Project DD01 - Corsair 900D, Asus Maximus VI Formula Custom Water Cooled

[DavidNSY]

Update Final Pics


Hello from Australia! 🙂

I'm totally new here and also a beginner in building water cooling system and case modding as well. I've just done my first build recently and decided to make a build log to share with you my long but very excited journey. Yeah that's my first water cooling build ever, first time modding something, first build log so far.

Also English is not my first language so I'm sorry if you found something funny in my post. However I'll try to post as much detailed pictures as I can hopefully that will cover me well.

Ok, here we go! Components:

Core:
CPU: i7 4770k
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Formula
RAM: 2x 8Gb G.Skill Trident X 2400 mHz
GPU: 2x HIS Radeon R9 290
PSU: Silverstone Strider Gold 1200w
SSD:

• Samsung 840 EVO 250Gb
  
• 2x Corsair Force 240Gb
  
• ASUS Raidr Express 240Gb (optional)
  

HDD: WD Green 4Tb

Cooling:
CPU water block: EK Supremacy Plexi/Nickel
GPU water block: 2x EK Radeon R9-290X VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal
2x EK R9-290X VGA Liquid Cooling RAM Backplate
2x EK Coolstream PE 480mm Radiator
EK Coolstream PE 240mm Radiator
Pump: 2x Swiftech MCP655
Fan:
Corsair Air Series AF140 Quiet Edition Red LED
2x Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition Red LED
8x Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition
6x Corsair Air Series AF120 Performance Edition
Reservoirs: Bitspower Water Tank Z-Multi 250 Clear
Bitspower Dual D5 Mod Top
2x Bitspower D5/MCP655 Shining Silver 2 Pump Mod
Bitspower crystal link
E22 acrylic rigid tubing
Coolant: Mayhem X 1 Red
Bitspower fitting: too many to list

Other material and stuff:
ModMyToys Power Distribution PCB 3 and 8 way
Red and White LED strip
Some MDPC-X sleeving
1.2mm Aluminium Sheet
3mm Frosted and Clear Cast Acrylic

And the Show of course 🙂

The Giant






Sorry for the quality, those pics have been taken by my phone, I'm going to get a DSLR Camera for the next shots.

The ROG 😄









Armor

HIS R9 290



Two little devils

Fans

Rads



Pumps





All together

CPU Block

GPU Block

Fittings








I'm also running this build log on overclock forum at the same time (which suppose to be the original one).

Ok, that's just for now. Too much pics for a post? Correct me if I'm wrong, any feedback and suggestion would be much appreciated as my lack of experiences. Hope you enjoy guys and see you in the next update which will be posted very soon, Cheers!

[DavidNSY]

Well my current setup is res -> pumps (yes 4/5 speed) -> GPU -> 2 bottom rads (240 and 480 all SP performance fans) -> CPU and MB -> top rad (8 fans push/pull) back to res.

So basically coolant comes out from GPU will be cool down by two bottom rads before goes to CPU and MB then again through top rad before back to res.. sound correct? Not sure about flow rate sorry but when I fill up the loop water back to the res in just few seconds. I also have heard somewhere that few people getting the same issue with there Haswell CPU end their solution after all is delid it lol.

I've just came back from work and was able to do a quick test. Bios setting: core 46, Vcore 1.3, Uncore 39, Vring auto, VCCin 1.95

Under AIDA test (please click to enlarge)



Idle


GPU idle


While gaming


As you can see GPU temp would not be problem and CPU under stress test looks ok, isn't it.

[naj1991]

hmhm,... it definitly not your config... 😉 and jea it looks realy nice - i will take r290x too by my next build... you've convince me that you don't need mora's to take them cool.. ^^ but haswell make's much heat... (easy much more than sandy, especially when you overclock it.. i remember me at some posts of peoples... jea.. ) i think you have became once exemplare that you dont can push over 4.2-4.4Ghz to be under 70°... 😕 *chips are everytime a luck how much you can push it.. (cpu's as gpu's..) and yea, in your position i would take a speed where your CPU not have more than this spoken 70°... 75 is also not bad but hard on the limit.... *as this point i shot down my pc better... 😉 you must see how much you like your cpu^^ probably when you would takn a 4790k you dont have the temp problem so fast as with your 4770k.. 😉 *they are at theyr radiation bath in the factory more in the middle.. (are better respectively be cooler @higher speeds... this is the reason why the price is higher at greater numbers of itel prozessors)

when you not buy the X-prozi you everytime have a Committee part... that you must know... (maks not the same as the other prosessors from the same workstep (probably all i7 will be a'x bevore they come to theyr last workstep and not all became the same radiation .... after that the prozis be sorted out on basis what they will run in these or these temps... and then they become theyr numbers... (its not tested... only theoretics and experience from intel- they test this bevore you can buy the cpu's) thats the reason why some peoples can run with higer speeds than you and be cooler @the same time..

