[Case Gallery] Tt Armor T.E.C cooled processor / Watercooled graphics

[mandelore]

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Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego processor @ 3.12GHz. Asus A8r32-MVP Deluxe motherboard. CPU MCW-5002-64 peltier cooled (-7℃ idle +13℃ load) X1900XTX graphics card watercooled by Dangerden Tyee waterblock (35℃ idle 55℃ load). RAM consists of 2x 1Gb Corsiar XMS PRO DDR550Mhz modules. Harddrive Maxtor 250Gb SATA 2 6V250F0- Vantec Vortex 2 Cooled. OPTORITE Ultraspeed DVD RW DD0495. 24" Dell 2407WFT rev 2 High definition Widescreen LCD display + 21" Dell CRT. Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black case. Tagen Easycon 580W Black power supply

Mods:
Custom cooling setup for both processor and X1900XTX. The processor is peltier cooled using an MCW-5002-64 pelt waterblock with 2 large radiators one at the front of the case and the other fixed to the rear of the case using a radbox, the reservoir fills a spare 5.24" drive bay. The graphics card has a single radiator in the loop with 2x P4 original CPU heatsinks alloy bonded with the top having the original fan on. The pump for the processor loop is a Liang D5 pump screwed to the botton of the case, and the pump and reservoir for the graphics cooling loop is housed in the removable hard drive bay at the top back of the case. Also have bonded a smaller heatsink to one side of the radiator. The card itself has a Dangerden Tyee waterblock with voltage regulator block attached. On the voltage regulator I fixed 9 BGA ramsinks and 2 on the tubing ports. All the coolent in the system has blue/purple U.V dye. And to illuminate this I have 4x U.V cold cathode tubes. The meanwell powersupply housed near the top 5.25" bay has its hot exhaust extracted from case by 3xsilent 40mm fans which i fixed to the back of the bay front panal directly infront of the meanwell power supply. The hard drive is cooled by a Ventec Vortex 2 hard disk cooler. At the lower front of the case i spliced to ends of a front bay panel to the sides of an LCD digital display which i have coupled with the lcdsmartie software to display cpu/gpu temperatures and their current core frequencies as well as cpu usage.

Still workin on the cables, gonna get those hidden n maybe wrap the ones i cant hide in U.V reactive spiral wrap

 

[chopperdan88]

looks kina messy

well, to me it does at least. if i were you, i would have gone with smaller diameter tubing, just so it doesn't look so cluttered. if you were to run 3/8" or 1/4" dia. tubing, then it would probably open up some space to see inside to that corsair memory w. those flashy LED's, then you'd be blingin!

 

[g12rxz]

nice, i'd have to say in my opinion at least its ownage in its purest form; mess or no mess. if your gonna go big, go big, and i think you've done that... Tt armor, peltier cooling, and seperate cooling for the videocard. you got my thumbs up!

 

[mandelore]

Hi, thnx for your comments, I decided to go with the larger diameter tubing coz i previously had a custom built pelt unit with much narrower tubing, and found i just couldnt get a high enough flow rate to get the job done, plus i had to splice diff sized tubing to fit the rads etc, and had a bad experience with a seal breaking and killing an x800xt + mobo + larger diameter tubing means more fluid in my loop, therefore a slightly greater cooling capacity is allowed

So, I decided to to go all one size tubing, no fiddly coupling or anything like that, poweful pumps etc. So at least i can run it 24/7 without any worries, plus that tubing is thicker, so if the pelt heated water does infact get a lill bit toasty theres no risk of the tubing warping or bursting. God that fills me with the hibigeebies

So in essence, its built to do what it says on the the tin, while still looking nice. All suggestions and comments welcome, thnx


Edit: hmmm, my smilies aint workin...

 

[pt]

Nice, 7/10

I would get a bigger radiator for better cooling

 

[mandelore]

I would get a bigger radiator for better cooling

I take it you mean on the gfx card loop? I originally used one of the 120mm rads for it but had to switch to the other due to size constraints on the back of the case, a 120mm would overlap too far onto the back of the psu, so i could maybe squeeze the psu power connector but would certainly not be able to unscrew and remove the psu if something terrible should happen.

Basically i had to work with what space was available, but I do agree, I would have much preffered a 120mm rad instead of the 80mm, even tho its a fat one. Thats why i decided to bond those heatsinks to the rad to compensate for a lack of size. But i can live with the temperatures on my gfx card atm.

Thnx for your vote btw

 

[demonbrawn]

Those heatsinks do much to help cooling the rad? Hahah oh well, I love the redneck rigging of the random heatsinks on it cause it looks like something I would have done. I just don't like not using parts, you know? I have a big copper heatsink from an old video card that died sitting on my workbench and I've been dying to figure out what to do with it. Cool either way...

 

[mandelore]

Hehe, well tbh the rad never gets more than barely warm, but i suppose they do help, coz after a full day of running games, the heatsinks feel about the same temp as the rad, so the top fan must be having some input to the cooling effect. Well I had some spare actic silver perma bond alloy and many many motherboard corpses lying about, so i decided to stitch em all together haha, waste not cry not later, anyway, they were cluttering up my room

 

[mandelore]

I just don't like not using parts, you know?

I know exactly what you mean, on my previous setup, I had a peltier cooling my x800xt, and i bonded the stock heatsink/fan onto the bottom of it, ended up being bloody huge haha, but did the job, till I err, had an accident it went fry fry.

Still got a custom built cpu pelt block and that pelt gfx cooler spare, dunno wot to do with them, coz the gfx pelt block only had an 80W pelt in so no good for high end cards, hmm, I smell ebay... or maybe sum wierd Northbridge mod.. hmmm... got me thinkin now

 

[mysticjon]

and i thought i had problems with cable managemnet lol, iis a nice blue u used but very cluter, just by judging the pics u got, but i'd say nice cooling system

 

[Devilprojectstorm]

I voted 1/10 because:

a mess of tubes

 

[TXcharger]

thats wicked and everything a watercooling setup should be...complicated! lol

 

[Protius]

all those tubes make it look kinda sweet, should look even better once cables are cleaned