Watercooling experiment (based on my system)

bifday2k said:
nice, as i'll be rebuilding my loop soonish this might come in handy, test if fans on both sides in push/pull is really worth it too if u can with ur set up, if not no worries...
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Well i will try, i am a bit skint at the monent thats why i have to wait till saturday to finish the experiment, i am ashamed to say that is when i get my dole money, so that is when i can buy my fans
 
Interesting results on the rad without fans, I may have to give that a go on my system to help with silence!
 
Woody...!!! said:
Well i will try, i am a bit skint at the monent thats why i have to wait till saturday to finish the experiment, i am ashamed to say that is when i get my dole money, so that is when i can buy my fans
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Noththing to be ashamed of woody im in the same boat atm, its nice that someone is doing this test, iv allways wondered whats the best way to orintate the fan/s on the rads, in real world tests and not in a lab that is.

Atm i only have 120 rad and 1 fan, yeh i know nothing special lol, but soon upgrading slowly to 1 360 and 1 240, have the latter allready so nearly there :D

You deffinatly get my thanks for doing this experiment keep up the good work.
 
Half an hour probably not enough time either. I stressed my system on a horizontal 240 feser with no fans. Temperature rose linearly with no signs of cuving over until I stopped it at 75 degrees component temp. It then took a very long time to come back down.

I ran furmark, and watched the line. It'll rise linearly, curve, and approach the horizontal asymptotically. Once I was certain it wasn't going to go up another degree I took that reading. That wasn't scientific either mind :)
 
JonJ678 said:
Half an hour probably not enough time either. I stressed my system on a horizontal 240 feser with no fans. Temperature rose linearly with no signs of cuving over until I stopped it at 75 degrees component temp. It then took a very long time to come back down.

I ran furmark, and watched the line. It'll rise linearly, curve, and approach the horizontal asymptotically. Once I was certain it wasn't going to go up another degree I took that reading. That wasn't scientific either mind :)
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from what i have seen the temps rise for the first 15 mins, and then even off but i keep an eye on things and still run the test for 30 mins, i could be wrong but i dont think the temps are going to alter much if anything after a 30 min period, but again i am not doing an experiment to stress the parts of my pc, just to check the temps of my rad and watercooling through everyday use, and lets face it most of us only use our pc's in everyday use, i even checked the temps playing games last night and they were cooler than when i was testing with prime, so i would say in fact in real life we only use about a quarter of our pc's full potential in everyday use
 
Right then, all changed around, so now i have the air being pulled in from the outside through the rad and into the case, these are the results with just 1 fan running @ 7v

idol 37,37,37,33
load 60,60,60,57

as you can see it is a 4c drop in temp blowing from out side the case
 
This time i have both fans on 7v sucking from the outside and through the rad into my case...

idol 34,34,35,31
load 55,55,55,51

Well it looks like the cpu and rad run cooler sucking from outside the case through the rad into the case, but then the inside of the case gets warmer, but that is easily rectified by either getting a better exhaust fan or in fact adding another exhaust fan so you have 2 fans sucking the heat out of your case in which case this will also help to cool the graphics card and mobo.

now tomorrow i will try sucking from outside the case but this time i will be adding shrouds to the fans (TFC Xtender - Radiator Shroud 120 - GREEN) i must admit these shrouds from feser are really well made and look the part.
 
Woody...!!! said:
there ain't any jobs mate
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Too true. Students (like me) can't claim jobseekers either, rough times.

If you run two exhaust at 7V, and two intake at 7V, it wont balance as the exhaust aren't pushing through a radiator. Not sure that affects anything though. Are you sticking with the swiftec after all?
 
JonJ678 said:
Too true. Students (like me) can't claim jobseekers either, rough times.

If you run two exhaust at 7V, and two intake at 7V, it wont balance as the exhaust aren't pushing through a radiator. Not sure that affects anything though. Are you sticking with the swiftec after all?
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i am going to put the shrouds on today and i will see what happens, i must say the swiftech radiator is doing its job, and doing it well, just to clarify i have the cpu and northbridge being cooled by my system (gigabyte ex58 extreme has a built in northbridge cooling block)

having said that a double thickness rad can only make things better, and i do like feser products, they just scream quality
 
Bradley8988 said:
Tbh you should be doin this with your CPU at 4Ghz or more so we can really see what it can do.
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Well i have never done much overclocking, and once i have found the best solution for me (which i know now will be sucking from outside the case) then i am going to go for a 3.8ghz overclock
 
hit a little bit of trouble today, the pins that came with the feser shrouds don't fit my rad, so i wil have to wait till tomorrow so i can get some pins...

If OcUK had the reser rads in stock i would have just gone down there and bought one, guess i am lucky that they are only a mile from me.
 
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