhile, I will then yank it apart to paint the inside of the case etc.This will be done at a snails pace because of my pain condition, so if it looks like Iam not makeing much progress please keep that in mind.So today it was bascial just cutting away on the harddrve cage as well the cable managment panel so i can fit me rad upfront,I was thinking about mounting it uptop, but with it upfront i can still use the two 120mm fans that are stock on my 600 to pull in cool air,and then i mounted another set of 120mm on the rad so I have a push/pull air effect happining.with the front panel back on you cannot even tell that there is a rad tucked in behind there,So at this point I have the rad mounted and secured in place. and then found a nice spot for the reservoir (bought from sniperbob), but needed a way to fill it once it was mounted,so only thing i could come up with was plumbing some of my 1/2 red hose (that I bought from jellyrole) from the top of the res going through the top of my case (still need to make some sort of kewl looking cap for it) and that was about it for today as i needed to put it back together as its our only puter in the house lol, Part 2 will be mounting Swiftech MCP655 pump/EK-FC5870 for hd5870/laying out hose routeing

DTV DRAGON · Jun 9, 2010, 08:33 PM

well did abit more work today, and actually running on water as i type, I did not change over my 5870 yet as i wasnt feeling to great today , so i just attempted to get it to where it is now, I will run it for a few days like this and then start the second last part of this changeover Needless to say I was nervous as hell looking for any leaks or water dripping lol. but there was none. I have not run any temp benches yet, but in core temp it is idleing at 36 oc/ed to 4.1, cant wait till i have the 5870 in the loop as well, here are a few pics of todays work, also bought that neat little lcd graph temp gauge from fleebay, and drilled a hole and slid her down into the rez to give me a readout on my water temps, I mounted the gauge upfront on the case bezel.I will take some pics of that working and post them later on

mav2000 · Jun 10, 2010, 04:16 AM

Would like to see how you mounted that read out there...nice work.

(FIH) The Don · Jun 10, 2010, 04:18 AM

maybe cut a hole under the psu and flip it? will help you with wm imo

jellyrole · Jun 10, 2010, 04:42 AM

That tubing looks familiar.

MT Alex · Jun 10, 2010, 05:23 AM

Nice looking build. It's always a nail biter when you first fire up your loop. I moved to water just after Christmas and I'm still happy everyday after work when I find my computer hasn't leaked

I'll never go back to air. Also, I like your red rad fans, they go well with the 5870. I was a little disappointed when I put the block on mine and lost the batmobile look.

DTV DRAGON · Jun 10, 2010, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jellyrole

That tubing looks familiar.

yeah works great with my red theme, Also iam going to filp the psu so the wires are more to the inside of the case, wich will make it alot cleaner, Tommorow if iam up to it i will start the last phase and get the 5870 in water as well., thanx for commets guys

brandonwh64 · Jun 10, 2010, 08:07 PM

Nice dragon! its nice to see you got to 4Ghz on the CPU!! i remember when you first started OCing it and we were PMing up a storm!

Loosenut · Jun 10, 2010, 08:24 PM

Nice job man

Is it me or is your inlet/outlet on your cpu block backwards?

DTV DRAGON · Jun 10, 2010, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loosenut

Nice job man

Is it me or is your inlet/outlet on your cpu block backwards?

nop you caught me..good eye lol its changed already. I was wondering whp would get that, also here is a pic of my lcd meter that reads the water temp in res, I still need to fit the trim ring on so it covers the gap i have on one side

Loosenut · Jun 10, 2010, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTV DRAGON

nop you caught me..good eye lol its changed already. I was wondering whp would get that, also here is a pic of my lcd meter that reads the water temp in res, I still need to fit the trim ring on so it covers the gap i have on one side

Lolll, I have the same temp meter...

EDIT: Temporary setup

brandonwh64 · Jun 11, 2010, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTV DRAGON

nop you caught me..good eye lol its changed already. I was wondering whp would get that, also here is a pic of my lcd meter that reads the water temp in res, I still need to fit the trim ring on so it covers the gap i have on one side

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loosenut

Lolll, I have the same temp meter...

EDIT: Temporary setup

Were do you guys get that meter?

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 01:41 PM

brandon i got minr from fleebay, came from hongkong, but got here very fast,seems like stuff from hong kong gets here faster than when i order from the us, it actualy works very well. drilled a little hole in my res and inserted the probe and done deal,also today i will be doing the 5870 convert over, stay tuned for pics and results

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:10 PM

ok here is the 5870 changeover process, It all went very smooth,and i would say putting a water block on a gpu is a 3 out of 10 on the difficulty scale

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:14 PM

here are some pics of the 5870 completed with chrome backplate installed as well

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:17 PM

and some more pics of it getting put into case

kenkickr · Jun 11, 2010, 03:18 PM

Those EK blocks look sexy and also perform wonderfully. Lookin good so far.

