[PICS] Clown's turn - Watercooling setup

Clown · 27 May 2006 at 23:45

Not my first watercooling setup, but I've always been too lazy to take pictures.

Swiftech Storm Block over an AMD A64 3700+ SD / Abit A8N32-SLI Deluxe.

Silverprop Fusion HL on a BFG 7900GTX. That's a dusty Creative Audigy 4 thing under it.

Eheim 1250. On a used bath sponge. Yep. That's the water I was using in the background. Used up about 0.5 litres after fixing the leaks and after bleeding for a few hours. Is that right? I'm sure I used a lot more in my other system. Maybe the reservoir was bigger.

Swiftech radiator and reservoir, 7/16" tubing.

Rubbish picture showing you the layout of some stuff. The Radiator is at the front of my Coolermaster Stacker, fans drawing air in. I was able to run my previous system passively like this (A scorching 2500+ Barton and 6800 Ultra), so the fans will be hooked up to the controller thing to turn them off.

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 11:15

Add some wires and it all messes up

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 12:32

That would involve me drilling and stuff

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 12:48

It has a sort of a rail thing, with slots in it where I guess the screws go through.

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 14:24

They're at the top under the I/O and switches, and a DVD drive.

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 17:57

So the watercooling works. No leaks.
The computer doesn't work. No power.

I press the switch and the fans spin up and stop within a second. They're attached to the PSU as opposed the the motherboard slots for case fans. The motherboard light is still on, showing there's power to the board, and the PSU fan is still spinning.

What's that about?

Clown · 28 May 2006 at 19:25

RAM has been reseated. GFX Card has been reseated. CMOS has been reset. It's half a new build; it's a new GFX card and motherboard. I'll need to unscrew my other Enermax from my other PC to test that which I'll do in a while, but this PSU worked before too.

Argh, annoying.

By the way, that heatsink is right next to a 120mm fan, do I really need that small fan on there?

Clown · 29 May 2006 at 13:51

Right. It was the PSU that was the problem. I didn't use the Enermax from the other PC because I forgot that it blew up as well. And the one that I tried to use yesterday was an Enermax too. I'm seeing a pattern forming here.

Anyway, I'm using the Antec thing that came with my original Sonata case. I think it's only like 350W. I dunno if that will be good enough for a 3700+ and 7900GTX both overclocked, but we will soon find out, eh?

Edit: Err. The 'broken' Enermax PSU isn't broken. I gave it one last chance because I didn't want to unscrew anything and it's all working now. Computers work in mysterious ways.

Clown · 29 May 2006 at 22:59

AMD64 3700+ San Diego
BFG 7900GTX 512MB
Crucial Ballistix 1GB PC4000 (Single channel, didn't bother installing my other stick)

All at stock gets me 9893 in 3DMark05.

Does this sound about right?

I'm having a bit of trouble trying to get my RAM to run at dual channel. I have two sticks of 1GB and if I run them in slots 1 + 3, the computer just refuses to boot up. They will work in slots 1 + 4 at single channel speed though.