Nickel HeatKiller Pro IV Threadripper Water block arrives. 1kg of nickel goodness.
Nickel HeatKiller Pro IV RTX water block is going to look good with the nickel CPU block. Like the CPU block its so weighty that my decision on vertical mount was made.
Nickel GPU Backplate every bit the manufacturing quality of everything else I've gotten from Watercool so far.
HeatKiller Tube 200 is just massive feeling. Once again impressed with the manufacturing quality from Watercool.
HeatKiller WPC D-5 Vario Pump and Pump Top. I stuck with Watercool for most of the major pieces of this water cooling puzzle
HardwareLabs Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS radiators ready to have the HeatKiller pump sending water through them.
Primochill fittings and tubing in. Time to get building.
Primochill fittings and tubing in. Time to get building.
Trying to plan location for the HK Tube 200 and D5 WPC Vario pump and top. Ended up swapping them with the reservoir first and then the pump. A slight modification in the mounting location of the vertical mount cage brought the GPU up higher giving me a lot more room.
Radiators in to start planning tube routing.
First couple of lines run and not happy with it.
No matter what angle, still looks wrong.
Fittings look real good though, so there's some consolation.
Fittings look real good though, so there's some consolation.
Loop draining would be much easier with the ports at the bottom but the plumbing doesn't seem right.
The way this is going to cause me to plumb the return line is making this seem like a bad approach.
No way around it, ports are going to have to go to the top.
Switched the radiator around so ports are on top. This is much better.
Drain valve now in a more convenient location. Clearance is tight but the front glass slides on w/out problem.
The return line may still be a challenge, but more manageable I think.
From all angles this is not only better routing plan, but looks better as well.
So much time spent on 3 lines. But better to go slow and get it right now rather than get it finished and not be happy with the layout.
Tying to GPU
Plumbed with horizontal radiator I/O ports located at top left.
Plumbed with horizontal radiator I/O ports located at top right.
After testing both port positions for the horizontal radiator it became clear that top left was the best location.
Back to vertically mounting the GPU. Leak testing time.
Can't have too many paper towels for the first leak test.
Up and running. Still some things to do, but fully operational now.
Watercool HeatKiller Pro IV RTX 2080ti Nickel Backplate
Watercool Heatkill D5 Vario Pump and Top
Watercool HeatKiller Tube 200
Watercool HeatKiller Pro IV RTX 2080ti Nickel
Hardwarelabs Black Ice Nemesis 360GTS's
Watercool HeatKiller Pro IV Threadripper Nickel
Primochill Matte Gray Fittings and Primo Flex Advanced LRT Tubing
Snoopy II - The Custom Water Loop
First custom water loop.
CPU - HK IV Pro Threadripper
GPU - HK IV
Reservoir - HK Tube 200
Pump & Top - HK WCP D-5 Vario
Radiators - Hardware Labs Black Ice 360 GTS
CPU - HK IV Pro Threadripper
GPU - HK IV
Reservoir - HK Tube 200
Pump & Top - HK WCP D-5 Vario
Radiators - Hardware Labs Black Ice 360 GTS
Color(s): Aluminum Black Carbon Silver
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Industrial
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: E-ATX
Type: Concept Build
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Hardware
Cooling
$ 143.96
Cooling
$ 125.00
Cooling
$ 39.95
Cooling
$ 59.52
Cooling
$ 42.47
Cooling
$ 136.95
Cooling
$ 94.43
Cooling
$ 5.62
Cooling
$ 103.05
Cooling
$ 74.59
Accessories
$ 103.90
Estimated total value of this build:
$ 1,139.07
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