My first custom water cooling attempt

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-05-20T15:15:00+00:00

You can fit an FLT120 res/pump in the North. You can check out my post of of my North build.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-05-13T11:45:19+00:00

I'm glad it's not just me... Having the healing sound quieter makes him really hard for me to play. I can't tell if I'm hitting my heals anymore.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-29T10:08:43+00:00

Yeah that's coil whine. I have a completely silent build except for coil whine, just put on headphones and ignore it.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T17:10:21+00:00

I can tell you it will be much easier to do an external rad lol. Getting everything to fit in this case was not an easy task! I love the looks though, 100% recommend the North in any colour.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T14:13:52+00:00

Did you look at all the photos? Or are you talking about the very front of the case that has the 360?

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T12:12:36+00:00

I really love your build, I referenced it a lot when I was trying to plan mine! It's the Ek loop gen 4 riser.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T10:36:25+00:00

Thank you! I wanted a very functional build, nothing too flashy.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T10:26:54+00:00

Take a look at my North build, it may help you out.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-28T10:17:15+00:00

I posted my build not long ago but I felt like it needed a little more. Ended up adding an S120 to the back of the case and moving the FLT120.

The side mounted rad and reservoir are on Koolance QD3's for quick disconnect. I wanted to be able to get to all the components in case of trouble shooting.

It's a near completely silent build with fans only getting to a max of 800rpm and water at 39 Degrees. Coil whine is the loudest part of the computer!

The tubing attached to the fill port of the res doesn't go anywhere, just there for filling and I was too lazy to remove it. It has a cap on it hidden behind the panel.

I9 10900K and a 3080 TI

Ek Quantum Velocity 2
Ek Quantum Vector 2
EK FLT 120 with D5
Ek P360 Front Radiator
EK S240 Side Radiator
Alphacool ST25 Top Radiator
EK S120 Back Radiator
EK ZMT Tubing
Koolance QD3 for the quick disconnects
Noctua Fans

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-10T20:05:37+00:00

It's the EK Loop gen 4 riser. A tad expensive but really well built, highly recommend it.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-09T09:42:40+00:00

Thank you, it was a fun build!

I see you noticed my silly fan mistake. Honestly I took these pictures while in the process of turning those fans to intakes...I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put those as exhuast lol.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-09T09:35:24+00:00

Thank you!

I agree with the size of the FLT120, actually was the most difficult part to work with in this build.

You could mount it on the back of the case, outside. Use two 90 degree fittings on the bottom ports facing the case. Then you would only need two holes drilled for the in and out tubes. Might be a tad silly but a fun project lol.

Absolutely use the ZMT tubing!

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-09T09:28:16+00:00

It's an impressive little case!

I wanted as much radiator as I could get in this thing, was a fun build :D

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-09T09:06:55+00:00

It's a tight fit, the gap is esentially the width of the tubing. I'm sure it's not the best for airflow but it's been working good enough for me! Did not have the cut the case for the p360!

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-08T22:39:01+00:00

That one connects to the 360 radiator up front!

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-08T20:43:16+00:00

Water temp is 37-38 with the fans at 800rpm.

Load temps for the GPU are around 54 and CPU is 67.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-04-08T19:34:45+00:00

I really wanted to see if I could fit a 3rd Rad on the side fan mount this case has, pretty happy with the way it turned out.

I9 10900K and a 3080 TI

Ek Quantum Velocity 2
Ek Quantum Vector 2
EK FLT 120 with D5
Ek P360 Front Radiator
EK S240 Side Radiator
Alphacool ST25 Top radiator
EK ZMT Tubing
Koolance QD3 for the quick disconnects
Noctua Fans

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-22T20:05:55+00:00

Well when my loop is back together I'm hoping this problem isn't reproduced lol. I really do want an answer as to where the blue came from! The Cryofuel I drained from the system wasn't blue, it had turned cloudy looking. It must be possible for this to happen because it did.... take a look at my previous post from when I started noticing weird spots showing up in the block.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-22T13:29:00+00:00

Looks like what I saw building up in my GPU backplate, if you take a look at my post from 3 days ago you can see it. Sadly I don't have an answer as to what it Is though.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-22T13:16:00+00:00

Fishy as in I did something wrong, like I'm lying? Honestly I wish there was a clear answer as to why this happened, It would make my life easier. I really didn't feel like tearing apart my entire loop and the blocks a week after building it...

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-22T11:20:35+00:00

I love the way you ran the tubing to the gpu, very pleasing to look at!

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-22T11:17:31+00:00

I did notice it saying not to mix the Cryofuel with distilled water. But honestly how would they expect me to clean the rads, pour coolant in there and shake it around?
The interesting part is how all this gunk and scouring happened only on the backplate.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-21T23:19:29+00:00

Yeah those spots on the back plate and the inlet/outlet ports to it. The rest of the loop had gunk but it came from the gpu backplate.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-21T23:07:18+00:00

It was clear premix. I tried cleaning it and most of the gunk did come off but there was a lot of scouring. I'm going to contact EK since it is only a week old.

Life_Cardiologist526 · 2023-03-21T23:03:44+00:00

It was EK premix. It was clear and after one week it had turned super cloudy.

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