- Apr 3, 2010
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New to posting, been kicking around the forum for a while, researching water cooling. I'm an engineer and pipe fitter by trade, so this is kind of fun. I'm building a WC system to greatly reduce fan noise, and allow some modest OC. Build is i7, Asus P6d board, and a TBD video card(s) also water cooled. I liked the build of the HAF 932, lots of room in the case.
My first intent was to build a natural circulation natural convection radiator external to the case. I realized I need some benchmark data if I'm going to do that right, and something to fall back on during the design development. So in looking over the case I decided to top mount some radiators; but instead of using the traditional 120X3 I installed two each 92X2 rads. This will be cooled by a stunningly quite 230X200 mm case fan, which fits great over the rads. In fact if I need more cooling I'l add another set of two rads and one fan; second loop for GPUs. The 92X4 rads (black ice extreame) offer ~34K of square mm surface area, 68 if I add a second set for gpu cooling. A 3X120 provides ~43K square mm of cooling and loud fans.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried this before, if there are any problems ahead others can point out. I would love a few pictures or some performance expirience with the 2X92 rads.
Also wondering about tubing, The MB blocks are from EK, and in some metric sizes (their in the mail atm), and the balance of the system is 1/2 inch barb. I'll figure it out, just wondering if anyone else has done the work already.
Thanks all and love the forum!
My first intent was to build a natural circulation natural convection radiator external to the case. I realized I need some benchmark data if I'm going to do that right, and something to fall back on during the design development. So in looking over the case I decided to top mount some radiators; but instead of using the traditional 120X3 I installed two each 92X2 rads. This will be cooled by a stunningly quite 230X200 mm case fan, which fits great over the rads. In fact if I need more cooling I'l add another set of two rads and one fan; second loop for GPUs. The 92X4 rads (black ice extreame) offer ~34K of square mm surface area, 68 if I add a second set for gpu cooling. A 3X120 provides ~43K square mm of cooling and loud fans.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried this before, if there are any problems ahead others can point out. I would love a few pictures or some performance expirience with the 2X92 rads.
Also wondering about tubing, The MB blocks are from EK, and in some metric sizes (their in the mail atm), and the balance of the system is 1/2 inch barb. I'll figure it out, just wondering if anyone else has done the work already.
Thanks all and love the forum!
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