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:21 PM

and now for a pic of the temps i get now with the 5870 on water.when it was on its stock cooler my temp was 50-52 at idle, (card o/c'ed to 975@1300 @1.25v) all I can say now is WOW what a difference water makes on the gpu!!

Loosenut · Jun 11, 2010, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenkickr

Those EK blocks look sexy and also perform wonderfully. Lookin good so far.

I couldn't agree more Dragon.

Excellent choice for GPU block

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:30 PM

loosenut,....you more than anyone would know that!!!!! I made a good friend from some compresion fittings and a ek gpu block

kenkickr · Jun 11, 2010, 03:34 PM

Nice temps. I run mine @ 1Ghz GPU/1.3Ghz mem on 1.125v without issues. I've recently played around some more and it takes 1.35v to run 1150Mhz GPU/1350Mhz Mem. Still sitting under 50 celcius at full load.

Loosenut · Jun 11, 2010, 03:35 PM

Interesting story too... Maybe you should share it, I do believe it pertains to this build, wouldn't you say?

Good job Bro, looks sweet so far

DTV DRAGON · Jun 11, 2010, 03:41 PM

sure does! and as soon as i come back from doc appt. i will

Loosenut · Jun 11, 2010, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTV DRAGON

sure does! and as soon as i come back from doc appt. i will

Hope all goes well Dragon, we're prayin' for ya

DTV DRAGON · Jun 12, 2010, 05:16 PM

hey guys, thought id posta quick pic of my temps under full fur mark load, have to say that before water my temps were at 72 and now they are at 45 and at even higher clocks
my clocks are now 1018@1306 and 1.287 volts, and i know i can go alot higher or at least until it starts to drop in performance, wich i couldnt do on air before, I will post more later on as i need to take a rest now, wasnt a great doc visit as some of you kinda know what is going on with me take care

Jun 4, 2010, 02:09 AM	#1
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	project water cooling in antec 600 part 1 ok guys i finaly started today on setting up my water cooling system in my antec 600. For the first part of this build I will not be doing any painting on the case itself. This will only be the modding and fab part, and after I have that completed and ran for awhile, I will then yank it apart to paint the inside of the case etc.This will be done at a snails pace because of my pain condition, so if it looks like Iam not makeing much progress please keep that in mind.So today it was bascial just cutting away on the harddrve cage as well the cable managment panel so i can fit me rad upfront,I was thinking about mounting it uptop, but with it upfront i can still use the two 120mm fans that are stock on my 600 to pull in cool air,and then i mounted another set of 120mm on the rad so I have a push/pull air effect happining.with the front panel back on you cannot even tell that there is a rad tucked in behind there,So at this point I have the rad mounted and secured in place. and then found a nice spot for the reservoir (bought from sniperbob), but needed a way to fill it once it was mounted,so only thing i could come up with was plumbing some of my 1/2 red hose (that I bought from jellyrole) from the top of the res going through the top of my case (still need to make some sort of kewl looking cap for it) and that was about it for today as i needed to put it back together as its our only puter in the house lol, Part 2 will be mounting Swiftech MCP655 pump/EK-FC5870 for hd5870/laying out hose routeing Attached Thumbnails

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Cooling:	custom cpu and gpu cooling
Memory:	8 gig G.Skills RipJaws @ 7,8,7,24,@1440mhz
Video Card:	HD5870 SAPPHIRE 1018@1310at1.29v on water
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Jun 9, 2010, 08:33 PM	#2
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	well did abit more work today, and actually running on water as i type, I did not change over my 5870 yet as i wasnt feeling to great today , so i just attempted to get it to where it is now, I will run it for a few days like this and then start the second last part of this changeover Needless to say I was nervous as hell looking for any leaks or water dripping lol. but there was none. I have not run any temp benches yet, but in core temp it is idleing at 36 oc/ed to 4.1, cant wait till i have the 5870 in the loop as well, here are a few pics of todays work, also bought that neat little lcd graph temp gauge from fleebay, and drilled a hole and slid her down into the rez to give me a readout on my water temps, I mounted the gauge upfront on the case bezel.I will take some pics of that working and post them later on Attached Thumbnails

