Kempez815's Project CM: Watercooling **56k**

[FarFarAway]

Thought I'd give you a quick whizz through my watercooling

The parts:

Watercooling kit:

1x Zern.at Socket 939 Copper/Nickel (Rates 2nd best waterblock on market by watercoolingplanet.de)

1x XSPC Dual Crossflow 120mm Radiator with mounts (fans can be fitted both sides).

1 x Panaflo 125cfm 120mm fan...very very loud fan it has to be said

1 x Vantec Stealth...musg get another: nice and quiet

1x Laing DD-12v D5 Pump (latest and greatest 12v pump on market)

1x Danger Den Fillport (for topping up your water)

3m (approx) of 1/2" ID Clearflex tubing

10x Jubilee clamps (best clamps to stop water leaks )

1x Bottle of UV Blue Dye

1x Bottle of Racing Coolant

Stripped out the entire case ready for insertion of parts. After some test fitting decided that I couldn't use the crossflow fan any more

After lots of hacking (all my holesaw bits were too small ) I managed to fit the Fillport. I think this took the longest!

After looking through NoL's suggestion of the water loop I hoked some up. Lickily I MSN'd this pic to XMS who told me that the pump pumped upwards!! WHOA

That^ would have produced a 20' fountain!!

Time to reconsider mefinks. Drilled some holes in the floor of the case for the pump instead and went with XMS's suggesed drawing

This part was pretty good fun and didn't take that long to do....hooking it all up was pretty fun actually

Dry loop ready for some H2O:

After some fussing with the water like little bit in...pump on...little bit more in...pump on...(etc) I got to this stage: firing it up for longer:

Left this overnight to go through. Not one leak *crosses fingers* *prays* so I put a touch more blue UV in, purple not being my colour, and we had a finished loop!

Time to get some componenets in mefinks!

Well it all went ok *sigh of relief* so I boshed on some UV for effect

Temps

I've only just finished but I left on my previous config with:

AMD Athlon 64 Opteron 175 @ 2.5GHz (250 x 10)

DFI LANPARTY UT SLi-D

Mushkin Redline 2gb (2 x 1gb) PC4000 running @ stock: 3-3-2-8 1:1

Sapphire X1900XT-X

OS Drive: Hitachi deskstar 160gb (partitioned)

Gaming Drive: 2 x 40gb Hitcahi Deskstars in RAID 0

Sound: SB Audigy 2 ZS

Initial temps:

Idle: 25-6*C

Load: 33-4*C

Load pic:

Now at 2.8GHz:

Load temps:

CPU-Z validation: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=78752

 

[Tec]

it looks very nice Kemp , nice job, hope temperature stays around 30s when u max your overclock

 

[FragTek]

Awesome mate!! Welcome to the wonder world of watercooling. :wavey:

I like ur uv orange fan on the back of the case, looks like the ones that I have

Now you MUST pop the IHS off that damn proccy and let her rip, MUST!

 

[JN]

Agreed frag, i saw a 5-7oc drop in load temps by popping my IHS off.

And nice job Kemp, looks uber sekc

 

[PV5150]

Love it kemp,grats to ya it's super tasty :worship: . Lot's n lot's of glowy goodness always gets me going

 

[Ham]

Nice job mate. How far you intending on pushing the opty?

 

[Raging]

/me wants watercooling:yumyum:

nice job kemp looks schweeet

now paint that other fan you lazy beeetch

 

[FarFarAway]

Thanks guys

I am gonna try some OC'ing today and see how I go. If the IHS needs to come off then it needs to come off

And as for the fan...imma getting rid of the panaflo on the rad as its faaaar too noisy. I'll most likely get another Vantec. If I can find my orange UV paint then I'll pimp out both the fans

 

[youpla]

congratz, very nice and clean W/C...

aare you planning to add your gPU in the loop?

 

[FarFarAway]

I think I will wait for G80/ATI's next gen before adding the GPU to the loop

 

[jiffz]

All I gotta say is gorgeous mate! :yumyum: Good job! A 20' fountain coming out of your rig would be an interesting feature!

 

[Eguy]

Yeah baby, welcome kemp looks fab.

 

[Carbine]

Might be a little late but i would've had the loop like this:

Pump-Rad-CPU-Res-Pump

and the T line wherever you want it.

But thats just my opinion

 

[FarFarAway]

Hi mate!

I don't have a res..but the idea is that it goes pump-cpu-rad-pump

This should get rid of the hot water from the CPU straight away