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Water Cooling SLi GTX560Ti

thuyla — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:50:09 +0000

I’ve finally got all the parts together and finally updated my water cooling rig. Running single loop with GTX560Ti in SLi and CPU. The water cooling parts are:

Watercool HEATKILLER® GPU-X³ GTX 560 water block
Swiftech MCP 655 Water Pump with Speed Controller
Bitspower Dual D5 Mod Top Extreme
EK Dual Bay SPIN Reservoir with Flow Meter
XSPC RX360 Radiator
XSPC Rasa Black Acetal CPU block
Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1850RPM 59CFM @ 28db Fans
PrimoChill PrimoFlex PRO Black Tubing 1/2″ID 3/4″OD with 1/8″ Wall
Bitspower Ultimate G 1/4 Thread 1/2″ ID x 3/4″ OD Compression Fitting
Danger Den SLi Fitting Kit
Lian-Li PT-FN04 fan controller

As for computer parts I’m currently running with:

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D
MB: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 with bios F3
CPU: Intel i7 2600K 3.4GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: EVGA nVidia GTX 560 Ti SC
PSU: Corsair AX850

Some photos:

Updated: After 20 minutes FurMark stress test the GPUs, the load temp is reading around 42ºC, for the idle temp is 30ºC (my room is 24ºC). I’m very happy with this result. Here is a FurMark screenshot:

My Water Cooling setup

thuyla — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:20:31 +0000

Well, after two weeks running the Corsair H70 on my old system, I thought to myself what the heck. So, I’ve decided going for water cooling on my new system. With the new Corsair Obsidian 800D case and a 360 radiator top mounted. It took me about a day to setup, testing, bleeding, … to make it safe to power it on. Well, with all the parts I’ve collected and here it is:

Testing my loop for leaking.

The Pump/Reservoir combo in front panel.

All the parts is hooked up and ready for the first time to power it up.

With the side panel window, you can barely see me behind it.

Top fan honeycomb holes removed and attached new painted black fan grilled

Look nice eh?

Front panel with power off.

Front panel with power on. The blue led looks amazing cool…

As you may know by now with the front panel has the XSPC logo, that’s the XSPC Rasa 750 RX360 kit I’m running with. For now my loop is pretty simple a CPU water cooled. In near future, I may get my nVidia GTX 560Ti GPU water block and add to the loop.

So, what are the temperatures I’m currently running? CPU Idle is at 35ºC and 50ºC on load. I’m pretty happy with this temp. CPU is running at 4.4GHz and 1.334V. Here is my screeny:

My New PC Rigs

thuyla — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:28:28 +0000

_ Case: Cooler Master CM 690 II
_ MB: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 with bios F7
_ CPU: Intel i7 2600K 3.4GHz
_ RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz
_ GPU: EVGA nVidia GTX 560 Ti SC
_ PSU: Corsair AX850
_ CPU Cooling: Corsair H70

iPhone 4 car mount

thuyla — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:55:54 +0000

Anyone with a flashlight? Fenix LD20 is one of my favorite one.

A shorten version of Macally mGrip Suction Cup Mount I am using in my car. I had to cut the extra arm length to fit the spot.

Here is how it looks when I’m driving. Cool ehh?

HTPC with SSD (case mods)

thuyla — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:12:06 +0000

I’ve just added my OCZ Core Series 64GB SSD to my HTPC Antec Veris Fusion 430 case. I used double-sided foam tape to attached the SSD on top PSU case (as you see images below). The pretty thing is that SSD does not create much heat and no vibration at all, that’s the advantage of it. I’ve left a little bit space on the right side if I ever wanted to add another 2.5″ drive beside it.

OCZ SSD on top of the Antec PSU case.

Side view with double-sided foam tape (3 layers of foam tape).