Oh yes, computers !
So for about seven months now I have been happily running my upgrade. 14 core 28 thread Xeon that I have bus clocked to gain an extra 50mhz on all cores, as well as a force clock using the Genie to make certain cores run at their single core speed. Basically in a nut shell this forces four cores to run at 3150mhz, two after those ot run at 3050mhz and then all of the remaining cores to run at 2850mhz. Great ! and leaves a Ryzen 1800x in the dust when threading which is exactly what I was after. It cost less, too.
Any way, back in the summer I also bought a Titan XP (which has not lost a single penny in value since then which is awesome) and I soon got very tired of the air cooler. It was loud, and the back plate got obnoxiously hot. So I full out water cooled it on a slightly larger than single 120mm rad.
It took a couple of weeks of planning, measuring and mocking up in order to get it to fit. I had to take the slant degree of the case into account before doing anything, and then trying to make everything run vertically so it wouldn't leak all over the place and the res not be pissed at 60'. Yeah, wasn't easy but I managed to cram it all in.
Sadly I didn't realise that every review of the Titan XP under water were using a double rad. I simply didn't even think about it. Well when I finished it I realised why they had done that. Basically on a single rad I was reaching temps of 88c under water. No throttling, but yeah, pump is only rated ot 60c water temps and even the hoses became rather soft and a little floppy. That was during summer though, and it was a very hot summer down 'ere. So I decided to lower the power limit, lower the overclock to 200mhz and ended up getting 1900-2000 depending on the temps. This is not possible on air, your max boost is around 1800mhz depending on temps so I was happy I guess.. However, I wasn't happy that it was still hitting mid 60s.
So I did what every sane person would do, bought a lovely big old pile of shit to improve it.
240mm rad as opposed to 120, top end rad too (Bitspower) to match all of the fittings and res, and new fans that have lights in them. First time I have used LED fans in many a moon. I also ordered a USB computer (Poweradjust there) with a module that allows you to run 9 fans or pumps and control it all within Windows. I then bought a heatsink for the computer within a computer.
Because I hear they run quite hot, and then many fan extensions and a power extension.
Then I pulled it all apart and drained it.
Coolant was OK, but you can see here why you don't use a single rad on something so hot. It doesn't allow for much coolant at all really.
At least I saved it, it is rather expensive at £12 a bottle. Only a little bit of evaporation too over the past seven months.
Not bad considering how hot the GPU was running. I will be tackling it all next week, but, if I did my maths correctly it should all just literally slot in and I shouldn't have to use any new hose. The rad is the same thickness, same width and the same spacing between the G 1/4 ports. All I need to do is flush it all with distilled vinegar then I can build.