Fully Watercooled FT-02 (SR-1 560, 100% EK, MCP35X, CH3F, 1090T, 5970)

I just finished putting together my fully watercooled PC housed in a Silverstone FT-02B modded to accomodate a Black Ice SR-1 560 radiator, though with only 3 fans since the 5970 is 1.5cm too long.

Specifications:
- Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair III Formula
- CPU: AMD Phenom II 1090T (CCCBE CB 1022BPMW)
- RAM: Corsair Dominator GT 2000 MHz C8-8-8-24
- GPU: ATi Radeon HD5970
- Sound card: ASUS Xonar DX
- SSD (OS): Corsair F120
- HDD (storage): Hitachi 5K500.B 500 GB
- Media R/W: LG CH8LS10
- PSU: Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro P8 1000W

Watercooling equipment:
- Pump: Swiftech MCP35X (PWM controlled)
- Radiator: Black Ice SR-1 560
- Reservoir: XSPC Single Bay
- CPU waterblock: EK Supreme HF v2 - Acetal + nickel
- GPU waterblock: EK FC5970 - Acetal + copper (not nickel plated as bought before the other ones)
- Motherboard waterblock: EK FB ASUS CHIII - Acetal + nickel
- Radiator fans: NoiseBlocker BlackSilent Pro PK-3
- Exhaust fan: Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15
- Fan controller: Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme
- Fittings and adapters: TFC and BitsPower

Modding of the FT-02 detailed on XtremeSystems.org: http://bit.ly/jLUGvN

I am thrilled with the silence and excellent temperatures so far. With everything at stock under full stress load:
- CPU socket (Prime95 small FFT) : ~35°C (cores allegedly ~25°C)
- GPU cores (FurMark): ~35°C
- Northbridge (Prime95 small FFT): 30°C
- Southbridge (Prime95 small FFT): 31°C

Definitely worth all the money and time that went into this build!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• watercooling
• silverstone ft-02
• mod
• crosshair iii formula
• 1090t
• 5970
• ek
• waterblock
• sr-1 560
• radiator
• mcp35x

[wemmetje1]

wow incredible what 1 black ice sr1 560 can do

i have bougth 3 of these for my custom case

i will be cooling 3 phantom gtx 580 3gb versions and the newly released i7 3930k

the ram and the asus maximus 4 extreme(if they release a waterblock for it)

stay tuned on my channel :D

btw:my old rig is up for sale,plz take a look:D

[Roman2K]

@wemmetje1 Three 560s!? What kind of case are you building to house all this? An MM Ascension or something like that?

[wemmetje1]

@Roman2K it has no branding :D

i designed it with autocad specially to house 3 560's :D

its a little bigger than a 800 d but it is double wide like a caselabs th10 or so

i will have the case completed around newyear (then i'll put up a vid)

plz sub if u want to follow the build :D

[Roman2K]

@wemmetje1 Sounds awesome! I would love to see that fleshed out, you've got me subscribed :-)

[wemmetje1]

@Roman2K check my channel ;) got my radiators in the mail yesterday :D

[Roman2K]

@wemmetje1 Thanks for the heads up!

[JeBuSv20]

@roman2k what is the card length available to you with the rad installed and no fan above it, I am wondering if I would be able to put my 6990 in this case with the black ice GTX. (the gtx is about 3mm thinner than the SR1 from what I've read)

[Roman2K]

@llSmythll Wow, thanks a lot! I appreciate this a lot. I'd very much like to see what you'll come up with yourself.

[Roman2K]

@llSmythll The radiator is just sitting there. But it's such a close fit that it's held tight by the front and back panes. So much so that I'm sure it wouldn't budge even with the case upside down (radiator filled with coolant). Ideally, I would have screwed it to the bottom, but I could only get one radiator hole to line up with one of the case's. It would be better than nothing but my even numbers-OCD coerced me into preferring no screws than a single one ;-)

[llSmythll]

Best wc build Ive seen for a while