Water Cooling Pics

[otterman]

Anyone got any water cooled rigs?

I'm pricing mine together atm.

I'm about to order my new case so I can start to map out my tubing, radiator, reservoir, and pump before I actually fork out the money for all the parts.

I'm planning on making my own reservoir and using some custom Autozone stuff for my radiator.

I'm doing a VGA and CPU water block.

Any how! Post them up! I should have mine running soon.

[Looneybomber]

When you get it done, let us (me) know how noisey it is. I've been pondering ways to water cool my subwoofer motors to keep away the ugly heat gremlins. Water cooling does look to be a bit expensive though.

[otterman]

I got it roughly priced a little over $200. I'm doing a bit of custom stuff though.

[PoorManQ45]

The most expensive parts are the water blocks.

everything else can be gotten customly

[otterman]

Pump and blocks are the main things I'm spending money on

[PoorManQ45]

Only buy the specialty blocks.

Get the pump from an aquarium store. And even that is overpriced. Go to a plumbing wholesale supply house. Grainger would have what you need.

[otterman]

What do you mean by specialty blocks?

[PoorManQ45]

The water blocks.

You know, for the CPU, GPU, chipset, etc... Those are all specialty items that you cant really make yourself very easily.

[otterman]

Ohh ok I got you.

When you said specialty block I didn't know you ment water block lol

[Looneybomber]

The water blocks.

You know, for the CPU, GPU, chipset, etc... Those are all specialty items that you cant really make yourself very easily.

Oh I'm going to have to look into this water cooling a bit more. Now I am a bit intrigued. You could even place the radiator in a minifridge to cool parts down, but not too much or else condensation could build up.

[otterman]

Yeah I thought about doing something like that.

I need to start checking out the modding forums I guess.

I mainly want it because my computers loud as hell and it's getting old.

[Beancooker]

If you want quiet, get an aquarium pump. I have one on my 75 gallon tank, and it is absolutely silent.

[brizanden]

mines be quiet. its a big water thermaltake kit(with added rice lights)

[Looneybomber]

If you want quiet, get an aquarium pump. I have one on my 75 gallon tank, and it is absolutely silent.

Is it safe to pump propylene glycol (anti-freeze) through those, or should a person just stick with Water Wetter? With those Cu waterblocks, some kind of anti-corrosion additive is a must.

[PoorManQ45]

You should be fine. The seals on most of these pumps arn't sensitive rubber.

I'm wondering what you guys are getting for temps. I'm aircooled and hovering within 3 degrees of ambient

[brizanden]

im around 30 degrees celsuis under load with my 2.44 ghz duo oc'ed to about 3.1 ghzim thinking about getting a block for my graphics card so that might increase the temp a bit, but i also want a bigger bump and disc slot resivor here soon.

[Looneybomber]

You should be fine. The seals on most of these pumps arn't sensitive rubber.

I'm wondering what you guys are getting for temps. I'm aircooled and hovering within 3 degrees of ambient

Your CPU is 3 above ambient while under a load?! What do you have for cooling fans?

Most importantly how LOUD is it?

[brizanden]

lol i used to use the box fan on my comp before i went liquid lmao.

[PoorManQ45]

I'm using the NZXT Tempest with a ZEROtherm Nirvana NV120

Currently running a X2 5400+. Just overclocked to 3.1GHz.

The temp I quoted was idle. Stock temps I've hit maybe 100degrees while gaming. Room temp raises to like 80 degrees. LOL. OCed it's a degree or two higher

[Looneybomber]

The temp I quoted was idle. Stock temps I've hit maybe 100degrees while gaming. Room temp raises to like 80 degrees. LOL. OCed it's a degree or two higher

My current computer has an Athlon64 3400 or 3800. During the winter, ambient temp is 88-95º depending on what wood we're burning at the time. Keeping CPU temps down while gaming is tough.

My new comp I want it to stay cool and quiet...while using a Phenom 9950.

[PoorManQ45]

Check out the ZeroTherm coolers.

During the winter ill open the windows in my room and itll get to 40~50 degrees. Then overclock the hell out of the system

[liteemup39496]

for good measure

watercooling kit consist of Thermochill HE120.3 rad, Swiftech Storm G4 cpu, Swiftech Stealth GPU, MCW30 chipset, Liang D5 vario pump. EK250ml Res, Tygon 1/2in id - 3/4in OD tubingdistilled water, cap of zerex super coolant and about 25 drops of feser black UV dye

rig= e6600 @ 3.4ghx (426x8 1.30v) gigabyte p35-ds3r8gb ddr1000 gskill ram ($175 shipped cant go wrong)8800gts 320mbxfi xtreme music6 hard drives

yea ima car nut and a nerd... owell

edit: my rig is completely quiet, barely audible i am getting currently as of typing this about 44c across the board, mind you ambient is 90f . night time or early morning it idles low 30s, winter time we will see how low she goes.

btw most expesive things in your loop should be the rad and pump. if youpln to stay WCing i suggest buy the best rad you can afford ie feser or thermochill. blocks can be had for 50-60 bux as for pumps do not skimp out on a decent pump you will pay for it if you do. either d5 or if you wanna go aquarium pump i suggest the pondmaster series get the 200gph or better i have a 900gph and its huge and heavy and loud as **** but she can mooooooove some water

[brizanden]

dude the new racing grade radiators from thermaltake are pretty sweet... lmao car radiator in my computer? im down.