System Name:	family system
Processor:	intel quad core Q9650 o/c'ed to 4.1
Motherboard:	gigabyte EP45T-USB3P ( new board)
Cooling:	custom cpu and gpu cooling
Memory:	8 gig G.Skills RipJaws @ 7,8,7,24,@1440mhz
Video Card:	HD5870 SAPPHIRE 1018@1310at1.29v on water
Hard Disk:	750 gig sata 7500rpm X2 seagate barracuda
Optical Drive:	labelflash dvd burner
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PSU:	thermaltake 850 watt modular (new version, single rail)
Software:	Windows 7, 64 ult.
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Jun 10, 2010, 04:16 AM	#3
mav2000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bangalore, India Posts: 350 (0.21/day) Thanks: 63 Thanked 53 Times in 44 Posts System Specs	Would like to see how you mounted that read out there...nice work. __________________ Mav2000

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Jun 10, 2010, 04:18 AM	#4
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Jun 10, 2010, 04:42 AM	#5
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Jun 10, 2010, 05:23 AM	#6
MT Alex Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Montana Posts: 2,018 (1.45/day) Thanks: 2,538 Thanked 1,323 Times in 917 Posts System Specs	Nice looking build. It's always a nail biter when you first fire up your loop. I moved to water just after Christmas and I'm still happy everyday after work when I find my computer hasn't leaked I'll never go back to air. Also, I like your red rad fans, they go well with the 5870. I was a little disappointed when I put the block on mine and lost the batmobile look. __________________ “growing up, i always wanted to be a vet. til i learned there was more to being a vet than just putting down cats all day.” -digibucc My 700D

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Jun 10, 2010, 08:07 PM	#8
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Jun 10, 2010, 08:24 PM	#9
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Jun 11, 2010, 01:41 PM	#13
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	brandon i got minr from fleebay, came from hongkong, but got here very fast,seems like stuff from hong kong gets here faster than when i order from the us, it actualy works very well. drilled a little hole in my res and inserted the probe and done deal,also today i will be doing the 5870 convert over, stay tuned for pics and results

Jun 11, 2010, 03:10 PM	#14
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	ok here is the 5870 changeover process, It all went very smooth,and i would say putting a water block on a gpu is a 3 out of 10 on the difficulty scale Attached Thumbnails

Jun 11, 2010, 03:14 PM	#15
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	here are some pics of the 5870 completed with chrome backplate installed as well Attached Thumbnails

Jun 11, 2010, 03:17 PM	#16
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	and some more pics of it getting put into case Attached Thumbnails

Jun 11, 2010, 03:18 PM	#17
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Jun 11, 2010, 03:21 PM	#18
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	and now for a pic of the temps i get now with the 5870 on water.when it was on its stock cooler my temp was 50-52 at idle, (card o/c'ed to 975@1300 @1.25v) all I can say now is WOW what a difference water makes on the gpu!! Attached Thumbnails

Jun 11, 2010, 03:30 PM	#20
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	loosenut,....you more than anyone would know that!!!!! I made a good friend from some compresion fittings and a ek gpu block

Jun 11, 2010, 03:34 PM	#21
kenkickr Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Springfield, IL Posts: 4,490 (2.25/day) Thanks: 1,024 Thanked 1,328 Times in 1,094 Posts System Specs	Nice temps. I run mine @ 1Ghz GPU/1.3Ghz mem on 1.125v without issues. I've recently played around some more and it takes 1.35v to run 1150Mhz GPU/1350Mhz Mem. Still sitting under 50 celcius at full load.

Jun 11, 2010, 03:35 PM	#22
Loosenut Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Montreal, Qc. Canada Posts: 717 (0.59/day) Thanks: 319 Thanked 169 Times in 150 Posts System Specs	Interesting story too... Maybe you should share it, I do believe it pertains to this build, wouldn't you say? Good job Bro, looks sweet so far __________________ "A closed mouth gathers no foot" -Me My Heat Ebay

Jun 11, 2010, 03:41 PM	#23
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	sure does! and as soon as i come back from doc appt. i will

Jun 12, 2010, 05:16 PM	#25
DTV DRAGON Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: canada Posts: 874 (0.48/day) Thanks: 141 Thanked 64 Times in 56 Posts System Specs	hey guys, thought id posta quick pic of my temps under full fur mark load, have to say that before water my temps were at 72 and now they are at 45 and at even higher clocks my clocks are now 1018@1306 and 1.287 volts, and i know i can go alot higher or at least until it starts to drop in performance, wich i couldnt do on air before, I will post more later on as i need to take a rest now, wasnt a great doc visit as some of you kinda know what is going on with me take care Attached Thumbnails

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