Project_ external rad.

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 09:41

After reading fornowagains acrylic radbox thread ( here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17904917 ) I was tempted to try somthing similiar.

Components:-
1- thermochill pa 120.3.
1- Swiftech MCR320-QP Triple 120mm Radiator.
2- D5 vario pumps.
1- chilly chips passive rad/res.
1- Enermax EG285-SX-VB(G) 285W Micro ATX Power Supply
1- power supply tester.
3- yate loon fans
2-old thermaltake fans.

Pics-

As u can see its not finished quite yet, need another fan and some more screws for the grills.
Its was also reasonably cheap as i had most of the kit already just had to buy the psu from ocuk and one of the d5s the passive res and the pa120.3 grill which all came from the members market ( cheers gt_junkie).

Did a small fft prime run overnight-

Hope u all like, comments and suggestions welcome.

mathwat · 17 Aug 2008 at 09:54

i think you need to have a clean up with all that dust around.. :eek:

will bring your temps down too....

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 10:07

Aye is a bit dusty, cleaned the dust out of the rads with compressed air before putting it all together, it just everything else that needs a clean!

mda96bjh · 17 Aug 2008 at 10:18

You don't look to be geting the best out of that set up....why not put a TEC in the loop??

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 15:53

mda96bjh said:
You don't look to be geting the best out of that set up....why not put a TEC in the loop??

Had not even considered a tec might have a look into it.
The objective of this project was silence and enough cooling power to support future upgrades.

Acid_death69 · 17 Aug 2008 at 15:57

lol i think silence has gone out the window with all those fans mate.

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:00

true but it works quite well passivly and all the fans are 7v modded

Bradley8988 · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:03

what is it with everest and real temp? they give that kinda diff on my 8500. which do you trust? is the 3 rads really worth it? this is last night with a single internal PA120.3 guess there a little higher. u managed to push yours any more?

Acid_death69 · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:04

sulli said:
true but it works quite well passivly and all the fans are 7v modded

cool

do you have any control over them speed wise? i think it would be good if you could somehow manage to hook it up to one of your mobo and control it with speedfan.
What's the coldest you've managed to get temps?

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:08

I trust realtemp but i always check eversest or coretemp as well. Not sure if all the rads are worth it but my loop includes my cpu, northbridge overvolted to 1.67(bios) and my 8800gtx vmodded to 1.45. and it has dropped temps.

sulli · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:13

Acid_death69 said:
cool do you have any control over them speed wise? i think it would be good if you could somehow manage to hook it up to one of your mobo and control it with speedfan.
What's the coldest you've managed to get temps?

Nope no direct control yet but i was thinking of adding a fan controller to the box. At the moment the only was to turn the fans off is to dissconect them from the psu

I havent tried for lowest temp but will have ago with all the fans at 12v when i have a bit more time.

Acid_death69 · 17 Aug 2008 at 16:19

lol you'll need some ear plugs when your putting that much power through them.