This is my documented build of "Project Siphous"
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Alrighty then, update on Project Siphous!
I got my case and fans I need, so I assembled the shell of the system with the liquid cooling setup in place, but not yet connected.
This is the case with my new fans installed in configuration.
I have a 140mm in the back, and three 120mm in the front in an altered configuration, I'll explain why later.
Here you see I have put the plugs onto the radiators in the spots I wont use. I have also installed the fittings and the fans onto them each. They use 120mm Static Pressure fans to maximize the pressure passing through the radiators.
*note* Static pressure fans are better for passing air through obstructed areas such as radiators, or hard drive enclosures.
This is the setup with the radiators installed. You can see that the one internal fan on the front is mounted on the inside. If you reference the second image you can see that I have two Static Pressure fans on the top and bottom, and one high Air Flow fan in the center. The top area is obstructed by the hard drive bays, and the bottom fan is obstructed by the bottom radiator. So the center fan is a Air Flow fan to maximize efficiency.
I mounted the light strips behind the top and bottom radiators so they are out of sight, and won't give overpowering light.
This is the beginning of the cable management. For now it is just how the light strips are setup. With this case I have almost an inch of clearance in the back so cable management will be very easy.
I mounted my Reservoir, pump, and the necessary fittings. I haven't yet run any tubing, that will wait until after the motherboard is installed so it is not in my way.
Well that's all for now! Next I will be getting the good stuff, like the board, processor and video cards! I will go over the process of removing the stock cooler on the cards, and installing the water block onto them.
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Not much of an update, but it's something.
I found out that I had my pump incorrectly aligned, so I slightly adjusted it. Then i ran the basic tubing that would not interfere with the installation of additional hardware.
I have salvaged two of the fans, the front 120mm and the rear 140mm because the fans in my current PC shit the bed on me. New ones are in the mail.
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Things have been going slowly recently, mainly because I have been biding my time for the remaining components. I'm trying to not make the same mistake I did last time where as soon as I make my purchase a new product puts mine to shame. While that will never be entirely the case since new things are always coming out, I decided to hold off until a few key components are available.
I have pre-ordered an i7 4790K "Devil's Canyon" which should ship out on the 25th of this month, and I am patiently waiting for the release of the Asus Maximus VII Formula, which was revealed at Computex, but the only word on release date is "sometime in July".
But I have still managed to get some things done, which I will explain.
First of all, I re-acquired the fans I salvaged. Then I decided to move my bottom radiator to the front, and remove the hard drive cages. I will be mounting one 4TB drive in my bottom 5.25" bay, and two more in the back side behind the motherboard, completely out of view. My reasoning behind this is because of the PSU I bought, Corsair AX1200i. It is too big to have installed with a bottom mounted radiator, note the picture below. So I opted for front mounted radiator and run four fans on it in push/pull configuration to ease the effort required to pull air through the front of the case which has slightly restricted airflow.
I installed my pump regulator/fan controller as well as a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter in the bottom bay. (It will be concealed)
I installed two Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSDs which will be my primary OS and core programs drives, they will be configured in Raid 0.
Finally you can see that all of this still remains nice and pretty looking!! Note that the third bay will not show the internally mounted HDD at all because I can still mount the front piece over it.
That's all for now, it's going slowly until I have more funds, and the motherboard gets released. Then there will be more fun!
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Today some fun was had.
The board I purchased came in, so I set about doing a test bench setup to verify everything was in order.
Asus Maximus VII Formula
Intel core i7 4790k
Corsair AX1200i
I had an issue with the heat transfer from the stock cooler so I decided to throw my armageddon on there to test further.
My next decision, was even though I'm not yet prepared to assemble the full water loop, I need the money from my old system. So I decided to build the system as is on air in the meantime, so that I can sell my old rig for the money I need to finish the water loop. Needless to say, I am not disappointed one bit. I routed the custom sleeved cables through the system (the back is a bloody mess right now and I will neaten it up when I am doing the water conversion anyways so I won't show that area.)
Behold, the awesome power!
2x EVGA 780Ti Classified K|ngp|n editions
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Original post located below:
Edited by Kwen, 04 August 2014 - 08:57 PM.
Holy Crap that looks good 
