Watercooling Experiment

Hi everyone new here!!

the moment I knew you could overclock a PC system I've been wondering about installing a watercooling system myself.
I allready had put together my own PC.

But then I realised it was pretty expensive. 250euro for a decent sytem,GPU and CPU chipset excluded(for now).
This is the result after a few weeks of builing and testing



So working in a carplant I had myself made a CPU block with a CNC cuttingmachine.

Same for the GPU block with a maze heatsinkstructure and made a few addaptations to cool and fit a Nvidia 6800 vidcard.

Tricky bastard, to solder the memoryblockcooling to the GPU block





So the easy part was done,all in a days work hihi,but now a radiator.

I salvaged the old waterboiler from my dad and made a nice box for it to fit on my PC.

Next the pump, but I bought a wet pump so I had to make a container.



It resulted in a 210x16x270mm plexi-container and holds 8 litres of demi-water.(So NO fishes, they would die , you know, lol )

Then a flow control,thanks boss, that holds the feed to the PC for 3 seconds and if no flow is detected PC
shutsdown.
Same when flow decreases under 1 l/min (normal flow is 2.3 l/min)



Fitted with 2 two 120mm fans(controlled).



test results temp??? waterblock (cannot display have exterior probe)

Intel P4 3.2GHz 1.5v CPU temp 32c GPU temp 29c water temp 27c
@ 3.4GHz 1.6v CPU temp 34c GPU temp 33c water temp 29c




and I have made myself an automated frontdoor.
try to post the video-file later

Looking forward to post some more threads.

Grtz

None of yours pics work for me
And yes, I tried them in IE

ikellensbro said:

None of yours pics work for me
And yes, I tried them in IE

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same here

No pics

hey guys

sorry about the lnks tomorrow they will be fixed.
At the moment I'm at work.

Thanks for the notice

But if you like you can see parts of it at another thread I've posted.

Nvidia waterblock (selfmade)

Grtz

Are the pictures in this slideshow the ones you were trying to show? From the pictures in that slideshow, you setup looks awesome

hello

ha someone who has dug a little deeper.
Thanks for the interest, and yes that my rig.

As I've posted the links will be replaced tomorrow

Thanks for the reply

Grtz

Hey guys

it's fixed, but can anybody tell me a video-uploadsite.

I'll look myself ,but in the meantime,

thanks

Grtz

Very nice work! I especially like that thing that looks like a fish tank on top of the box. Is that the reservoir? Is this what they call a G job in the colonies

That is insane and do you have enough water? GOOD WORK

thanks

but according to your specs you've oc'ed a p4 3.2GHz at 3.8GHz
if so, what's its ratio and the voltage and temps, I wonder?


good night.



Grtz

never mind, I've checked your homesite.

I'm wondering if I should have a go at it myself???


Grtz

That is some fabulous work. I am actually going to work on an external system myself this summer. Are you using any sort of disconnects on your hosing to stop leakage?

BTW, how much does that type of acrylic cost? What about the metal?

I am trying to weigh my options before I begin to build.

Finally, what are you using to cool your loop? A radiator, a heatercore? If so, which one(s)?

I would really like to do something like that, but I'm not so sure I would want that much water in the front (even though it looks cool) for mobility purposes.

DarkenReaper57 said:

That is some fabulous work. I am actually going to work on an external system myself this summer. Are you using any sort of disconnects on your hosing to stop leakage?

BTW, how much does that type of acrylic cost? What about the metal?

I am trying to weigh my options before I begin to build.

Finally, what are you using to cool your loop? A radiator, a heatercore? If so, which one(s)?

I would really like to do something like that, but I'm not so sure I would want that much water in the front (even though it looks cool) for mobility purposes.

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Thanks,
I'm using common 3/8" hand-closed valves, just to be able to separate the PC from the WC-setup.They're at the same hight, so when you disconnect, the water will not leak out.This is due to "the principal of communicating vessels".And a flow-control (industrial, he, if it's free ) to shutoff the entire system.

The plexiglass is fairly cheap 10 to 15 $ a square metre.(3/4mm thick)
The rest is L-chaped aluminium, also not expensive.(check your local hard-warestore).
And aquarium silicone-glue.

I'm using an old heatercore, from a household gas waterheater(20kW).That's the main reason why the reservoir is so big.It's so big to fit the radiator-box size.You could make one to fit in 1 or 2 5.25" bay(s).
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And since I have a heavy pump, I wanted to try a second radiator.Black ice extreme 120mm.
I'm using distilled water and blue anti-algy reactive.

There should be enough threads on selfmade WC-setups that fit your rig,like for LAN-party's and so.

Good luck

Grtz

Lite_User said:

never mind, I've checked your homesite.

I'm wondering if I should have a go at it myself???


Grtz

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DO IT!!! I am was running F@H on those temps so, and i can go to 4Ghz but it is just not stable

Impressive

That's a gigantic cpu waterblock though isn't it?
and I wonder how good an idea those 90º turns are for water flow

illgiveumorality said:

Impressive

That's a gigantic cpu waterblock though isn't it?
and I wonder how good an idea those 90º turns are for water flow

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no problem here there is one 12cm inlet and two 8cm dual outlet.
Still have a flow of 2 litres/min,that ain't bad believing the graphs.
But due to the big reservoir, I maintain a delta T of 20 C at load.

Ho yeah the block looks a bit like this one,or, this one ,only 2 oulets.


Grtz