but pc with 4.2/4.4GHz runs also nice... 😉 so much you dont feal the difference @battlefield you must know...
probably @installing programms extracting rar's or somthing else... i seen you have 2x 250GB Crossair ssd's i hope you have take them in a raid0 (but over the intel chip!!!! ->marvel/ASmedia take one lane of your prozi (you have only 16... thas bottlenecks your potential speed) 😉 thats a much more difference as your corespeed, hasswell has everytime more transystors than my sandy... (it can make more with 0.3-0.5GHz or more under my 2700k core speed.. 😉 )

[MeanMachine]

Woot!!

I think your close to the sweat spot David, Your config for cooling is better than any I have seen and the results show it.

Would now love to see your ROG Realbench scores posted, Well done.

[DavidNSY]

MeanMachine wrote:
Woot!!

I think your close to the sweat spot David, Your config for cooling is better than any I have seen and the results show it.

Would now love to see your ROG Realbench scores posted, Well done.

Yep very close indeed, there are still a lot of things to do however, will update benchmark score as soon as possible, cheers!

[ealterry]

"Well my current setup is res -> pumps (yes 4/5 speed) -> GPU -> 2 bottom rads (240 and 480 all SP performance fans) -> CPU and MB -> top rad (8 fans push/pull) back to res."

Correct me if I am wrong... the input (cold) of crosschill should be from the bottom to up, not from up to bottom as I understood.

[DavidNSY]

ealterry wrote:
Hi, just want to ask. Based on your setup, your cpu will be receive a warm or hot coolant from the gpu, is it acceptable with your current cpu temperature?

In the first layout, yes. At high load, GPU temp is about 40-43 degree Celsius (OCed to 1100) goes up to CPU and MB directly that no good definitely. As I have mentioned before, CPU temp is about 3-4 degree higher to compare with the final configuration.

ealterry wrote:
"Well my current setup is res -> pumps (yes 4/5 speed) -> GPU -> 2 bottom rads (240 and 480 all SP performance fans) -> CPU and MB -> top rad (8 fans push/pull) back to res."

Correct me if I am wrong... the input (cold) of crosschill should be from the bottom to up, not from up to bottom as I understood.

There is no assigned in or out port for the crosschill so it could be whatever you want.

[ealterry]

double post

[ealterry]

DavidNSY wrote:
In the first layout, yes. At high load, GPU temp is about 40-43 degree Celsius (OCed to 1100) goes up to CPU and MB directly that no good definitely. As I have mentioned before, CPU temp is about 3-4 degree higher to compare with the final configuration.



There is no assigned in or out port for the crosschill so it could be whatever you want.

Thank you, your built inspired me a lot...cheers

[naj1991]

duds... the config can not be better when the liqiud after the gpu's go to the bottom rads (6x120er (4-6cm)) and after that to the cpu/MB... he has done all very good to the end,... 😉 congratulation and now you have any experience with watercooling and the diffrent configs... this was easy intresting also for me... and to the end i ask me do you have any Thing for pressure compersation on your agb or are the hard thubs not so sensitive?

[DavidNSY]

naj1991 wrote:
duds... the config can not be better when the liqiud after the gpu's go to the bottom rads (6x120er (4-6cm)) and after that to the cpu/MB... he has done all very good to the end,... 😉 congratulation and now you have any experience with watercooling and the diffrent configs... this was easy intresting also for me... and to the end i ask me do you have any Thing for pressure compersation on your agb or are the hard thubs not so sensitive?

I don't have, I think it's not really necessary and the loop will look cleaner without it. I set up a temp sensor stop fitting at the inlet port of dual d5 mod top for monitoring temp of coolant comes out from the res that's it.

Minor update for OC process..
I think I have found actual sweet spot for 4.6 Ghz - Vcore 1.31, cache ratio 39, Vring auto, VCCin 1.95. My PC survived after 8h of AIDA and the same for Realbench stress testing, also been playing Bf4 for 3 days without any problems. Now is time for optimizing cache ratio, VCCin and memory OCing.
Some other BIOS settings:
Internal PLL Overvoltage: Enabled
CPU Load-Line Calibration: Lvl 8
CPU Power Phase Control: Extreme
CPU Current Capability: 130%
Turbo Mode: Enabled
EIST and C states: Disabled