Water cooled PC, 1337 roxorzzz!1!1!!!! Options

[Uppitycracker]

Well Im going to do it for christmas, Im going leet, Im sick of hearing my fans whining when Im playing games, and the fact that theres 8 in my box total it sounds like an airplane idleing beside me Also I wanna push my p4 2.8e up to atleast 3.5 and get my x800 around 600mhz.

This list of stuff for the most part is pretty generic, the pump is quite sufficient. I opted for the less atractive heater core since it cheaper and works better then the radiators made for pc's.

Because of the size of the rad it probably going to be mounted outside the computer which will be better for cooling anyways.

Double Heater Core Radiator, 11" x 6 1/8" x 2" - $34.99
Danger Den Fill port - $11.95
Hydo L25 Pump, 185gph - $37.95
Barbed Polypropylene T - $1.75
10ft Clearflex60 Tubing - $10.00
20x Adjustable Plastic Hose clamp - $15.00
Clear Cylindrical Reservior -$25.00
Maze4 CPU Block - $36.70
Maze4 GPU Block - $39.95
8x Ramsinks - $19.95
4oz Water Wetter - $3.50

Total - $236.74 + shipping

all 1/2 pipe size

Anyone here have experience with water cooling? any tips, tricks, pics? Ive read up quite a bit on the parts needed and am confident my list of parts will do very well. I also read up on kits that are available and for anyone insterested in water cooling the Kingwin Artic cooling kit has had nothing but good reviews and only cost 99USD, though its not great for OC applications it reduces noise to almost nothing.

This post has been edited by Uppitycracker: Nov 21, 2004 - 1:29 AM

[1900WattCelica]

My buddy has a watercooled system...heres his suggestions:

Basically, the radiator is good, the danger dan fill port is the best you can get, if the pump is a platstic impeller pump primed with water, and the pump is enclosed in a metal housing with copper bushings then a 185gph will be awesome becuase it builds up about 45 psi, if it is a plastic cintrifugal pump then hes gonna need to 300 gph to get the psi where it needs to be

Hes gonna need 2 300gph, the reservior is gonna be arcrylic so its gonna crack eventually, they all do its a proven fact, and the ramsinks are a waste of money, if he decides to go with all thet ****, hes gonna have some major water restriction, and the water wetter you can get cheaper at the auto parts store

If he decides to go with 8 ramsinks, he gonna need at least a half inch connection from the pumps throughout the system, and pumps aint cheap. Ehiem makes the best ones. There for aquarium use, but they have a conversion for computers

And the danger dan setup is bullet proof, but you cant just get the port its gotta be the whole thing

[Uppitycracker]

My buddy has a watercooled system...heres his suggestions:

Basically, the radiator is good, the danger dan fill port is the best you can get,  if the pump is a platstic impeller pump primed with water, and the pump is enclosed in a metal housing with copper bushings then a 185gph will be awesome becuase it builds up about 45 psi, if it is a plastic cintrifugal pump then hes gonna need to 300 gph to get the psi where it needs to be

Hes gonna need 2 300gph, the reservior is gonna be arcrylic so its gonna crack eventually, they all do its a proven fact, and the ramsinks are a waste of money, if he  decides to go with all thet ****, hes gonna have some major water restriction, and the water wetter you can get cheaper at the auto parts store

If he decides to go with 8 ramsinks, he gonna need at least a half inch connection from the pumps throughout the system, and pumps aint cheap. Ehiem makes the best ones. There for aquarium use, but they have a conversion for computers

And the danger dan setup is bullet proof, but you cant just get the port its gotta be the whole thing
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Well the pros at overclockers.com say you need a pump that can push water to 4ft at least 20gph, so why would I need 2 300gph pumps?!?! You don't need massive amount of pressure, especially not 45psi, thats nuts!

I am going 1/2" tubing all around, it says in the initial post, and for the sake of my overclocked x800 I wouldn''t mind extra cool for the ram since i have to remove the stock one.

Can you please elaberate on how Im going to get so much flow restriction?? The danger den water blocks have Very little restriction, Im using 1/2" piping, the heater core is supposedly the least resistant thing you can use and Ill have a decent pump....

The pump I chose is supposedly ehiem quality but for 10USD more I might aswell just go with the ahiem 158gph pump or the 317gph pump for 20USD more.

And as for the danger den setup, are you talking about the gpu block or the cpu? What do you mean by the "port"?


Thanks for your help man!

Tim

Oh and just an after thought about the ramsinks, all they are is little aluminum heat sinks for the vga card, I think you might think Im getting 8 water blocks for my system memory, which isn't the case, hopefully that clarifies things.

This post has been edited by Uppitycracker: Nov 21, 2004 - 1:11 AM