Alright guys, It's time to get down to business. Time to start the mod...
The idea:
We all want the absolute BEST cooling for our computers. However, we know we all hate spending our hard earned money. Well here's where the mod comes into play. I've been doing alot of digging and I've looked at a few closed loop watercooling units. First is the Antec 620 unit, basically the exact same unit as the Thermaltake water 2.0 performer unit. They have the exact same pump design, basically a rebranded unit. The Corsair H50 unit is also my other unit I'm interested in. The idea is to mod one of these units, whatever performs better, and create a dual, 240 rad cooling unit instead of a single, thin 120 radiator that it comes with.
The Goods:
Corsair H50 pump:
Specs on the H50 pump unit:
Pump Electrical:
12 VDC
2.6 W
That makes this pump only .216amps @ 12v for the H50 pump.
Update 1:
Works with 240 rad!
Downside: only gets around ~0.15GPM. Basically the pump has very little to no pressure and the flow rate is unbelievably terrible....I mean its SOO bad. I can't believe its even considered a closed loop cooling unit. So basically its down to the Thermaltake unit, which is what I wanted to use all along. The Corsair H50 unit can pump through a 240 radiator but I don't think it would provide any cooling performance increase because of the reduced flow.
So, Corsair = 0/1
Additional Flow rate and pressure specs:
Testing:
Free Flow:
0.18GPM
10.8GPH
40 l/hr
With 240 Rad:
0.15GPM
9GPH
30 l/hr
Thermaltake water 2.0 performer
Rebranded Asetek 545LC
http://www.asetek.com/desktop/cpu-coolers/545lc.html
Specs:
Pump Electrical:
12 VDC
3.1 W
That would be .258amps @ 12v for the 620 pump.
Testing:
(The water that came out, didn't taste good, trust me)
(Checking my work)
Free Flow:
0.27GPM
20GPH
60 l/hr
With 240 Rad:
0.25GPM
20GPH
60 l/hr
XSPC RS240 Rad
XSPC RS240 Radiator:
Specs:
http://martinsliquidlab.i4memory.com/XSPC-RS240-Radiator-Review.html
The stock radiator on the unit has a total of 11 water tubes. These tubes are aluminum and the fins are very tightly packed 21-22FPI and they're also aluminum. The aluminum radiator is very very light and doesn't provide a very good thermal conductivity. Aluminum provides ~205w/mk while the XSPC radiator which has brass tubes and copper fins has a thermal conductivity of 109 and 401w/mk. Which is drastically higher.
The XSPC unit has 11 tubes as well. The major difference between the two is this radiator is much thicker, the tubes are larger, meaning less pressure drop, and the FPI is around 13FPI. This should translate into a near the same to higher amount of heat transfer between the two radiators. Most certainly the big difference will be that the water will spend more time in the radiator, spread out between 240mm and have more of a chance to get back to the ambient temp from the fans blowing across the radiator.
The Mod:
The idea is to cut the loop from the 120 radiator and attach the 240 radiator to the unit. Now the H50 pump I've read is SUPER weak! Like .5PSI max and .24GPM. But we'll see how it performs with my H50 when I get it. I'm hoping the Performer has a stronger pump in order to properly cool either the GPU or CPU whatever I attach the unit to. Now this link here has the information regarding pressure drop and flow through the RS240 radiator which I believe is quite promising how low the pressure drop is. If I could get just .5GPM through that radiator I could easily cool whatever I use. Here's what I plan to do once I get the H50 and 2.0 performer.
I'm first going to cut the tubes, then I'll run the loop in a bucket and at 12V to get specs on the flow rate for each pump. This will give me a good idea of the maximum volume the pump can pump. Then, after that I will attach a long length of tubing in order to determine head pressure at specific flow rates. This will give me a good indication of how much power the two pumps really have. I've already researched the Corsair H50 pump and like i said earlier, the pump is weak from what I've heard. I'm hopefully going to get a good rating on the performer 2.0.
Stay tuned to get a good update on my progress! I'm going to have lots of pics of my progress and lots of excel charts on the performance curves on these units. My intent for this thread is to define the limits of these closed loop pumps to maximize cooling potential and provide evidence for others who have considered or are considering attempting to add another larger radiator to these closed loop units.
