Project Rainbow Vomit: Alphacool Core Storm 360 (Plus extras)

[Mussels]

It'll look better too. Worth the effort IMHO.Of course, it's your system and if you're happy with it, that's what count. Wasn't trying to come off telling you want to do.

The entire joy of custom loops is that at any time you can add remove or alter anything it


and Alphacool of course loves this because people spend money on new shiny bits to make those changes

 

[Athlonite]

It'll require some 90 degree fittings and shenanigans, but will clean up that one janky hose

And who doesn't like Shenanigan's

 

[Mussels]

And who doesn't like Shenanigan's

The Irish!

They FECKIN LURVE SHENANIGANS

 

[Mussels]

Todays Episode of Mussels has a creepy new forum pic is called: "Mistakes and how to fix them"

Oh no, how do i change my tubing without draining the entire PC and lots of hard work?


Why, Alphacookls quick disconnects! (also known as a QDC)
Without *TWO* openings, liquid drains out super duper slowly letting you control things super well.

Everyone say hi to Bingo as the quick disconnect comes out, and DON'T FORGET THE TOILET PAPER. There is always a little mess that needs wiping up, so make sure you have the TP stocked before you do this!

You raise the hose high up in the air (Or have spare tubing ready and add as an extension!) - liquid flows out the lowest point so an opening up high has nothing come out, letting you remove the quick disconnect from the tubing, and then tada - you pop it right into your fill bottle to safely re-use

It comes out very very slowly

Once i was ready with the fill/drain bucket, I used Alphacools little AlphaTool to make that second opening at my hidden fill port up top, speeding this up

Because the lowest opening was above the height of the GPU block, helix res, pump and so on - none of their liquid wanted to leave, I basically drained the top radiator only doing this

I then sealed up the previously open end (by re-attaching the QDC) and worked on the CPU end, repeating the same trick with the top fill port
These are dirty dirty EK rotary fittings (which are actually really good) and allowed me to tetris twist this

In a trial run the tubing didnt go straight at all but with a gentle curve, letting me leave some slack with the tubing - and letting me hide the QDC beautifully

@lexluthermiester stole 40 cakes, and that's terrible

As punishment for the cake theft and giving me ideas on how to improve the build, you all get some photos

This one is grainy, but it's closest to how the colours appear in person

 

[lexluthermiester]

@lexluthermiester stole 40 cakes, and that's terrible

Don't forget the 400 pies I stole...

Jokes aside, beautiful work!

 

[Mussels]

Because the fractal cases have sliding rails for the fans, it's let me slide the top radiator further to the rear - giving me plenty of room for the hose to pass by

And then that extra space intended for 140mm fans vs 120mm let's the quick disconnect fit so damn well in there too

 

[Mussels]

I had four 90 degree G1/4 fittings from EK in this build
3 have now failed

They're all the same colour in the dark chrome (Forgot the official name) - the lighter silver ones that are years older are all fine.

The leak is in the rotary join, not somewhere you can fix as an end user or replace a washer

 

[Nordic]

I don't know how I missed this build when it was first posted. Very cool. Im a fan of alpha cool. I have been using one of their nexxos monsta rads for nearly 10 years now.

 

[Mussels]

I don't know how I missed this build when it was first posted. Very cool. Im a fan of alpha cool. I have been using one of their nexxos monsta rads for nearly 10 years now.

Build logs don't get much attention, but since this was the first (hopefully of many) sponsored parts i've been sent in a decade I'm doing my damned best to give it the attention it deserves

I've unlocked more pro camera settings on my for slower exposure times and stacking images, but it might go super weird with any RGB animations (Tempting to run some of the fancier effects and freeze them in place, for images)

 

[Nordic]

Your build is an inspiration. I plan on getting a thermaltake P3 and I will be getting a new alphacool rad for that. No rgb though.

 

[Mussels]

I wish i could get cameras to show the RGB as it appears in person

The lian li strimers have a really slow refresh rate so they're not great for animations, but the corsair RAM can do some crazy truly hypnotic things that photos just don't catch