As some of you know, I've been planning to go water cooled for some time now. I actually bought most of my kit at the end of February last year. I've only now had the time to finally do this. I saw my first water cooled PC about 12 years ago on FM. Since then it's always something I've wanted to do.
This is how my PC looked before starting. There should be another 470 in there as well, but no pics of that.
I spent most of the morning preparing everything. I had to clean out the rads (PITA) and prepare my current rig. This involved removing the front, top, disconnecting some wiring, removing part of the HDD bays, removing video cards, and taking out the hard drives. I left the PSU and motherboard in.
In my excitement I forgot to take pics of my progress. I have the cooling all assembled and am leak testing the system.
Everything has gone fairly well so far. I had to put the factory top back on my pump as the pump wouldn't fit behind the rad on the floor with the XSPC top on it.
If all goes well tonight, I will be fitting my parts back into the case and should be able to see temps while folding. My i7 at 3.4GHz would hit as high as 80C sometimes while folding. I plan on running 4.0-4.2 folding with this. I've benched at those speeds no problem, but the H50 can't keep up.
This is how my PC looked before starting. There should be another 470 in there as well, but no pics of that.
I spent most of the morning preparing everything. I had to clean out the rads (PITA) and prepare my current rig. This involved removing the front, top, disconnecting some wiring, removing part of the HDD bays, removing video cards, and taking out the hard drives. I left the PSU and motherboard in.
In my excitement I forgot to take pics of my progress. I have the cooling all assembled and am leak testing the system.
Everything has gone fairly well so far. I had to put the factory top back on my pump as the pump wouldn't fit behind the rad on the floor with the XSPC top on it.
If all goes well tonight, I will be fitting my parts back into the case and should be able to see temps while folding. My i7 at 3.4GHz would hit as high as 80C sometimes while folding. I plan on running 4.0-4.2 folding with this. I've benched at those speeds no problem, but the H50 can't keep up.
