Holy mammal..
65 pages of introductions.. That's like going to arena sized AA meetings..
Ohh well..
A bit about myself.. I hail from the cold north where polarbears roam the streets and we have nuclearpowered heaters in every home.. Or so some thinks, and I think it would have been a more exciting place to live.. But alas, Norway is a tickturd on the upper half of our whirly globe. I live in the capitol, nuff said. I've been busting computers since Commodore released the PC 10 MK3 .. or .. hmm was that PC30 MK1.. mehh.. well.. it was a 286 with 12mhz 1mb ram and a 20mb harddrive.. Things have progressed since then, from using Stacker to increase harddrive space and QEMM7 to get 639k conventional memory..
So it was written in stone that I had to work with computers, which is what I do for a living both building systems in hardware and making software for windows system, managing networks and do customer service... Brrr..
So.. why this oc3d forum?.. Well, I've been tasked by the wife to kill the noise of my current pc, to a less deafening level.. So, watercooling is the way to go.. And after absurd ammounts of research I've come to the conclusion of using Aqua-Computer components, as I've tried a few of their components earlier...
Now a little bakc history about my watercooling carreer.. It started out way back with Aseteks entry into watercooling (the ones that make phasecoolers called VapoChill) namely Waterchill.. It was a dual rad with chipset and GPU block aswell as a cpu block. I cooled my FX 62 with that, can't remember what chipset I had .. but my Gainward Gf4 Ti4600 Ultra worked pretty well with the block, Hydor pumps ain't the creme de la creme, but they work..
The system works like the Plug & Cool from Aquacomputer does (stiff hoses with just push on fittings, no hose clamps or anything). Well, being my first system, I kinda forgot to.. ehh fill it.. well that's not entirely correct, I kinda well, started growing plants in the tubes.. the cooling weren't affected but it Looked like I was running the stuff on cola as coolant..
Then Gainward released their CoolFX series.. I got my hands on a 6800 CoolFx kit.. The set was from innovatek (also german, but you all know that I guess
) with an overclocked Gainward 6800 ultra card.. Damn that thing was fast.. it was a single 120 radiator and 8x1 tubing all with compress nuts, ahh and eheim 1046 pump and a "push-on" tank. worked Extremely well, I added an Aqua-computer Couplex pro block for the cpu, worked extremely well with just 1 x 120 rad.. Gpu was topped out at 68C.. not cool, but not bad either..
Then I though, hrm.. I can get this better by upping from 8x1 tubes to 1/2" ID hoses.. So I bought DangerDen blocks for CPU and GPU, bought a Swiftech MCP655 and a swiftec MCRes525 ahh and an Aqua-computer EVO 360 radiator.. The Reservoir MCRES525 was a huge failure, the thing is made of plastic, with plastic barbs.. ofc the plastic leaked, so teflontape was applied, liberally, that sealed it.. and I fired it up.. impressive.. had to make a custom heatsink for the voltageregulators since the DangerDen GPU block ofc didn't cover those.. After a few weeks the thing started acting funny and I found that to my incredible joy that there was a tinsy winsy crack in reservoir and that there was now a nice spray (fine mist) comming from the barb when the system was chugging along (1/2" ID is really awfully huge tubes..) and that my 6800 ultra was covered in what looked like molasses, brown sticky substance.. but it didn't short the card and it hadn't hit anywhere else.. strange.. Anyway.. that settled it for me and I dropped watercooling until now.. Now my Zalman 9700CU cpu cooler + 2x 9800GX2 cards makes too much noise.. Hence the need for upgrade/silence.
What I'm getting now? Well, my old case has a nicely cut hole for a 3x120 radiator, but I don't feel like swapping out components between 2 system, even when the switch makes sense. So I went looking for external systems. Which lead me to the Aquaduct from Aqua-computer. The one in question is the 360 XT MK2. So that's comming, along with 2x 9800GX2 blocks, i790 chipset cooler + 2x mosfet coolers, 1xCouplex XT Di for the CPU, 1x120mm Airplex XT radiator (just to add more cooling), 16m of tubing (hey who said you could get enough tubing?!?!?) and a bunch of G1/4 and G1/8 (elbows and straights) barbs, all with 8x1 compression barbs.. Now I don't have to cut anywhere in my LianLi PCV2100B cabinet, which suits me just fine.
So, any questions?
PM me if you like.. Apart from that..
Have a terrific day, may the sun make you tan..
-Bubba
It was mostly GavX's fault (its also his fault I registered here).
Was a Crappy Thermaltake Kit Thou
