me is back...

[mcmad]

been flippin busy with work..

time for a new project..

using one of fattys chillers to cool & maintain the water at ambient temps in its own box (stuck in the loft hopefully) with temp controller then feeding to a MM case & water cool the CPU, hard drives, gfx card, soundproofed & silent hopefully as it wont have any radiators or fans

pics to follow this week, still working on the control electronics for the water chiller.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Welcome back mate, it's been too long!

Looking forward to your project.

 

[mcmad]

right..

here goes

Take one water chiller (courtesy of fatty) & rip it apart ready for some temp control mods (& also removing that screaming 240v fan !)

ohhhhh.. hang on... whats that...

Bugger, the thermistor has a pot on it to adjust switch on temps.. hmmm if i can adjust that to just below ambient temps it would save me a sh*tload of work modding a controller..

anyhoo.. controller, PSU, decent papst fan, thermocouples, relays etc are all ready to be added..

more to follow...

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Nice. Ambient water temps around -5 degrees mate, hope you've got some condensation proofing ready

 

[mcmad]

up & running...

fully adjustable temp control from -5 to + whatever..

response time is quite large though but i can improve on that with better P/I settings on the controller..

Now to get it up into the loft & rip out the rads etc in my case & join the two of them.

will probably run it with water controlled at 15 degrees to start with (until I can find a supplier of armaflex to deal with condensation probs I would get going lower than 15...)

 

[mcmad]

reet..

connected up to pc now..

thats an FX-53 @ 2.8 Ghz (cooled by storm G4) & 6800 Ultra on stock (cooled by maze 4 plastic top), just after running 3d mark 05, raptor drives are cooled by silentstar blocks

water temp was set to 20 degrees & it seems to be holding..

quite pleased with that as the 6800 ultra especially gets frickin hot

 

[mcmad]

temps with external probes..