just got the custom water cooled system hooked up!

just got it all up and running last night, and I am loving it! The 9850 is over clocked to 2.9 stable with a bump in Vcore to 1.32. Temps are at 28C Idle. Next up will be to get the 4800 series Ati card and water cool it also. New pics are taken check them out guys! Batteries were dead thats why they were blury

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lol

Had you been drinking to celebrate when you took those?

new pics are up guys I edited my first post and the pics have been changed out. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks Vertigon, My first water build and the only problem I ran into is that the thermaltake flow meter was stripped out where it hooks into the plastic and leaked right off the bat. I used some steel puddy from wal-mart and it fixed the problem. It is pretty nuts man, I used a bigger auto radiator instead of one off of danger den, so this thing is just awsome! The fan is a 12" Honey well I got at Target, that runs off of 110 volt, and it move some AIR! I was going to mount 4 12volt to it and put the Radiator on the side of the case but this worked out much better.

Why yes it is, a SATA one, got two of them of the egg and one at best buy.

I ve got a little over $300 into it but I have extra parts and just need to pick up another pump and a cpu block for my 6400+ build with the 8800GTS 512mb and I ll have it water cooled also. I don't believe I will have any problems adding a GPU block to this loop or even two when I crossfire this system.

Lol. Water cooled 2.9. You sure know how to waste money. That extra 400MHz musta been hot!

If I were to build a slow system like yours I'd use air. If I wanted to go over 4.0 I'd use water.

To each his own. Have fun.

Sounds good have fun cranking her up.

I went with a Reserator XT, which was a good starting point, but I added a Swiftech Apogee GTX and switched the pump for a Laing DDC Ultra 18W with an XSPC top. I'll be changing the plumbing from 8/10mm to 1/2" soon, and will be running the XT's radiators in parallel, as they have a pretty small bore, at least until I can fit better rads into the XT case. I should be able to manage a ThermoChill PA120.1 and PA120.2 with a bit of cutting on one side. One side has to be a single as the flow meter is on that side.

Water cooling is an investment that can be taken from one upgrade to the next, so long as you're not going crazy with GPU blocks (I've got a pair of full cover blocks for my GTS512s, that came to £120, but I'll probably OC the cards when I do the 1/2" + rad upgrade).

9800GX2 blocks are almost as much as the cards.

You still need to work on the photography skills. Better then the first set for sure but try more light in the room or add the flash. But you will love the watercooling, glad I made the change.

Stoner133,
I will get my girlfriends dad's camera today and take some better pics for everyone. I have the 9850be overclocked to 2.9ghz, bumped the multi to 14.5 and dropped the ht link multi to 9 from 10. I also dropped the ram to 800mhz instead of 1066. No problems yet.

Thanks xtlkxhom3r, I am happy with it for my first go around with water cooling. Let me know how yours turns out.

Vertigon,

Building custom homes is my day job, along with custom Granite contertops, custom furniture and alot of other things. I am building a earthship, with a Yurt I designed on top of the earthship, down in Bloomington Indiana on my 5 acres of land. Earthship, Yurt, sounds crazy right?? Well google it online if your interested but I is a rammed earth home made of tires, yes auto tires, LOL with a green house on the front of it facing the south east to get solar gain. It stays a consistant 58-60 degrees all year long, with very little heating or cooling running. It is mud or cement stoccoed on the inside and use's the concept of thermal mass, which the tire walls act as batteries instead of insulating 2x4 or 2x6 walls. I am very much into green building and design and should have it all built in about a year or two. If I keep building custom computers though it my be set back a bit, LOL.