As I posted before I finished my second revision of my watercooler, and I promised for some pics. Well here they are:
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image001.jpg" target="_new">My radiator tower (my case is to full to host it inside) made by K'Nex</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image007.jpg" target="_new">My resevoir: yellow tube water out, transtube water in, valve to fill it and a level meter to check the waterlevel</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image005.jpg" target="_new">Back of the case... look at all the tubes</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image008.jpg" target="_new">View radiators from above... here you can see my self made radiator</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image003.jpg" target="_new">Picture of cooltower and case from the front</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/Image009.jpg" target="_new">Picture of all LEDs burning</A>
And here are the full specs:
Rig:
AMD AthlonXP1600+
Abit KG7-RAID
Corsair PC2400 CAS2 DDRRAM 2*256MB
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB
SoundBlaster Live! Player
Sitecom Realtek 10/100Mb NIC
3.5" Generic FD
5.25" Generic FD (Yes... a large old one... just for fun, almost never use it)
HP 9500i 12x8x32x CDRW
Toshiba M1502 16x48x speed DVD
ASUS 50x CDROM
Seagate Medialist 6GB ATA33 HD
Maxtor DiamondMax60 (I think) 15.3GB ATA66 7200rpm
2*20GB Seagate Barracuda IV 20GB ATA100 7200rpm special RAID-version HDs in RAID 0... soon to be replaced with two 40GB drives because of one drive going weird.
DigiDoc5 8 sensors
Codegen BigTower
Codegen 350W PSU (powers CDROMs, FDs and fans)
Enermax 350W Dual-fan PSU (powers mobo and HDs)
13 fans inside case
Passive cooling:
Heatspreader on RAM
RAMsinks on videocard memory
Heatsinks on: SouthBridge, Realtek NIC chip, EMU10k1 SB Live! chip
Active cooling (air):
3 fans inside PSUs
2 HD fans
6 casefans (bottom 92mm, left side 80mm, top 80mm, rear 60mm, 2*front 80 and 40mm) temp controlled by DigiDoc5
1 PCI slot fan (40mm)
1 120mm Delta HP radiator fan controlled with some resistors and rheostat
Watercooling:
Resevoir (about 3-4L) made of an old aluminium soup kettle
1300 L/h Sicce Hydra pump inside resevoir
Swiftech MCW-462B waterblock with small holes drilled into the copper baseplate to increase surface
Koolance GPU and NorthBridge waterblock aluminium
Innovatek flowmeter (without rpm signal)
HWLabs Black Ice 1 radiator
Self made 3-pass radiator made from some 10x12mm copper pipes and a Coolermaster DP5-5G11 aluminium heatsink
WaterWetter
Temps under normal load (Win2k, IE6):
CPU: 34C
Mobo: 35C
GPU: 29.5C (waterblock temp)
NB: 22.8C (waterblock temp)
Nothing OC'ed... yet.
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Only radiator fan on and 3PSUs fans running.
Casemods:
92mm hole bottom, 80mm hole left side, 60mm hole back, 80mm hole top, space to mount second PSU.
6 LED in front panel to show which fans are running
3 switches to control: HD fans, PCI slot fan and drive lights
5 LEDs in front panel at the places of FDs and CDROMs so I can find the button in the dark (drive lights).
I also painted my case darkblue
What are your opinions?
My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .
Thanks... I tought it was the best solution, I could have used some Mecano (spelling?) but that is not as strong as K'Nex.
I also got a plan for revision 2.1 (the above is 2.0): I want to replace the standard inlet connection of my CPU waterblock with a larger one to increase waterflow.
My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .
can you post some more pictures? of the peltier and stuff too. oh and please see if you can use more light (so i can actaully see) and don't shake the camra (so its not so hard to make out what things are) when you take the pictures.
i love the idea of you showing us your pc, but i can't really see much.
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If you remove the name of the picture you will enter the dir where there are more pictures.
These pictures are made with a webcam so the quality is not supreme... but I will try to use more light for the next pics which I'm gonne take Friday (inside pics included ).
And I can give you a picture of my peltier... but I don't use it in this setup at the moment... that will be something for WaterCooler revision 3.0.
My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .
So everyone could immitate my watercooling setup.?. I jsut got a plan in my head and try to figger out how I can make it best when building.
Rev 2.1: bigger hose towards CPU waterblock.
Rev 2.2: valves so I can disconnect my cooltower from my fulltower without loosing much water.
Rev 3.0: adding peltier to the CPU waterblock.
Rev 3.1: adding peltier to the NB waterblock.
Rev 3.2: when needed: adding additional radiator.
My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .
I really like the idea of disconnects. I'm going to make a design and then send it to you. I'll have you critique it and then we'll go from there. (jsut don't expect to much )
Here are some more pics:
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0015.jpg" target="_new">Open case</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0016.jpg" target="_new">Close up of mobo and cards</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0018.jpg" target="_new">Close up of PSUs and CDROMs</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0021.jpg" target="_new">View of videocard</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0029.jpg" target="_new">Good pic of components</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0002.jpg" target="_new">Another (better) pic of my GPU</A>
<A HREF="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~svo/rig/0025.jpg" target="_new">Back view of self-made radiator</A>.
My peltier is so powerful I get Bose-Einstein Condensate beneath it .
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