My watercooled PC75

[Phil Stanbridge]

Just a little something for this watercooling gallery.

My PC75 - with two 120mm blowholes for the thermochill 120.2, an 80mm blowhole for the res, a custom cut in the hd caddy for the Enheim 1250, UV green tubing (that needs a little shortening), a RBX DD cpu block, and a Maze 4 gpu block.

Good temps too with my 53.

40 degrees idle, 55 degrees under load.

Rad 9800XT is 60 degrees under load.

water is 30 degrees average

 

[nick25]

are they good temps? also why you w/cing and not using your GT?

loving your cable-fu btw.

 

[aXeR]

thats sexy phil, gives me a good insight to how my PC 75 will look wen i get water cooling too thanks buddy

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

are they good temps? also why you w/cing and not using your GT?

loving your cable-fu btw.

I sold the GT mate, needed some extra cash so watercooling will suffice. Besides, its now silent, all I can hear is the 14db Silenx fans and this is what matters to me moreso than performance.

The temps are good. On the stock heatsink the temps were in the top 60's.

 

[Warlord Shigs]

I sold the GT mate, needed some extra cash so watercooling will suffice. Besides, its now silent, all I can hear is the 14db Silenx fans and this is what matters to me moreso than performance.

The temps are good. On the stock heatsink the temps were in the top 60's.

so wat do u ave that fx-53 clocked at with ur w/c setup?

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

so wat do u ave that fx-53 clocked at with ur w/c setup?

At the moment, 2.8ghz stable, but I will try for more.

 

[nick25]

2.8 on water is awesome, weren't you only hitting 3ghz on phase?

 

[aXeR]

think he got to 3.1 but it was kinda killing his mac2 GT, temps were pretty hot

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

think he got to 3.1 but it was kinda killing his mac2 GT, temps were pretty hot

yeah the Gt was overkill for the FX53 really - I can hit 2.9 now with this water setup - so an extra 200 - 300mhz didnt really make a lot of difference.

 

[legion]

yeah the Gt was overkill for the FX53 really - I can hit 2.9 now with this water setup - so an extra 200 - 300mhz didnt really make a lot of difference.

Hi Phil,

what vcore is required to get the fx to 2.9 mate?

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

1.75v mate, it overvolts a tad. I've still got a volt modded board here I am tempted to rig back up - this water solution is pretty good. I reckon I could get away with 1.85v @ 3.0ghz stable.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Just an update, I've cut the tubing to the correct length now as well as a couple of minor adjustments and its made a massive improvement. My temps are 10 degress better across the board - my cpu is now 35 degress idle, and 45-50 under load, which is amazing, considering on the stock heatisnk it gets to 70 degrees! My water temps are similar, at around 28-29 degrees, and my GPU is around 60 degrees under load. My system temps are still way too hot at 30 degrees + and I've no idea how to remedy this really, unless I replace the silenx fans with noisier variants which goes against what I was trying to achieve. Still working on it really, but its looking good. Its nowhere near as powerful as it was with the GT though!

 

[aXeR]

i wish i lived closer to you phil, i would so pop in with some beers and come see your case man

Cant wait to get mine

 

[mcmad]

Just an update, I've cut the tubing to the correct length now as well as a couple of minor adjustments and its made a massive improvement. My temps are 10 degress better across the board - my cpu is now 35 degress idle, and 45-50 under load, which is amazing, considering on the stock heatisnk it gets to 70 degrees! My water temps are similar, at around 28-29 degrees, and my GPU is around 60 degrees under load. My system temps are still way too hot at 30 degrees + and I've no idea how to remedy this really, unless I replace the silenx fans with noisier variants which goes against what I was trying to achieve. Still working on it really, but its looking good. Its nowhere near as powerful as it was with the GT though!

sounds more like it mate, was a bit concerned when i saw your temps, then noticed all the tubing

As for system temps, whatever it is measuring them is probably wrong

Not possible for water temp to be lower than system temp, case air is being drawn through your rad to cool the water, the lowest possible temp your water can be is system temp + 1 or two degrees, so either water temps are wrong or sys temps are wrong (you reading these through mobo bios ?)

have a look at my temp graphs when I watercooled in a PC75

http://www.mawhyte.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/temps.JPG

Ambient - probe outside the case - 25 deg

case - probe hanging over mobo - 28 deg

water - probe in water - 29 deg

Hard disks - probe stuck between 2 HD in my HD water block - 32 deg

CPU - probe touching die - 37 load - 33 idle.

Only possible way it could be true in yours is if you are ducting the rad air from the outside. If you have lots of holes with no fans, try blocking them to force the rad to draw case air instead.

 

[Legguk]

thats sexy phil, gives me a good insight to how my PC 75 will look wen i get water cooling too thanks buddy

yeah nice case phil mountinmods next!