SN25p watercooled?

welshtom · 5 May 2006 at 10:37

What are the chances of my being able to watercool my newly arriving shuttle.

How much room is there in the top of the case. im not sure what the layout is atm.

the rad/fan would stick out of the top if possible and i'd blend it in with filler and do a full respray.

Tom

welshtom · 5 May 2006 at 13:04

yea, sniper did one.

it will work.

Tom

welshtom · 6 May 2006 at 22:01

Yea, thats just selling out

I'll see what i can do when it comes

welshtom · 8 May 2006 at 08:30

ps2wizz said:
no but i would to see the result if someone had the brains to pull it off

Well watch this space then.

if it ever turns up :rolleyes:

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cant see it being too difficult. Just gonna have some extras on top which i hope to incorporate into the case with some nice filler and a total respray.

Tom

welshtom · 8 May 2006 at 16:35

EVH said:
It could be easier (and sexier) to run a few pipes in through the back of an unused PCI-slot opening

maybe yea

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external watercooling (zalman res etc) is just selling out and down right ugly IMO.

Tubes out of the back into a top mounted Rad could be nice though

Tom

welshtom · 8 May 2006 at 17:47

ah thats good news. As i said once i get the chassis it will be easier to plan it out.

Tom

welshtom · 8 May 2006 at 19:56

Good good

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Im sure the doubters will be proved wrong, esp if you;ve seen my projects before. Things get done if i say they will

Tom

welshtom · 17 May 2006 at 23:23

yea, 3 hdd's, thats pretty packed.

I only have 2 so the area above the psu is unlocked for a 120mm rad.

either an x850 or an x1900

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might start it all next week. should be good.

Tom

welshtom · 17 May 2006 at 23:25

Danamic said:
My CPU FSB is only at 225MHz (RAM doesnt run any higher at 2-2-2-5 than that) and underload this will produce temps of ~54C.
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hmm, not liking that stat.

I get 40 load at 3ghz on air

hoping for silence and better temps with the water setup

welshtom · 18 May 2006 at 16:42

Danamic said:
welshtom:

my load is after about 8 hours of encoding plus I have a 130nm fabbed CPU which requires more volts and so more heat. My CPU idles at about 34C and about 47C if Im playing CS.

Fair enough, still fairly high though.

If you are going to put a X1900 into the shuttle then you would probably have to place the reservoir where the CPU normally blows out, although I had difficulties trying to place it there.

why would anyone try to put a res in there too?

As Goksly said, if you have a decent graphics card in the water loop, Im not even sure if a 120mm rad would be able to get rid of the 250W+ created at full load (FX60 + X1900XTX) if you have an internal reservoir.

It may get warm yea, a lot of heat going into it. should be ok with a decent rad though. I suppose only time will tell. I've used and seen systems with a similar spec on a single rad.

If you want a quiet PC, I would just stick with a non watercooled shuttle or go for the Zalman Reserator (having that thing dwarf you shuttle would be strange).

I had a quiet pc (watercooled stacker, dual loop. everything watercooled pretty much (except ram + hdd). 3.2ghz opty + x1800, then x1900.) . Then i went back to phase cooling and now im onto shuttles!

Dont talk to me about reserators, prob be worse than the ICE system.

......You're pretty new around here so you prob dont know im more of a performance guy than an aesthetics guy (see overclocking section, namely super pi table, highest over clock and all the 3dmark tables).

Be nice to see your pics though!! What pump you using? I will have a csp-mag in mine.

Tom