[pcgamer]

Very nice setup Kuato! nice and clean like always How are the temps for the CPU and GPU? Gotta admit that is one kick ass case. Did you pay retail price for that?

I am in the process of water cooling my i7 as well .. will post pictures once I get my parts and set it up

[KU@TO]

Very nice setup Kuato! nice and clean like always How are the temps for the CPU and GPU? Gotta admit that is one kick ass case. Did you pay retail price for that?

I am in the process of water cooling my i7 as well .. will post pictures once I get my parts and set it up

Thanks man.  Temps for the CPU ~34C idle / ~65C load, GPU ~30C idle / ~45C load, VRM ~35C idle / ~50C load.

The case I bought after the price drop (actually smitty told me about it).  Not the best case as far as cable management goes but it's all aluminum, massive and I didn't have to do much to set up the two loops inside.

[Super J]

how do you run all your cables like that

[Rasparthe]

My i7 is almost done too, will post pics when its complete just figuring out the GPU cooling right now since I don't want to get in to watercooling and they rocket up to 85C since they are so close to each other.  Will post some pics when its all figured.

[Rasparthe]

Pics so far

[pcgamer]

Looking good .. how are the temps on the h5o?

[KU@TO]

+1

I like the sleeving 

[Rasparthe]

Looking good .. how are the temps on the h5o?

It runs about the same as any high end air cooler.  It tops out on Prime 95 at around 72 at 4.17Ghz when setup in Push/Pull idles around mid 30's.  I am still fooling with it because I think the way I have the push/pull setup is costing me a few degrees.  I have reseated it once already because was expecting a little better performance and one core reads 6C higher than the rest for some reason.  Reseating didn't change anything so apparently my first attempt was okay.  Am going to try a Noctua in it and see if that works better.  Still messing around with some to get the final setup working optimally and then going to see what it ends up with at stable overclock.  Thats all the fun though!

[Evilgenius]

simple solution for more air flow..... cut the grate or mesh off the back of the case that is over the fan blades

[Rasparthe]

+1

I like the sleeving 

Yes, well what a pain sleeving is.  Most people were saying its about 5 to 6 hours to sleeve a PSU.  I must be all thumbs because it took me closer to 20 although the sleeving I was using for it was odd and didn't help much.  But it looks good now!   

[DirtOne]

+1

I like the sleeving 

Yes, well what a pain sleeving is.  Most people were saying its about 5 to 6 hours to sleeve a PSU.  I must be all thumbs because it took me closer to 20 although the sleeving I was using for it was odd and didn't help much.  But it looks good now!   

wth is the sleeving?

[Evilgenius]

covering up the cables that come out of the psu with the black sleeving   so they look nice

[Rasparthe]

Do you see any bare wires in that picture?   (actually the Sata connection to the CD is not sleeved, probably get around to that soon too).  Sleeving is used to make all the cables look uniform and not such a jumbled mess of red/yellow/black only it is pretty labour intensive since you have to take off the connectors and such.

[Evilgenius]

did you cut out the mesh on your case like i said lol   seriously will get way more air flow

[Rasparthe]

No I haven't, the mesh seems pretty minimal it pushed out from the back plate so that the air flow isn't as restricted.  First going to try the other options and see what happens.  I think that because I'm using too different fans on the push pull the difference in RPM and air push is causing turbulence in the rad and loosing the smooth flow through the system.  Going to try with two exact same fans and see if that improves at all.