June 10, 2013

• Waterloop Heaven

  I finally got around to putting in that water loop. I’ve had the components for well over a year, but never had the time. I still didn’t install the GPU blocks, but that will come another day. I didn’t want to deal with taking off the stock heatsinks quite yet. After all, Asus does some (relatively) decent stuff with their higher end cards. I’m just sad I didn’t do this a year ago when these parts were all bleeding edge.

   

  
  [5D2 - Tamron 28-75/2.8@28mm, f/2.8, 1/25, ISO 3200]

   

  
  [5D2 - Tamron 28-75/2.8@40mm, f/2.8, 1/25, ISO 3200]

   

  And for my fellow nerds out there, here are her specs…

   

  Water Loop:
  

  • Swiftech MCP 655-B Pump
  • XSPC Raystorm CPU Block
  • 2x XSPC Rasa GPU Blocks (not yet installed)
  • XSPC RX480 v2 – badass 480mm triple-width radiator
  • Tygon Silver antimicrobial tubing (and a silver strip in reservoir)
  • 8x 120mm Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15 – superb for radiators
  • 2x 140mm Air Penetrator AP-141 – fantastic for high restriction

  Computer:
  

  • Intel Core i7 2600k @ 5.0 GHz – stable at 5.1 and I’m sure I can tease out a solid 5.2, but way too high voltage
  • 2x Asus GTX 670 DirectCu II TOP – haven’t played with OC too much yet
  • 2x 120GB Corsair Force GT in RAID 0 for OS – it’s FAST http://goo.gl/rTzxy
  • 16 GB G.SKILL Sniper Ultra Low Voltage RAM (1.25v)
  • Asus P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard
  • 3x Platter Drives for storage (2 in RAID 1 for photography, other for m1sc pr0nz)
  • Kingwin Lazer 1000W PSU
  • Lian Li PC-A70F Case

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