Wall mounted, Water cooled PC (The RecoilMachine)

[Recoil P]

Hi all,

Having been inspired by a few other wall mounted PCs, I decided to build my own.
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I used my existing hardware, but separated each component out and mounted them on a Perspex/Plexiglass plate. Each plate is backlit with LED's and mounted on a piece of framed and vinyl-clad hardboard.
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2 months, around 20 individual shipments of components from three different continents, and countless hours of hard work later, 'The RecoilMachine' is ready and hanging on my wall.

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I have also uploaded a video of the rig on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXiyYCbPrt0http://forums.anandtech.com/www.youtube.com/user/RecoilProduction



The water-cooling system is a simple loop that covers both GPUs and the CPU, and bleeds the heat through one 360mm radiator wih three 120mm fans running at 1200 rpm. The pump is running at its lowest setting, which is still easily enough to keep temperatures down. Consequently, the whole system is very quiet.
Idle temps for CPU and GPUs are 38 C, and 32 C respectively.
Load temps for CPU and GPUs are 63 C, and 68 C respectively.
The temperature of the water in the loop never exceeds 30 C.

◄ Main System specs ►
Gigabyte EX58-UDP5 (Rev 1.0)
Intel Core i7 920, 2.66 GHz
Asus GTX 590 1.5GB
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SSD
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black Hard Drive
Seagate 1TB Hard drive

◄ Water cooling specs ►
Aquacomputer Cuplex Kryos Delrin CPU water block
Alphacool Laing D5 Vario Pump
Monsoon Series Two Dual 5.25in Reservoir
Alphacool NexXxoS NVXP NV 590 Series GPU water block
Phobya G-Silent 12 1200rpm Fans, Black Silent Edition
Black Ice GTS-Lite 360 Radiator
Masterkleer Tubing PVC 19/13mm
19/13mm Compression Fitting 45° Rotary G1/4
19/13mm Compression Fitting 90° Rotary G1/4


The system is overclocked around 30% using a simple BCLK and voltage buff in the BIOS.
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Let me know what you think

 

[rumpleforeskin]

Thats a good looking monument to technology, backplate looks excellent.
Your link to the youtube demo does not work though, I had to look it up manually.

Have you thought about routing the wires that run to your workstation behind the wall? It would look great with no visible external connections.

 

[88keys]

Looks pretty nice. With everything out in the open like that, you should get some fantastic temps.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

That's cool looking. I'm somewhat surprised a major case manufacturer doesn't pre-fab something like that since all the components are pretty standardized now.

 

[deerslayer]

That looks awesome!

 

[Tweakin]

Love the ribbon cable for your pci-e connection. That' cool!

Talk about thinking "outside" the box.........

 

[Recoil P]

Thats a good looking monument to technology, backplate looks excellent.
Your link to the youtube demo does not work though, I had to look it up manually.

Have you thought about routing the wires that run to your workstation behind the wall? It would look great with no visible external connections.

Thanks for the compliment, and for letting me know the link didn't work. All fixed now

 

[_Rick_]

Well, there's a missing metal clip on that RAM

 

[Kenmitch]

Looks nice

Too bad storage drves be ugly.

 

[Recoil P]

Looks nice

Too bad storage drves be ugly.

Yeah - I was trying to come up with a way to solve that, and considered using the same black vinyl as on the board itself, but then the drives would just sort of disappear from view.
Work in progres....

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Yeah - I was trying to come up with a way to solve that, and considered using the same black vinyl as on the board itself, but then the drives would just sort of disappear from view.
Work in progres....

They make silicone drive sleeves that look like this:

You'd just need to cover the middle while making sure not to cover any ventilation holes.

 

[Recoil P]

They make silicone drive sleeves that look like this:

You'd just need to cover the middle while making sure not to cover any ventilation holes.

Thanks. That might be an idea.

 

[ddogg]

Wow, that is something really unique. Thumbs up!

 

[Recoil P]

Wow, that is something really unique. Thumbs up!

Thanks mate

 

[aigomorla]

to my understanding risers were not able to supply enough base current to high end cards.

are you having any problems with your gpu not responding?

If you start noticing some werid things with your GPU, id first be suspicious of that riser.

Otherwise great setup!

 

[Recoil P]

to my understanding risers were not able to supply enough base current to high end cards.

are you having any problems with your gpu not responding?

If you start noticing some werid things with your GPU, id first be suspicious of that riser.

Otherwise great setup!

I have not been having any problems running games or benchmarks, so it seems to be working fine.

 

[Recoil P]

Well, there's a missing metal clip on that RAM

I know. I have had to re-order from the supplier. Amazing that they dont do a count before sending stuff.

 

[recordingpro]

Rock on!

 

[FAQdaworld]

Looks pretty awesome in my opinion. Wish i had the room on my wall to do something like that!

 

[Recoil P]

Looks pretty awesome in my opinion. Wish i had the room on my wall to do something like that!

I had to take a lamp down to fit it

 

[BFGTech]

wow, looks great

 

[DigDog]

that PCI-E cable is really a stroke of genius.

 

[Recoil P]

that PCI-E cable is really a stroke of genius.

About $90, but worth it

 

[mcginnis]

That looks amazing! Good work. Is it pretty silent?

 

[Recoil P]

That looks amazing! Good work. Is it pretty silent?

Thanks.

Yeah is is pretty quiet. Especially under load, where the GTX590 used to be very loud, it obviously produces no sound now. Just the soft whirr of the pump.