Prommie clock done, now for the water :)

[gorby]

Hey there,

I need to consult some peeps with some good water cooling exp.

Im happy with my rig atm, (3.2 @ 4386 1:1) but now I wanna start work on my grfx / Northbridge. (the zalman isn’t enough )I don’t want to start putting more stuff outside the box and would prefer to house all the water cooling bits inside one unit so I was thinking about something like the cooler master aquagate

http://www.coolermaster.com.br/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=6&url_place=product&p_serial=ALC-U01&other_title=0

The specs are as follows

Dimension 220mm (L) x 148mm (W) x 88mm (H)

Case Material Aluminum

Fan Dimension 80x80x25 mm

Fan Speed 2000 / 3100 / 4600 rpm

Fan Bearing Type Rifle bearing

Fan Voltage Rating 12V

Noise Level 23 / 34 / 49 dB

Power supply AC power (indoor: 110V and 220V) and DC power (DC 12V)

Pump 110V, AC 9W

Power consumption DC 12V, 2.2 W

Water Block Material Copper and Acrylic

Weight 2kg (Main Unit) / 5Kg (Total)

Thermal Resistance Rca 0.31 / 0.25 / 0.23 C/W (tested with p4 3.06G)

Application AMD K7 (socket 462), K8 (socket 754/940) and Intel P4 (socket 478)

The best thing about this for me is that it fits inside 2 X 5 ¼ inch slots. From this picture it looks as if the cpu block could be changed,

and with some extra hose I could put the NB and grfx in the same loop. My only worry about this is as the unit is shipped with just the cpu block will the unit pump be powerful enough to cool two components. Well more like 4 components as I intend to use this ridiculous card mod from http://www.wassergekuehlt.de/ for my 9800 XT.

 

[Ferret]

Check my post here: http://extremeprometeia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32

TEC cooling is the only thing that is going to offer you extreme (bar another phase change unit).

Cooling the memory has unfortunately not given great results, from what I have read.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

I've got some OCZ ramsinks courtesty of DriverHeaven to test out. Gonna stick them on my 5950.

 

[mcmad]

dont bother with that gfx card cooler m8, no real gain in water cooling the memory & its restrictive.

Ive never seen that all in one unit before, it aint gonna be anywhere near as good as a custom 1/2 inch setup but if you dont have room then thats not going to be an option for you. Also taking the cpu out of the loop means you probably dont need a top end system

I'd recomend a maze 3 gpu block as its copper & probably a z chip block for the north bridge, although that is very restrictive also. Try & stick with copper for the blocks, much less hassle. Waterchill blocks are ok if the dangerden blocks cant be used, probably need different barbs for them though, not sure what the tubing size is for that all in one.

For gpu & NB a thermochill 120.1, eheim 1248 (get a 1250 if you can stretch to it), floppy bay res or criticool is plenty , but again its all down to having room to fit it.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

You can get a custom water cooling job to fit in a pc65 with the Mach II but I dont recommend it unless you are going to do it once and leave it. You will have very little room once everything is installed. I struggled with the waterchill and the Mach II so I dread to think how hard it would be to fit an Enheim etc.

 

[gorby]

First of thanks for all the feedback, this forum is really on the up, along with

EXPROM (my own elaborate acronym for extreme prometeia ) big up fer the phil meister in general.

Ive been in contact with the coolermaster guys about the above product and they say that all the fittings are snap on so buying extra hose / blocks would be no problem. I still want to get the silly card mod for my 9800, my ram clock with a zalman is useless (341) but the gpu is ok @ 450. A big part of this for me is asthetics and i just love the look of the fully water cooled 9800 and the cooler master bit on the front wich will go with my lian.

I have some pretty stong contacts with profs doing physics research at UCL and im pretty sure that I could get hold of some cheap 3M Fluro PF5080 to replace the water. Watch this space..

 

[Bennah]

I'd advise you not to get the memory water blocks, theres no point in them! Get some OCZ copper ram sinks and they will be just a good

For the gpu and NB I would use pelts. You can get a swifty gpu block that has a 80W pelt already inside it and it cools good. However I dont know any blocks that have pelts already inside them that could be put on the NB, you would have to buy the block, pelt, cold plates etc seperate and assemble it your self. If that feels too much messing about then just get a normal NB block.

In the future I plan to pelt my gpu and water my NB on my A64 once the Mach II is installed on the cpu

 

[gorby]

every one sais that! but i can only get my memory going at 390 with my zalman (nothing) and 395 with asus stock hs b4 artifacts come up. on epicurus's thread http://extremeprometeia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62

hes water cooling the same card and getting 434 on the memory!

Maby u just need to up the agp vdq?

 

[Brwmogazos]

Cooling the bga ram never got me any higher clocks...always used some ramsink...

so did you get any higher clocks in yours?