My Central Heating
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Central Heating II
I've decided to do a rebuild. While I'm pretty happy with the performance of Central Heating (obv), it runs far too hot (nearly 70C on load in a room at 18C) struggles to get stability on overclocking and is impossible to carry up 4 floors of stone spiral steps at uni (just moving in at the start of term is a nightmare).
Hence, the case is changing and financial circumstances have allowed me to indulge in a bit of watercooling.
The Cosmos looks great...I'll do some close up photos when I've finished leak testing.
But today, I went around a few places in the north to get the watercooling bits. (Scan isn't in Bolton, its actually 9 miles north...so I drove 125 miles buying odd bits).
Still, at the minute, I just need a case before I start a little watercooling loop.
The loop will be just cooling CPU and not northbridge...it leaks....after a good lake formed in the case.
I'm using:
-TFC Xchanger 240 rad with two shrouds and 2200rpm yates on a fan controller
-DDC Ultra with XSPC top
-4m tygon 1/2ID and wormdrives
-XSPC bay res (black)
-Delta V3 cpu block
-Asus Fusion Northbridge block (assuming it doesn't leak...it does, so this is off)
-Primochill steel blue UV
Just leaktesting now...
I've decided to do a rebuild. While I'm pretty happy with the performance of Central Heating (obv), it runs far too hot (nearly 70C on load in a room at 18C) struggles to get stability on overclocking and is impossible to carry up 4 floors of stone spiral steps at uni (just moving in at the start of term is a nightmare).
Hence, the case is changing and financial circumstances have allowed me to indulge in a bit of watercooling.
The Cosmos looks great...I'll do some close up photos when I've finished leak testing.
But today, I went around a few places in the north to get the watercooling bits. (Scan isn't in Bolton, its actually 9 miles north...so I drove 125 miles buying odd bits).
Still, at the minute, I just need a case before I start a little watercooling loop.
The loop will be just cooling CPU and not northbridge...it leaks....after a good lake formed in the case.
I'm using:
-TFC Xchanger 240 rad with two shrouds and 2200rpm yates on a fan controller
-DDC Ultra with XSPC top
-4m tygon 1/2ID and wormdrives
-XSPC bay res (black)
-Delta V3 cpu block
-Asus Fusion Northbridge block (assuming it doesn't leak...it does, so this is off)
-Primochill steel blue UV
Just leaktesting now...
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Finished (almost)
Today has been more about getting the setup into the case and wired in than doing things tidily. Also the PSU wires won't reach round the back of the motherboard, so there are quite a few on show
The northbridge fittings or the block itself leaked, so that had to be taken out...unfortunately, it was below certain other bits on the loop, so it went everyhwere while I took it out.
Anyway, it passed its 12hr leak test, but sprung a little leak when I moved it into its position on the desk, but that was solved by tightening up a barb and worm drive, which must have got knocked in assembly.
I also took the side fan out of the case, because it got in the way of the wiring to the graphics chips, and I reckon that the 88cfm fans in the roof can cope, with the xigmatek fan in the back and the coolermaster fan in the front.
Big thank you to TTL for doing such a great job with the case, beautiful powder coat, that even withstood a (accidental) screwdriver gouge. I also got rid of most of the neon, so I've got three lazer leds and two uv sticks in there.
Just for a side note, its very difficult to mount a wide radiator (e.g. black ice extreme, tfc xchanger) in the top of a cosmos if you have a heatsink on the top of your mobo...
Pics to follow shortly...
Today has been more about getting the setup into the case and wired in than doing things tidily. Also the PSU wires won't reach round the back of the motherboard, so there are quite a few on show
The northbridge fittings or the block itself leaked, so that had to be taken out...unfortunately, it was below certain other bits on the loop, so it went everyhwere while I took it out.
Anyway, it passed its 12hr leak test, but sprung a little leak when I moved it into its position on the desk, but that was solved by tightening up a barb and worm drive, which must have got knocked in assembly.
I also took the side fan out of the case, because it got in the way of the wiring to the graphics chips, and I reckon that the 88cfm fans in the roof can cope, with the xigmatek fan in the back and the coolermaster fan in the front.
Big thank you to TTL for doing such a great job with the case, beautiful powder coat, that even withstood a (accidental) screwdriver gouge. I also got rid of most of the neon, so I've got three lazer leds and two uv sticks in there.
Just for a side note, its very difficult to mount a wide radiator (e.g. black ice extreme, tfc xchanger) in the top of a cosmos if you have a heatsink on the top of your mobo...
Pics to follow shortly...
Pics Pics we all want PICS!
Lots of pics:
About the temperatures...after an hour of prime95, at 3.6 ghz, it could only muster 38,38,37,35C coretemp, 47,48,47,45C realtemp. (Which one to trust?)
Either which way, the idle is in the high twenties, low thirties (core/real) so I'm pretty happy.
And admire the powdercoat...:yumyum:
About the temperatures...after an hour of prime95, at 3.6 ghz, it could only muster 38,38,37,35C coretemp, 47,48,47,45C realtemp. (Which one to trust?)
Either which way, the idle is in the high twenties, low thirties (core/real) so I'm pretty happy.
And admire the powdercoat...:yumyum:
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But looks good dude, glad you are happy with it. Not bad for £120 eh?
But looks good dude, glad you are happy with it. Not bad for £120 eh?
Just thought I'd lob in a couple of quick pics of my setup at home. (The uni setup is similar, but with a longer desk, more books and one less computer and screen.
I normally only have the pico itx and big rig running, but sometimes its nice to be able to browse the internet and play itunes on one pc, while playing something on the other.
I normally only have the pico itx and big rig running, but sometimes its nice to be able to browse the internet and play itunes on one pc, while playing something on the other.
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LOL at that desk set up...... its like an evil villains lair
Thought I'd do a quick update today. A few weeks back, the a CD in the drive exploded (literally) so I've replaced that DVD drive with a new LG lightscribe writer, only to find, once the old one was cleaned, it still worked.
Also, the northbridge was running super hot, and my earlier attempts to cool that failed, so I've set up a second loop with a 120mm rad on the roof. I can now hit 4.0GHz, with 42C on the northbridge, so I'm happy:
Also, the northbridge was running super hot, and my earlier attempts to cool that failed, so I've set up a second loop with a 120mm rad on the roof. I can now hit 4.0GHz, with 42C on the northbridge, so I'm happy:
naveen.the.1
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man u need some cable mgmt.
Since the last update, I've bought another spinpoint for a raid 5 set up, a really cheap "raid" card (basically just a pcie x1 sata board with two slots), some drive rails and have got 5 drives running in the pc. To cool the extra disk, I've modified a dominator cooling fan I had kicking about which just fits in the 5.25 bay slot.
My next project is to get rid of the 120GB disk and buy two new 2.5" drives, an adaptor to stick the two into one 3.5" bay and run one as my server drive and the other as a convenient file transfer drive for windows 7 upgrades.
My next project is to get rid of the 120GB disk and buy two new 2.5" drives, an adaptor to stick the two into one 3.5" bay and run one as my server drive and the other as a convenient file transfer drive for windows 7 upgrades.
