First attempt at water cooling:)

Predator · 26 Nov 2007 at 23:49

Well what started out as a new MB and cpu, ended up selling the lot and starting again.

And then my wife said, if you want to water cool it, do it. Now I realise why I married her!

Here's a rough guide to what I bought:

Silverstone TJ07
MSI K9A Platinum
AMD 6000 @ 3.4Ghz
2 x Saphire 2900Pro 1024MB (flashed bios to 850/1000)
3GB Geil PC6400C4
Antec Quattro 850W PSU
Creative Fatal1y (from old PC)
2 x Samsung Spinpioint T 500GB (RAID 0)
Icydock Sata II (3 drive bays) Cradle
Dell E248WFP 24" TFT
Creative Gigaworks 5.1G500
Creative Fatal1y Gaming Headset

Cooling:
1 x Black ICE GT Stealth 240 XFlow Double Radiator
1 x Thermochill PA120.3
1 x Alphacool 3.5" Reservoir
2 x EK-FCR600 Crossfire Blocks
1 x Laing D5 Vario 12V Pump
1 x Swiftech Apogee GT Extreme
1 x Swiftech MCW Northbridge Block
1 x DangerDen Fillport
2 x Feser One UV Fluid

Performance Info: (temps are with overclocking)

3DMark06: 13103
CPUTemp Idle: 32 (max mid 40's)
Grfx idle: 37 (max 50ish)

Its not quite finished yet, but I wanted to get some pics up. Hope ya like it

Predator · 27 Nov 2007 at 09:14

many thanks. It all worked out ok in the end

Predator · 27 Nov 2007 at 14:34

would you believe they're blue cathodes

but yes its purple coolant, altough it doesn't react much to uv light

Predator · 27 Nov 2007 at 20:53

Hey many thanks all

Just managed to get it stable at 3.4Ghz (243x14), giving me 13376 in 3Dmark06 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3927200

The next plan is to flash the cards from 850/1000 to 900/1050, but I've gotta get the bottle to do that first

Predator · 27 Nov 2007 at 21:15

The CPU is currently at 32 and maxes out around 48ish (but it is warm in here)

The Grfx is idling at 37 and maxes out mid to late 40's.

Predator · 27 Nov 2007 at 21:23

Yeah I know I know. it all started when I had an Opteron 144 (1.8) running at 2.8.

A mate pointed out the AMD6000 and how cheap it was to do a simple upgrade. However, after swapping out the board, cpu and mem, I then decided to get a 2900Pro. Then another one, then a new PSU, then new HD's, ANOTHER new case, a new TFT, new sound system and then water cooling. You can see how this spiraled out of control.

So I blame my mate and he knows it. However I would like to thank my wife who encouraged me to buy more and build a PC that was gonna last 2 years that I would be happy with. God bless her!

Predator · 28 Nov 2007 at 16:41

had the space for it and I was going to run two loops initially, but the second pump took ages to turn up so I tried it out on one loop. All seems to be ok, and I'd rather have too much cooling than not enough

Predator · 28 Nov 2007 at 20:53

She gets designer handbags and Ugg Boots.

So custom PC's can work out even more expensive

Predator · 13 Jan 2008 at 20:45

RoEy said:
Predator, looks awesome mate. I'll have to have a chat with you soon about it as I'm going to do my first water cooling system soon, my wife said go for it too! lol,

Cheers,

RoEy

P.S. Love the case, where did you get it?

Much appreciated! Drop me an email to [email protected] and I'll tell you more.... always a bit difficault to mention competitors on here.

Anyways, I've done some updates since the last pics. Got a little bored and did the following:

- Installed Asus maximus Extreme MB
- Q6600 CPU
- 2GB OCZ DDR-12800 RAM
- Mounted top radiator externally to improve cooling
- replaced Laing Vario with laing DCC-1T
- Replaced all tubing with masterkleer
- Replaced Purple fluid with Blue UV (reacted better)
- Installed Corsair RAM Cooler
- Installed Alphacool 5.25" bay LCD screen

Hope you like it