Custom WaterCooling.

ectraz

ectraz

ectraz

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Hey guys.

here is a little project i've been working on with my dad for 4 days.
Its a Raven RV01 Case, but we had problems getting the water cooling in so a lot of choping and changing.

the spec of the machine is:

Sabertooth 990FX
Bulldozer 8150FX
AMD 7970 MSI, (Custom Flash / Unlocked)
8Gb Vengance 1866Mhz Memory
2 x Agility 3 Solid State Raid 0


to the pictures..

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the bigest problem I had was radiators, I could not find anything that had 1/2Inch flow thro the rad, they were all restricted by 8mm Pipe thro the fins.

the solution here was to take 1 big rad cut it in half and mod the rad useing 8mm to 15mm converts and T's giveing me the water flow I wanted from my high powerered pump (potentialy 12mm) thro the whole system.

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The pump 2200LPH with a head hight of 4.5Meters. gives me plenty of slow, and with the moded radiators very little restriction, also very quiet for what it does. consumes around 35/40 Watts.


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The almos finished product. there are some changes to be made but this is pretty much how the system is going to look.
I need to get a GPU & Vram Water Block for the system, also hopeing to put another 7970 in there.

we've tryed to cover the rads up at the bottom just to make it look pretty but each rad is 35cm long and around 12cm wide, there are fans sandwitched betweans both rads, drawing cold air from the bottom of the system and out thro the top.
 
for anyone interested, getting 35oC Idle at 4700mhz clock.
arround 55oC on full load.

@ 4900mhz clock i get 39oC Idle and arround 65oC

wanting to push it higher thermal cut out seems to be 86oC on the processor, but the Vram gives in before the CPU Does.
 
I'm curious... it looks as though your rad effectively uses a single continuous path through the whole rad - hence why you wanted it to be as large tubing as possible?

most rads these days use end cans that split the flow to multiple paths as they flow through the rad so it's not so important to have large bore tubing... they also tend to use flat channels which are more efficient at spreading heat than round tubes...

having said that, it's always nice to see someone do something different - this coming from the guy with a copper core mondeo mk1 rad sat under his desk at home :D
 
it uses to paths. there are 2 radiators with 8mm to 15mm converts then T'd together on inlet and outlet.
 
also... it looks like copper tube with aluminium fins? I say that because it looks like the copper has gotten wet at some point as there is the blue green corrosion all around where the copper meets the ally
 
it is coper tube and aluminium fins.

Its a used Radiator and a lot of the copper pipe was used :)

Recycling and all that ;)

Radiators out of an old Air con unit.
 
hey, if it works!
ah, yeah it being out of an aircon unit explains the corrosion... as long as it doesn't get any worse then it's all good

I went for new rather than 2nd hand because the state of 2nd hand ones I could find was off putting for something that was going to sit in my office! but hidden in the depths of a case it's not so much of an issue (£15 for a 600x400 rad can't be complained at too much)
 
I have some copper pipe with aluminium fin radiators from thermaltake, but they aren't rated very highly, yours look a lot more meaty though. Be interesting to know how your temps compare to other 8150 users.

And kudos for the old school plumbing job, hope you got no leaks with all those joints. I might have been tempted to get out the dremel/brasso and polish it up and having part of it showing.
 
ur probably right on that, would look nice polished up :)

and yes will be interesting to have some comparisons on other system with the 8150
 
ectraz said:
lol :)
thats a good price. i was looking for custom Rads online but couldent find anything.
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the worlds biggest tat bazaar comes good... it was old stock from a car parts place... I was in the market for a car rad and when I spotted this one that was huge and copper cored I was over the moon - it must be worth more than £15 just in scrap!

I'm still running toyota red coolant (diluted) to be on the safe side
 
:)

i have black pipes comeing up from the rads at the moment but going to change that to clear.

other things i want to take care of first tho :) want to get another 7970 and waterblock the GPU's and Vram seriouse heat issue on the sabertooth Vram..... clocking is really restricted by it
 
for anyone interested Coretemp shows 27oC @ 4.7Ghz not sure how this fairs out against other 8150 users :)

The Asus suite for the motherboard shows 32/34oC But that a sensor behind cpu so im takeing that temperature with a pinch of salt, especialy as im removing heat from the CPU and not the back of it :)

These are stationary temps in windows not under any stress load.
and they are after machine has been runing for a few hours to warm up the water.
 
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