A step into the blue

[cdawall]

No timing love?

I tried looser timings to push it up with no avail, didn't try tightening it up any at 3100. Wanted to actually get some gaming going on it. Will give CL14 a go in the morning, hopefully that goes ok.

 

[cdawall]

Well I finally got some of this finished up. The 5x120GB OCZ Trions are finally in raid 0, the Vector got moved to the other controlled and added the second 7950 installed and crossfire.

 

[cdawall]

I am starting to hate how tightly my two cards are spaced. 3600RPM is fucking loud for that top card which is easily getting into the mid 80's

 

[cdawall]

As is usual for me I cannot leave anything alone and have decided the H100i is not enough and I want to go to a custom loop.

Parts I have
Swifty MCR220
Swifty MCR220-stack
Laing D4, Laing D5 vario
Black tubing
PWM 255CFM nidec beta V's

Parts I want
Swifty apogee XL or EKWB EK-Supremacy EVO (suggestions?)
Pump top res

The current plan is to run the two rads stacked in the intake using the nidecs inbetween. They have more than enough static pressure to handle these rads. My question however is these are 50w PWM fans, is there a way to use the PWM control on the mainboard and direct power with the fans? If I am not mistaken you can, but in what way do they need to be wired.

 

[sneekypeet]

As is usual for me I cannot leave anything alone and have decided the H100i is not enough and I want to go to a custom loop.

Parts I have
Swifty MCR220
Swifty MCR220-stack
Laing D4, Laing D5 vario
Black tubing
PWM 255CFM nidec beta V's

Parts I want
Swifty apogee XL or EKWB EK-Supremacy EVO (suggestions?)
Pump top res

The current plan is to run the two rads stacked in the intake using the nidecs inbetween. They have more than enough static pressure to handle these rads. My question however is these are 50w PWM fans, is there a way to use the PWM control on the mainboard and direct power with the fans? If I am not mistaken you can, but in what way do they need to be wired.

Please elaborate on the fan power requirements. You want pwm controls , but want power from another source than the motherboard fan header? Did I understand that right?

So you are looking for these?
http://www.phanteks.com/PH-PWHUB.html
https://www.nzxt.com/products/GRID-Plus-v2
http://www.swiftech.com/8-WayPWMsplitter.aspx

 

[cdawall]

I want the motherboard to control it, but to power using an outside source. The fans are too high wattage to use the motherboard or any traditional fan controller.

 

[xvi]

I've heard that passive PWM splitters seem to lose control once you hook up more than 3-4-ish, I think. Something about the PWM signal not working very well when split up more than a couple ways. The more you add, the more you lose the ability to slow the fans down. Been a while since I've heard anything about it and I can't find a good source on testing, but it's a rumor I've heard. Perhaps someone could confirm/deny?

The GRID Plus is a decent option, if you don't mind an extra icon in your system tray. It won't handle fans that are really high amperage, but it does alright.

 

[cdawall]

I saw some for fans my style, but they hand made them lol. Maybe i should actually read the how to on it.

 

[cdawall]

Repainted these in a hammered black, but it turns out only one will fit if I want to use the thicker fans.

EK res/PWM pump combo fits in there nicely, but you loose the 2.5" bays.

My size predicament I cannot fit the pair of rads in here by a couple MM if that. The power cable is actually the issue as well as my current GPU's being a hair to long.. I may try moving it under the board and just throw in a temp GPU waiting for the new NV/AMD stuff to hit.

 

[cdawall]

Some temp cards that don't fit inside the sidepanel...Those are DD blocks though. mmmm nostalgia

 

[basco]

how come you have dust already on the inside swiftech radiator?
and the what fans are these grey ones?? 38mm thick??

 

[cdawall]

The mcr220 stack is 3 years old the qp is an original so probably 8+ years old.

The 80x25mm fans on the back are noctua redux 1800rpm pmw fans

 

[cdawall]

Ordered some PWM fans to replace the ultra kaze's that I have mocked up.

Also grabbed one of these, just in case to mount off of the back.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/7..._GTX_Xtreme_M184_Radiator_-_Black.html?tl=g30

Hopefully that will be enough for the eventual polaris/pascal GPU or 2 under water plus the CPU.

 

[cdawall]

Well these showed up today.

 

[cdawall]

Everything is up and running now, no leaks CPU is just kicked down to stock, but max I am seeing is 45C load temps. The Delta fans do work on the onboard fan headers, but I had to swap two pins to get them working for some strange reason they were wired GND, PWM, SNS, PWR instead of GND, PWR, SNS, PWM.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Lovely.

Which GPU is that?

 

[cdawall]

Lovely.

Which GPU is that?

VisionTek R9 290 refurb, was $190 with a 3 year warranty so I can't complain about the performance pretty much ever.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Them hoses look gigantic in that small case LOL.

 

[cdawall]

Them hoses look gigantic in that small case LOL.

I know that's why I went with the thick stuff haha.


Oh an just in case anyone is curious a 5820K can be passively cooled even under load for 45mins+ with this setup.

 

[cdawall]

So a couple of things since I last left off in here. I ordered one of these and hopefully it works. Sometimes they are fine on the GB boards other times they boot loop, worst case I guess I could buy the Asrock match as it is known to work with these.

I updated to the F22 bios which was a massive change in the layout, for the better. Probably the best BIOS update I have seen GB do to date. The ram is more stable in this BIOS so I bumped the timings down just a hair under the XMP profile and when I get a chance I will see what these sticks can really do.

Temps with the custom fan profile are reasonable at this clock speed. When it is bumped to 4.7 the added voltage tanks the temps by almost 10C.

It does appear GB finally fixed the warm boot memory issues. This setting which was unstable before is working like it should.

 

[cdawall]

Oddball upgrade for this thread and it greatly overpowers my video card, but I snagged a Dell UP2414Q... Holy smokes is it prettier than my junk 1080P was.

 

[xvi]

UP2414Q

23" 4k? I bet it does. You must have better eyes than I do.

 

[cdawall]

23" 4k? I bet it does. You must have better eyes than I do.

23.8" IPS 4K, I have the text scaled a smidgen for normal desktop stuff (looks like a 1440P 23.8" would), but games look gorgeous better than my ROG swift 27" 1440P 144HZ at work. Well quality wise, it still doesn't quite touch the smoothness.

 

[cdawall]

After a couple hours of Fallout 4. Added 3 120mm slim medium speed scythes (2 bottom intakes, 1 top exhaust) which helped case temps some, but the GPU still gets dumb warm even with the bottom radiator 120mm fan running at 2900RPM (most power this board can provide)

 

[cdawall]

Some photo updates of the new fans and ugly cabling on the back side. Case temps dropped a good bit.

Finger removers?

One thing I must say for this case, dust build up is almost non-existent I am very impressed with that. The machine next to it is absolutely horrible for dust on the inside (monthly cleanings).

This will also be getting a new video card here soon, weigh in your opinion...

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/yet-another-480-vs-1060-thread.226786/