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Work in progress Muzzle Flash III: White Death

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*sigh*

Went to make the 4-pin 'Y' cable for the aquabus, and ... I'm out of 4-pin female connectors (and nearly out of 3/4-pin pins too). I did manage to make the 4 'Y' wires, just nothing to put them into. :censored:

Every single store that I would normally order from in the states is out, including 3 local ones. So I had to order from ModDIY in China and have to wait a week.

Oh well, I'm not gonna wait. I'm going to hook things up temporarily and put some distilled water in and check for leaks on the pump, reservoir, flow meter, drain, and radiators.

If it ain't one thing, it's another.
 
'47 Knucklehead said:
*sigh*

Went to make the 4-pin 'Y' cable for the aquabus, and ... I'm out of 4-pin female connectors (and nearly out of 3/4-pin pins too). I did manage to make the 4 'Y' wires, just nothing to put them into. :censored:

Every single store that I would normally order from in the states is out, including 3 local ones. So I had to order from ModDIY in China and have to wait a week.

Oh well, I'm not gonna wait. I'm going to hook things up temporarily and put some distilled water in and check for leaks on the pump, reservoir, flow meter, drain, and radiators.

If it ain't one thing, it's another.
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I am surprised how are you bearing through all these. I tell you, if it was me, I'd kick this project's bottom altogether, and take a weekend at a nice place.
 
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Well, I hooked up most of the plumbing, ran a bypass (which is basically the CPU and GPU's), filled it up, and turned it on. Bleeding was very quick, and the system is very quiet ... even with the sides and top open.

So far, no leaks. I'll let this run for 24 hours though. Loading up the Aquacomputer Aquasuite software up on an old laptop and going to check things out, maybe even see about running the LEDs.


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'47 Knucklehead said:
Well, I hooked up most of the plumbing, ran a bypass (which is basically the CPU and GPU's), filled it up, and turned it on. Bleeding was very quick, and the system is very quiet ... even with the sides and top open.

So far, no leaks. I'll let this run for 24 hours though. Loading up the Aquacomputer Aquasuite software up on an old laptop and going to check things out, maybe even see about running the LEDs.


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The front is looking cool :punk:

So, you temporarily joined the loop, right? Like this: (res+pump)>sensor>rads>(res+pump)? You know you'll gonna have to do this bleeding thing again after installing the blocks :sad:
 
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Frozen Fractal said:
The front is looking cool :punk:

So, you temporarily joined the loop, right? Like this: (res+pump)>sensor>rads>(res+pump)? You know you'll gonna have to do this bleeding thing again after installing the blocks :sad:
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Yeah, I'm just doing a basic test. I have to actually pull out the whole mid plate one more time so I can cut the holes to run the power wires to the motherboard.

I just got tired of not seeing anything get anywhere. :haha:

That and I wanted to see how noisy the flow meter is. Last time I used it, it was noisy as sin. Now, you can barely hear the thing at all. The pump is actually louder.

Here is a video of what I was fighting before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-eY_1P_9yE


Here was my first attempt at fixing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVyxuWfy96I

having the sensor vertical, like in the video, caused the most noise. When it is perfectly horizontal, it is very quiet.

I also am looking at places to put air temperature sensors (I have like 6 of them), and the Aquareo can monitor 8 sensors (I have 1 for the water), and I'm thinking about putting one in the "dog house", one in the upper chamber where the motherboard is, and one in the lower chamber in between the radiators.

I don't know any other meaningful places to put one, so maybe just 1 water and 3 air sensors.

Maybe another outside the case, say on the front to try to get an ambient outside the case air temp. Thoughts?
 
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'47 Knucklehead said:
Yeah, I'm just doing a basic test. I have to actually pull out the whole mid plate one more time so I can cut the holes to run the power wires to the motherboard.

I just got tired of not seeing anything get anywhere. :haha:

That and I wanted to see how noisy the flow meter is. Last time I used it, it was noisy as sin. Now, you can barely hear the thing at all. The pump is actually louder.

Here is a video of what I was fighting before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-eY_1P_9yE


Here was my first attempt at fixing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVyxuWfy96I

having the sensor vertical, like in the video, caused the most noise. When it is perfectly horizontal, it is very quiet.

I also am looking at places to put air temperature sensors (I have like 6 of them), and the Aquareo can monitor 8 sensors (I have 1 for the water), and I'm thinking about putting one in the "dog house", one in the upper chamber where the motherboard is, and one in the lower chamber in between the radiators.

I don't know any other meaningful places to put one, so maybe just 1 water and 3 air sensors.

Maybe another outside the case, say on the front to try to get an ambient outside the case air temp. Thoughts?
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So are you insulating it or leaving it sit horizontally without anything?

Six of them huh? Hmmm, how about two (in & out) for the GPU, two for CPU, two for the ambient (lower compartment, where the rads are, one near the air intake of the rads, and other near the exhaust side)? But I guess it's more optimal to place two probes near the hottest water point in the loop, and two more on the coldest point and maybe two for the ambient, near the exhaust and intake of the rads
 
'47 Knucklehead said:
Well, I hooked up most of the plumbing, ran a bypass (which is basically the CPU and GPU's), filled it up, and turned it on. Bleeding was very quick, and the system is very quiet ... even with the sides and top open.

So far, no leaks. I'll let this run for 24 hours though. Loading up the Aquacomputer Aquasuite software up on an old laptop and going to check things out, maybe even see about running the LEDs.


Xj4J0BN.jpg



GZiJA6X.jpg
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how did you connect the Aquaero to the laptop? Is the power coming from the White Death PSU and a cable?? to the laptop
 
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Dan_Br said:
how did you connect the Aquaero to the laptop? Is the power coming from the White Death PSU and a cable?? to the laptop
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Yup. I have an old school non-ATX power supply that I use for just giving me power to devices, and I powered the AQ6XT with that, then I have a USB A to USB header cable that I connected the AQ6XT to the laptop to.

Sneaky eh? :thumb:



On a side note, when you daisy chain 8 fans together make sure that the custom cable that you are making to go to the AQ6XT doesn't have the ground and RPM wires crossed. Thankfully the AQ6XT fan channel didn't blow, but it did take out the RPM indicator on one of the fans. So I have to find another fan that runs at 1200RPM (some of the Cougars show RPMs of 1000 and some 1500 at full speed) to use as the one fan to monitor RPMs in the group. :whistle:


Today was definitely a 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards kinda day on this build.

Tomorrow I'll get a couple pictures for the other build before I have to go to a funeral for a friends mother.
 
I'm not as far along as you are, but working hard to catch up . . .

I had to order from MODDIY to get what I need for all custom cables, since sitting the mobo above the PSU has some unique needs for extra short runs.

Trying to decide how to work in a few meters of high density RGB strip so I have some color options with the Farby.


Darlene

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