Watercooling FAQ/guide

Bytor · Mar 9, 2008

Well the first top that cracked on me that I found on friday may have been from over tightening, but today I looked under my system and found a puddle of coolent coming from the second pump. After removing the pump and top I found a small crack away from any screw hole in a solid part of the top. These new OCLabs tops are not mach. but molded and are very thin walled. The XSPC tops and the like are mach. from thick stock.

You can say what ya like about plexi, but I will never use it in any of my blocks or pumps again.

Jarman · Mar 20, 2008

old thread revival

here's mine:

Mobo/Ram has changed since the pic was taken though

SirKeldon · Mar 21, 2008

Can't see your pics JarMan :confused:

Fitseries3 · Mar 21, 2008

Jarman said:
old thread revival

here's mine:

Mobo/Ram has changed since the pic was taken though

Jarman · Mar 21, 2008

ah sorry, there they are above

guess rapidshare wont let the images be linked directly

fairly neat wouldnt you say?? for the amount of hardware in there

1x pa120.2, 1x360 gts stealth, 2x laing DDC pumps, 1/2" pipe.

intel igent · Mar 21, 2008

Jarman said:
ah sorry, there they are above guess rapidshare wont let the images be linked directly fairly neat wouldnt you say?? for the amount of hardware in there 1x pa120.2, 1x360 gts stealth, 2x laing DDC pumps, 1/2" pipe.

lookin good!

got any more pix?

:toast:

Fitseries3 · Mar 21, 2008

i does look a little "tangled" if you ask me. try to make the res visible.

intel igent · Mar 21, 2008

fitseries3 said:
i does look a little "tangled" if you ask me. try to make the res visible.

hes got quite a bit of stuff stuffed in there, its not bad but shurely with more time spent on it could prolly look better

Fitseries3 · Mar 21, 2008

PEOPLE... please post more pics of your systems.

Fitseries3 · Mar 21, 2008

intel igent · Mar 21, 2008

as you requested

still not back together yet should be back up next week if i get my order on time

you get the idea

<check out my post count! "1337" :laugh:

you can view more pix and even vote if ya like @ http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1341.html

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jim2k · Mar 23, 2008

hi can any one advise me on a good external water cooling kit?

thanks

Jarman · Mar 23, 2008

people will probably slate me to the hills for saying this, but the koolance EXOS (and i actually have one and use it) is really good. I put a LAING DDC 10w in series with it and it cooled a quad core 3.8GHz and an 8800gtx. It was pushing it a little...but the damn thing managed it! ill post some more pics of my pc too.

Fitseries3 · Mar 23, 2008

koolance exos or corsair nautica are viable units. i wouldn't put anything other than a CPU on the loop though.

Jarman · Mar 23, 2008

the original koolance exos honestly handled the OC'd quad and the 8800gtx in the same loop. (had an extra pump in-line though)

intel igent · Mar 23, 2008

Jarman said:
the original koolance exos honestly handled the OC'd quad and the 8800gtx in the same loop. (had an extra pump in-line though)

pumps dont mean squat, its the rad/s that dissipates the heat

as long as you get/got between 1-1.5GPM flow youre good

why must it be external?

:toast:

Wile E · Mar 24, 2008

Here's a suggestion, just put together a custom kit, and shroud and mount the rad on a radbox.

Fitseries3 · Mar 24, 2008

Wile E said:
Here's a suggestion, just put together a custom kit, and shroud and mount the rad on a radbox.

perfect! that's what i was thinking.

intel igent · Mar 24, 2008

fits you got any extra tubing and coolant?

Fitseries3 · Mar 24, 2008

intel igent said:
fits you got any extra tubing and coolant?

i use distilled water. tygon/clearflex is expensive. PTS is best to get it at.

intel igent · Mar 24, 2008

fitseries3 said:
i use distilled water. tygon/clearflex is expensive. PTS is best to get it at.

i ask cuz im trying to figure somethng out for you

+1 on PTS! alex and quoc are TOP NOTCH!

