How are you cooling your graphics card? got something special/different? show it off.

PopcornMachine · Feb 23, 2011

PaulWog said:
wow some crazy stuff

Yes. That is wild, wacky stuff!

Nice job "Nick [D]vB".

Flibolito · Feb 23, 2011

A few of my external loop setup from last year. Really good on temps.

No pump or radiator in case.

During the fill.

Mock up of external setup for leak testing and such.

Taken with my iphone in the evening.

PopcornMachine · Feb 23, 2011

Flibolito said:
A few of my external loop setup from last year. Really good on temps.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110223/pre filling.jpg
No pump or radiator in case.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110223/Loop setup.jpg
During the fill.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110223/loop setup 2.jpg
Mock up of external setup for leak testing and such.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110223/iphone 1 044.jpg
Taken with my iphone in the evening.

Nice blue fluid. I want to do that. :cool:

Why is the tubing so long though? Does that affect performance?

Flibolito · Feb 23, 2011

The tubing is long since the radiator/pump and filling is about 5ft away from the computer. The tubing runs behind the TV, the entire system holds about 1.5gal and there is no reservoir. Performance wise is great, easy on the pump (not much elevation to pump through), the only restrictions are GPU/CPU block, radiator and the total dynamic head for the tubing. Super quiet and with the GPU @950MHZ (24/7 setting) on a GTX 480 it never breaks 42C. During bench setting it will get to 48C but thats with 1.162v 985MHZ core. The amount of liquid helps a lot too, gives it a long round trip and time to cool.

Nick [D]vB · Feb 23, 2011

Nice! External is the way to go, but it can be taken too far...

(not my system btw)

Flibolito · Feb 23, 2011

Yup, lol awesome setup in that pic, would be wick in the winter time

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PopcornMachine · Feb 23, 2011

Flibolito said:
The tubing is long since the radiator/pump and filling is about 5ft away from the computer. The tubing runs behind the TV, the entire system holds about 1.5gal and there is no reservoir. Performance wise is great, easy on the pump (not much elevation to pump through), the only restrictions are GPU/CPU block, radiator and the total dynamic head for the tubing. Super quiet and with the GPU @950MHZ (24/7 setting) on a GTX 480 it never breaks 42C. During bench setting it will get to 48C but thats with 1.162v 985MHZ core. The amount of liquid helps a lot too, gives it a long round trip and time to cool.

Yeah, I'm a water cooling novice. Good info thanks.

coodiggy · Feb 24, 2011

mussels said:
tried removing the metal shim?

LOL, went to Koolance.com and got me the right screws "fully threaded" instead of the spring loaded stock nvidia cooler screws that have a shoulder/set depth.. The new screws along with some new thermal pad and new thermal goo for my pair of vid-280

I got one mounted up and it settled flat onto the GPU core with good firm mounting onto the thermal pads... Getting closer to posting a pic of my cooling

now I just need some more stubby 1/2" fittings..

MT Alex · Feb 24, 2011

Nick [D]vB said:
Nice! External is the way to go, but it can be taken too far...

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40830&d=1298485689

(not my system btw)

Man, I have been wanting to do that forever, but it gets a little cold here for that. I have been tossing around the idea of a few holes in the subfloor and stashing my rads in the crawl space :laugh:

Mussels · Feb 25, 2011

MT Alex said:
Man, I have been wanting to do that forever, but it gets a little cold here for that. I have been tossing around the idea of a few holes in the subfloor and stashing my rads in the crawl space

when i get more permanent residency, i wanna do the whole rad under the ground thing. should work as a cheap air con replacement too.

gvblake22 · Feb 25, 2011

Salsoolo said:
rofl is this a joke? or real?

HAHA
The best one I've seen was someone that used staples (still all stuck together from the package) as heatsinks for RAM and voltage chips.

coodiggy · Feb 25, 2011

Mussels said:
when i get more permanent residency, i wanna do the whole rad under the ground thing. should work as a cheap air con replacement too.

Nice, My Brother and I were talking about doing something like that, using an underground sump tank with a couple pumps to bring water in and out of each computer/area; and a few loops of copper pipe outside of the sump tank as a heat dump... Though about using dry break quick connectors and having a few stations plumbed in the house; you could probly set yourself up with some kinda cooling blanket like the space suits or heatercore/fan combo for air chilling, or something like that if it ever got really hot in the house.. plug in and chill out

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Processor	i6 6600K
Motherboard	GIGABYTE Z170X UD3
Cooling	Thermaltake Frio Silent 14
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB)
Video Card(s)	ASUS Strix GTX 970
Storage	Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 1TB SSD
Display(s)	QNIX 27 Inch 1440p
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	On Board
Power Supply	Cooler Master V750
Software	Win 10 64-bit

System Name	WhiteWalker2020 / LAN Box
Processor	Intel i7 6900K 4.4GHz / 2500K i5@4.5GHz
Motherboard	MSI X99A Krait / Gigabyte Z68-UD3P
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Mouse	2x Logitech 610
Keyboard	Razer DeathStalker / Logitech G910 Orion Spark RGB Mechanical
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System Name	WhiteWalker2020 / LAN Box
Processor	Intel i7 6900K 4.4GHz / 2500K i5@4.5GHz
Motherboard	MSI X99A Krait / Gigabyte Z68-UD3P
Cooling	Full custom liquid / XIGMATEK HDT-Aegir
Memory	G.Skill 32GB DDR4 3000MHz/ 4x4GB G. Skill DDR1866 Sniper
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX1080Ti SC ACX 2.0, EVGA GTX 1070 SC ACX 2.0
Storage	950 Pro 512GB M.2, 960GB SanDisk Ultra II, Intel 730 480GB and 240GB, 850 EVO 250GB, 17TB Mechanical
Display(s)	39" AMH 399A (no glass) UHD , Wasabi Mango 42" UHD IPS, Samsung 55" 4K
Case	Thermaltake Core x9 / HAF 932 Red
Audio Device(s)	Realtek HD-Audio On-Board
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850W / Corsair 650TX
Mouse	2x Logitech 610
Keyboard	Razer DeathStalker / Logitech G910 Orion Spark RGB Mechanical
Software	Windows 10 Pro / Windows 10 64bit Professional

How are you cooling your graphics card? got something special/different? show it off.

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