The RESULTS!!!!!:
Folding GPU3
(810MHz-Core, 1.050V,1100MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 48C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 42C
(890MHz-Core, 1.100V, 1200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 52C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 46C
Battlefield 3 gameplay:
(920MHz-Core, 1.150V, 2200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 52C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 43C
Heaven3.0
(920MHz-Core, 1.150V, 2200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 53C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 44C
Edited by Cakewalk_S - 10/16/12 at 10:16am
The idea:
We all want the absolute BEST cooling for our computers. However, we know we all hate spending our hard earned money. Well here's where the mod comes into play. I've been doing alot of digging and I've looked at a few closed loop watercooling units. First is the Antec 620 unit, basically the exact same unit as the Thermaltake water 2.0 performer unit. They have the exact same pump design, basically a rebranded unit. The Corsair H50 unit is also my other unit I'm interested in. The idea is to mod one of these units, whatever performs better, and create a dual, 240 rad cooling unit instead of a single, thin 120 radiator that it comes with.
The Goods:
Corsair H50 pump:
Specs on the H50 pump unit:
Pump Electrical:
12 VDC
2.6 W
That makes this pump only .216amps @ 12v for the H50 pump.
Update 1:
Works with 240 rad!
Downside: only gets around ~0.15GPM. Basically the pump has very little to no pressure and the flow rate is unbelievably terrible....I mean its SOO bad. I can't believe its even considered a closed loop cooling unit. So basically its down to the Thermaltake unit, which is what I wanted to use all along. The Corsair H50 unit can pump through a 240 radiator but I don't think it would provide any cooling performance increase because of the reduced flow.
So, Corsair = 0/1
Additional Flow rate and pressure specs:
Testing:
Free Flow:
0.18GPM
10.8GPH
40 l/hr
With 240 Rad:
0.15GPM
9GPH
30 l/hr
Thermaltake water 2.0 performer
Rebranded Asetek 545LC
http://www.asetek.com/desktop/cpu-coolers/545lc.html
Specs:
Pump Electrical:
12 VDC
3.1 W
That would be .258amps @ 12v for the 620 pump.
Testing:
(The water that came out, didn't taste good, trust me)
(Checking my work)
Free Flow:
0.27GPM
20GPH
60 l/hr
With 240 Rad:
0.25GPM
20GPH
60 l/hr
XSPC RS240 Rad
XSPC RS240 Radiator:
Specs:
http://martinsliquidlab.i4memory.com/XSPC-RS240-Radiator-Review.html
The stock radiator on the unit has a total of 11 water tubes. These tubes are aluminum and the fins are very tightly packed 21-22FPI and they're also aluminum. The aluminum radiator is very very light and doesn't provide a very good thermal conductivity. Aluminum provides ~205w/mk while the XSPC radiator which has brass tubes and copper fins has a thermal conductivity of 109 and 401w/mk. Which is drastically higher.
The XSPC unit has 11 tubes as well. The major difference between the two is this radiator is much thicker, the tubes are larger, meaning less pressure drop, and the FPI is around 13FPI. This should translate into a near the same to higher amount of heat transfer between the two radiators. Most certainly the big difference will be that the water will spend more time in the radiator, spread out between 240mm and have more of a chance to get back to the ambient temp from the fans blowing across the radiator.
The Mod:
The idea is to cut the loop from the 120 radiator and attach the 240 radiator to the unit. Now the H50 pump I've read is SUPER weak! Like .5PSI max and .24GPM. But we'll see how it performs with my H50 when I get it. I'm hoping the Performer has a stronger pump in order to properly cool either the GPU or CPU whatever I attach the unit to. Now this link here has the information regarding pressure drop and flow through the RS240 radiator which I believe is quite promising how low the pressure drop is. If I could get just .5GPM through that radiator I could easily cool whatever I use. Here's what I plan to do once I get the H50 and 2.0 performer.
I'm first going to cut the tubes, then I'll run the loop in a bucket and at 12V to get specs on the flow rate for each pump. This will give me a good idea of the maximum volume the pump can pump. Then, after that I will attach a long length of tubing in order to determine head pressure at specific flow rates. This will give me a good indication of how much power the two pumps really have. I've already researched the Corsair H50 pump and like i said earlier, the pump is weak from what I've heard. I'm hopefully going to get a good rating on the performer 2.0.
Stay tuned to get a good update on my progress! I'm going to have lots of pics of my progress and lots of excel charts on the performance curves on these units. My intent for this thread is to define the limits of these closed loop pumps to maximize cooling potential and provide evidence for others who have considered or are considering attempting to add another larger radiator to these closed loop units.
The RESULTS!!!!!:
Folding GPU3
(810MHz-Core, 1.050V,1100MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 48C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 42C
(890MHz-Core, 1.100V, 1200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 52C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 46C
Battlefield 3 gameplay:
(920MHz-Core, 1.150V, 2200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 52C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 43C
Heaven3.0
(920MHz-Core, 1.150V, 2200MHz memory)
Before Mod:
Load: 53C
After Mod with 240 Rad installed:
Load: 44C
Edited by Cakewalk_S - 10/16/12 at 10:16am
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