:toast:

Fitseries3 · Mar 24, 2008

what's your idea? im open to listen.

jim2k · Mar 24, 2008

what about a corsair Nautilus500

jim2k · Mar 24, 2008

jim2k said:
what about a corsair Nautilus500

or this kit http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=266

Wile E · Mar 24, 2008

Neither will do nearly as well as custom.

System Name	"The Dark Spider"
Processor	AMD Phenom 9850 @ 3.0
Motherboard	Asus M3A79-T
Cooling	Water: CPU and GPU's, 2 pumps, 2 BIX Rads, D-Tek Fuzion v1, 2 Swiftech MCW60
Memory	4 gigs Crucial Balistix Tracers (1066 @ 1256)
Video Card(s)	Sapphire 4870x2
Storage	WD SATA 640 Gig HDD
Display(s)	Acer 24" beast...
Case	Modded Rocketfish
Audio Device(s)	Onboard (only use head phones)
Power Supply	700 watt
Software	a bunch
Benchmark Scores	3D Mark 06: 9859 on 2-X1950 pro's Xfire 3D Mark 06: 12794 on 1-3870 3D Mark 06: 16484 Xfire

Processor	Opty 165 @ 3011 MHz
Motherboard	DFI NF4 SLI-D
Cooling	Koolance Exos, DD TDX/Maze4 GPU
Memory	2GB G.Skill HZ DDR 500 Kit
Video Card(s)	XFX Geforce 7900GT
Storage	> 1.5 TB
Display(s)	XEROX 19" TFT
Case	Coolermaster ATCS 101
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-FI
Power Supply	OCZ 850W
Software	XP serv pack 2

System Name	The Phoenix (rev. 3.0)
Processor	Intel Core i9 9900K @ 4.9GHz (1.18V)
Motherboard	ASUS TUF Z390 PRO-GAMING
Cooling	Custom Full Loop w/EKWB & Swiftech components
Memory	32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHz (C15)
Video Card(s)	MSI GTX 1080 SeaHawk X EK @ 2.15GHz/5.5GHz
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO+ (2x500GB) + Toshiba X300 (4TB)
Display(s)	LG 29UM65-P (2560x1080 @ 75 Hz)
Case	Thermaltake Core V51
Audio Device(s)	Razer Kraken 7.1 & Scarlett 2i4 w/M-AUDIO BX5-D2
Power Supply	Corsair RM750 (ver. 2019)
Mouse	Logitech G700s
Keyboard	Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2
Software	MacOS 10.13.6 "High Sierra" & Windows 10 Pro x64

Processor	Opty 165 @ 3011 MHz
Motherboard	DFI NF4 SLI-D
Cooling	Koolance Exos, DD TDX/Maze4 GPU
Memory	2GB G.Skill HZ DDR 500 Kit
Video Card(s)	XFX Geforce 7900GT
Storage	> 1.5 TB
Display(s)	XEROX 19" TFT
Case	Coolermaster ATCS 101
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-FI
Power Supply	OCZ 850W
Software	XP serv pack 2

System Name	old school / new school
Processor	3.0e C0 @ 3.6 / e5200
Motherboard	p4p800e-dlx / p5q-DLX
Cooling	custom water see sig / air
Memory	2x1g oczPC4000EbPl / 2x2g ocz2rpr1066
Video Card(s)	3850AGP / 4890vaporX
Storage	36g raptor+120g wd / wd 1001fals 1tb
Display(s)	BenQ / sharpAQUOS LC-37D64U
Case	modded antec plusview / generic
Audio Device(s)	audigy 2zs / ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3
Power Supply	fan/cable modded powerstream 520 / OCZ 700mxsp
Software	Xp pro SP2 / VISTA ultimate OEM

System Name	The ClusterF**k
Processor	980X @ 4Ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12
Cooling	MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory	3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24 1T
Video Card(s)	Evga GTX 580
Storage	Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB, 2xSeagate 320GB RAID0; 2xSeagate 3TB; 2xSamsung 2TB; Samsung 1.5TB
Display(s)	HP LP2475w 24" 1920x1200 IPS
Case	Technofront Bench Station
Audio Device(s)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750
Power Supply	ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
Software	Win7 Ultimate N x64, OSX 10.8.4

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