desktop pc + liquid fun

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my desktop computer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

and what it will soon be re-assembled inside.

good stuff. thanks goes out to pwnt by pat for selling me the waterblock, pump, and rad. good stuff - great price - shipped and delivered before i even got the chance to ask the tracking number. A+ seller.

anywho - comments questions?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

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[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Looks pretty cool to me.

Question...does it actually serve as a cooling devise, like a fan, or is it just for show?

Can you now take the fans out to make it quieter?

 

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why else would i put a radiator inside my computer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

the thing in the bottom left thats hanging is a copper heatsink plate with a plexi top that the water is channeled through - the heat from the processor is dissapated into the copper, and transfered into the liquid the same way that heat from your engine of your car travels through the engine block into the radiator fluid and into the radiator to be blown off by the fan. the front of my PC has a big 120mm brushless fan [barely audible] and it cools WAY better than activly air cooling [heatsink + fan]. i will overclock my PC - forcing it to run faster than it should because i can dissapate the extra heat it will produce.

its quite fun. and very practical - thats why apple sells G5's that are liquid cooled. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

SweeeeT!!!!

I want one of those......to bad I just can't justify the cost....

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I should do that for my new amps...run liquid coolant into the transformers to keep them cool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Except for the whole PCB-leaden thing...oh well.

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

i just pour coke on my laptop when it gets hot

 

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

you're such a nerd

spend your money on hookers instead

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

Haha, but seriously, isn't there a chance that it could leak and seriously mess some stuff up?

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

yes, but that's the chance you take with water cooling.

 

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yaaay it works.

any chance that the fittings in your house are going to break and leak in your walls? or what about all the gaskets and hoses in your car? do they break that often?

i highly doubt its going to be leaking anytime soon. and im over the 2ghz mark and only about 32 celcius. hopefully ill have that bumped up to about 2.4ghz quite shortly //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

sadly mark - there arent hookers in the suburbs. nor do i enjoy driving in the city to pick up VD hookers lol.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

Just a few questions:

Do you still have a fan on your video card?

Is it completely silent?

How hard is it to install?

 

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Just a few questions:
Do you still have a fan on your video card?

Is it completely silent?

How hard is it to install?

yes, can be, and not too hard.

i still have a little 60mm fan on the videocard, but you can buy waterblocks for your videocard and cool them down too - but IMO - its a bit overkill. some people go as far as to have a pum\radiator\waterblock for the video card, processor, and northbridge - THREE entire loops for each thing - i think thats retarded. but im not an ubergeek.

as far as dificulty? i had to cut a giant hole in the front of my PC to put the fan there, i used some cardboard and CA glue to make a little shroud\duct to direct air between the gap of the front 'facade' of the case and the metal chassis where the heatercore [radiator] is mounted.

so i had to do some fabrication. but it was like a 5\10 for me. ive done it before, i guess for a beginner it would be a bit harder. mounting the waterblock is just as hard as changing a heatsink. there are MANY guides - so theres alot of info on the net about it.

imo - not too hard.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

I should do that for my new amps...run liquid coolant into the transformers to keep them cool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Except for the whole PCB-leaden thing...oh well.

That's why you use distilled water, like Scott Buwalda did //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Anyways req....looks good meng.

 

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thanks as always squeakinator.

and jim, you could always get a metalshop to fab up some heatsink waterblocks for the mosfets and transformers and run a closed loop with antifreeze\water in there like i did with my copmuter.

easy as pie. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

I should do that for my new amps...run liquid coolant into the transformers to keep them cool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Except for the whole PCB-leaden thing...oh well.

I was thinking about doing the same thing, except the 20.1 has these channels in the heatsink. I was debating weather or not to run cooling through there, if it would be worth it.