But this build is about being absolutely silent and cool without much airflow. The person I sold this machine to overclocked it to over 5Ghz, immediately. The tool is just sold out most of the time. Putting the IHS back on using der8auer Delid-Die-Mate 2. You can see the fresh high-temperature silicone around the IHS before putting it back on. They can easily by undervolted to be literally inaudible.ĭelidding the i7 6700K – putting liquid metal on the IHS and the die. Even though they look a bit different on the outside. The pump in the GTX1080 Waterblock (Alphacool Eiswolf GPX Pro) is the SAME. This will be the second pump in this build. It ensures, the pump always has enough water and never runs dry. So I added a 90° Adapter and connected that to a reservoir. Instead of the normal fans I put the better SilentWings3 on there.īigger fittings on the BeQuiet Pump (made by Alphacool). I removed the mainboard before transforming the build.Ī ASUS Maximus VIII Z170 with waterblock on the VRMs. Most important: head-lamp and iFixit Screwdriver kit.Īll The hardware that went into the machine No more Reserator.Īll the cooling will be in / on the machine now. Second Iteration - finished WaterMac Build:Īs you can see, the external cooling-tower is gone.
I used special coolant that stops corrosion of of mixed copper and aluminium parts. It can hold up nearly 2,5 liters of coolant. The passive radiator / reservoir is a “Zalman Reserator 1 plus” with new fittings. It is in the GTX1080 Waterblock (Alphacool Eiswolf GPX Pro). I made up my own water-block mounting for the original Zalman ZM-WB2 Waterblock. Internal Layout (without wifi card or Blu-Ray Drive, yet). Two holes for the extra thick tubing were added. The back, ATX Tray and front panel was done with kits from TheLaserHive. Modded Powermac G5 case with custom case-radiator and external passive radiator/reservoir. This is will be a gaming machine and Hackintosh workstation.