- Joined
- 27 Apr 2004
- Posts
- 107,330
- Location
- In bed with your sister
I asked for help in the general hardware section about building a benching rig but didn't find much help regarding watercooling.
My plan so far is to have it set up on a table/desk without a case as I intend benching various CPUs and different RAM. Mounting it this way will allow easy access and will also help with cooling as I can point my desk fan directly at it.
At present I am looking at: DFI X-fire mobo, with X1900 X-fire + X1900 XTX which will be watercooled along with the northbridge and Vapochill Lightspeed for the CPUs.
I have 2Gb Mushkin redline and 1Gb Corsair XMS3500LL for testing with either high bandwidth or tight timings.
What I would like you guys to help with is the watercooling for the gfx cards and the northbridge.
I presume I would be better with blocks which cover the gfx RAM as well as the GPU?
Could someone please suggest good quality components (from OcUK - I would rather deal with them) to do the job? Don't worry too much about the cost as this is going to be a bloody expensive system anyway.
It was suggested in GH that I should watercool the RAM, HDD (37Gb Raptor) and Mosfet as well but I wondered if this would be really necessary due to the fact that this will all be in the open with a 14" deskfan about 6 inches from it?
Also, can anyone suggest suitable benching software to cover as many aspects as possible.
I know some stuff but if someone could supply a list of useful software (preferably free but not necessary), I would be very grateful.
Thank you for your time.
Stan
My plan so far is to have it set up on a table/desk without a case as I intend benching various CPUs and different RAM. Mounting it this way will allow easy access and will also help with cooling as I can point my desk fan directly at it.
At present I am looking at: DFI X-fire mobo, with X1900 X-fire + X1900 XTX which will be watercooled along with the northbridge and Vapochill Lightspeed for the CPUs.
I have 2Gb Mushkin redline and 1Gb Corsair XMS3500LL for testing with either high bandwidth or tight timings.
What I would like you guys to help with is the watercooling for the gfx cards and the northbridge.
I presume I would be better with blocks which cover the gfx RAM as well as the GPU?
Could someone please suggest good quality components (from OcUK - I would rather deal with them) to do the job? Don't worry too much about the cost as this is going to be a bloody expensive system anyway.
It was suggested in GH that I should watercool the RAM, HDD (37Gb Raptor) and Mosfet as well but I wondered if this would be really necessary due to the fact that this will all be in the open with a 14" deskfan about 6 inches from it?
Also, can anyone suggest suitable benching software to cover as many aspects as possible.
I know some stuff but if someone could supply a list of useful software (preferably free but not necessary), I would be very grateful.
Thank you for your time.
Stan