Boxing Rig - Watercooled Titan Xp, lots of photos

[dancook]

I had an full coolermaster atx tower X99 PC build, and sold it off to built a miniITX system

The first ITX revision of the build using a Lian Li PC-O5SX case, this is before I decided to water cool.



Asus MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT Socket 1151
Intel Core I7-6700K Processor (4 GHz, 8 M Cache, LGA1151)
Cooler Master Nepton 240M AIO Liquid CPU Cooler
G.SKILL TridentZ Series F4-2800C14D-32GTZ 32GB DDR4 2800 MHz C 14 1.35 V Memory Kit
MSI NVIDIA GeForce 980ti
Corsair SF Series 600 Watt 80 PLUS Gold
SanDisk Ultra II SSD 480 GB Sata III 2.5-inch Internal SSD up to 550 MB/s
Crucial SSD ~500 GB




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[dancook]

Because I decided I was going to watercool, and that I was only going to do this once - I decided to put the best card I could it in at the time, which was the Titan X pascal. I got the following components for the job.

EK-FC Titan X Pascal - Nickel
EK Water Blocks EK-XRES 100 DDC 3.2 PWM Elite (incl. pump)
EK-Cable Pump testing adapter
Koolance Radiator, 2x120mm 30-FPI Copper
2 x Noctua NF-F12 IndustrialPPC 3000RPM PWM 120mm High Performance Fan
EK Water Blocks EK-FB ASUS M8I Monoblock - Nickel
Mayhems Ultra Pure H2O 5Ltr
Mayhems Fine Silver Kill Coil
9 x EK Water Blocks EK-ACF Fitting 10/16mm - Nickel
3m Primochill Primoflex Advanced Tubing 16/10 - Clear
Rockit 88 - Black Body - Black
Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra Thermal Paste

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So I'm cooling an overclocked i7-6700k and overclocked Titan XP on a single 240 rad.. temps and noise are fine!


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[dancook]

I took some further photos outside :)

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[MiRai]

Neat. https://www.dual-boxing.com/images/icons/icon14.png


So I'm cooling an overclocked i7-6700k and overclocked Titan XP on a single 240 rad.. temps and noise are fine!
I'm curious about this, since everyone's definition of "fine" is different. What speed are the fans running at? Are they audible? Are they on a PWM curve? What are the temps under load after 30 minutes of gaming, and then after 60 minutes of actual gaming? You might also be able to get a fair estimate from just running something like Unigine Valley on a loop for 30-60 minutes to see where everything falls. I say "fair," simply because Valley doesn't chew through a lot of CPU, but it's not sitting there idle, either.

I ask because , from what I've read in several threads across the internet while I was doing my research on water-cooling, 120mm of radiator per component is the bare minimum, and you can expect to dissipate ~150W of heat, at most, per 120mm of radiator—"at most" referring to having the fans turned up very high, if not 100%.

At stock, the Titan-X you have can consume up to 250W worth of power, and a (we'll assume) mildly overclocked 6700K is going to consume over 100W, so right there you're potentially dumping 350W worth of heat into the water. If you never stress your system then I guess this would be fine, but I would also guess that if you were stressing your system for longer periods of time, the temps would either continue to increase rather than level off, or your fans would reach jet engine mode (fan curve dependent).

Personally, when I originally asked around if I could cool ~650W worth of hardware on a 360mm radiator, I was told there was no way that would work unless I wanted my fans turned up to 100% when actually using the hardware.

[dancook]

I'm curious about this, since everyone's definition of "fine" is different. What speed are the fans running at? Are they audible? Are they on a PWM curve? What are the temps under load after 30 minutes of gaming, and then after 60 minutes of actual gaming? You might also be able to get a fair estimate from just running something like Unigine Valley on a loop for 30-60 minutes to see where everything falls. I say "fair," simply because Valley doesn't chew through a lot of CPU, but it's not sitting there idle, either.


Ok the 'fine' comment came mostly from before I recently started multiboxing again, I had enabled quiet fan settings in the past - I think I've lost those since and need to revisit.

Earlier today when multiboxing 5 x WOW outside stormwind AH (been playing all day), the fans were at 2000RPM and the CPU is at just under 40C - this was quite audible though it's become white noise to me and so I zone it out mostly.

However I will take a look at the settings right now, trying fix RPM at 1350.

IDLE PC - at 1350 RPM it's more of a murmur,

1975

I'm going to leave this running 5 x wow outside stormwind AH and see what happens if I leave the fans at 1350

[dancook]

Ok in fixed RPM mode, at the Auction House the CPU will reach 75C and the fans will kick in for a short while and stabalise the temperature.

If i move away from the auction house it will sit at 55-60 at ~1350rpm

I think I'll stick with this setup for a bit, the rest of WOW does not tax the CPU like the AH

It responds very quickly to the settings, so flying from stormwind to searing gorge, it sat at <60c

Also actively fighting in BRD instance is not having an impact, running at 1350RPM<60c


--- to further iterate what I mean by fine is---

When I was determined to make this build, against everyone who told me it wouldn't work - I was led to believe it would sound like a jet engine.. but it doesn't

Also people tend to have water cooling so they can maintain a silent pc, that isn't the case with my PC. I watercooled my pc so that I could overclock CPU and GPU and cool them within a small stylish box :)

Aircooled GPUs would not be preferable in such a case, especially overclocked

[moosejaw]

I know my build has a different purpose but I took the extreme route with the radiators. X79 chipset with 4930k and it now has the same video card as yours (Titan Pascal). Many of the same EK parts too.


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[dancook]

I know my build has a different purpose but I took the extreme route with the radiators. X79 chipset with 4930k and it now has the same video card as yours (Titan Pascal). Many of the same EK parts too.


1977

1976

:) nice, beast.. looks like a bomb from die heard with a vengeance :D

Whilst I got my bearings in the photos, for a moment I thought you might be setting up external cooling :D

I saw that once, tubes through a wall into a garage, into a box setup with radiators and fans.

[WOWBOX40]

Very pretty rig, congrats :p

Around 4 years ago i bought a all copper Rad: http://koolance.com/erm-3k3uc-liquid-cooling-system-copper
And i use quick disconnects and soft tubing. The quick disconnects hang just outside the cases, so its fast and easy to cool several pcs in series.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Nice pics as always, Dan. Though I must say, I couldn't figure out which made me laugh harder: the picture of the thermal paste syringe making me think "Did you intend to put a drug paraphernalia pic in with these?" for a split second or the powered-on-and-perched-on-the-edge-of-a-body-of-water pic. :D

[dancook]

Very pretty rig, congrats :p

Around 4 years ago i bought a all copper Rad: http://koolance.com/erm-3k3uc-liquid-cooling-system-copper
And i use quick disconnects and soft tubing. The quick disconnects hang just outside the cases, so its fast and easy to cool several pcs in series.

Cool didn't know you could get these retail, seen home made types.

[dancook]

Nice pics as always, Dan. Though I must say, I couldn't figure out which made me laugh harder: the picture of the thermal paste syringe making me think "Did you intend to put a drug paraphernalia pic in with these?" for a split second or the powered-on-and-perched-on-the-edge-of-a-body-of-water pic. :D

My PC is on steroids, dontcha know :)