I want to start by thanking a few people. First is my long distance friend Arthur, that I have bounced ideas off of since I first got the idea to do a 3.0 version of Chilled Water Cooling, his patience with me I truly appreciate. Second is LiamG6, for his epoxy fill idea for the water blocks he suggested in the version 2.0 thread, I truly believe that is the main reason the CPU water blocks are working so well. Last but not least is Puck, who gave me the suggestion for the choice of 40mm peltiers I decided to use for this project. Thank You all for your advice!
Next I want to list what this cost covering time invested, and monetary invested.
Time wise weeks of testing to be sure the end build would even work, as far as hours, I have no clue.
The actual build of version 3.0 took 3 1/2 days or 40 hours, the majority of that time was modifying the cube case to make it house what I needed to go in it.
Money covering what was actually bought, but not covering what was already in use that was transferred out of version 2.0.
List:
Corsair Carbide Series Air 740 Cube Case $149.99
XSPC D5 Variable Speed Water Pump $79.95
ThermoMart Temperature Controller $39.50
Fittings $60.00
Tubing $20.00
Custom Thermo Electric 40mm peltiers 19911-5L31-15CQ x 3 $170.55
Alphacool NexXxos XP3 Light Acetal/Copper water block x 3 $142.00
Thermalright True Spirit 140 Power heat pipe air cooler x 3 $158.70
Accessories, Taxes, and Shipping not covered $60.00
Total $880.69
Parts already owned or transferred out of version 2.0 were:
Asus Maximus IX Hero Motherboard
Intel i7-7700K CPU
G-Skill DDR4 Memory Modules 16g 2 x 8g
Sound Blaster Z Sound Card
EK Supremacy EVO CPU water block
Enermax Galaxy EVO 1250w Power Supply
Swiftech MCP655 D5 Water Pump
Samsung SSD EVO 1T HDD
Western Digital 2T HDD
MSI GTX 1080
Watercool MO-RA3 180 x 4 radiator
Silverstone 180mm x 32mm cooling fans x 4
Bitspower a 400 and a 150 cylinder style reservoirs
The goal of version 3.0 was simply to make a better cooling solution than what I was already running with version 2.0, and that goal has been realized!
Version 3.0 uses 1/2 the electrical power that 2.0 did when all 3 TEC assemblies were powered up.
Version 2.0 with all 3 TECs powered pulled 600w at 60a, version 3.0 pulls 300w at 24a.
Version 2.0 took 25 minutes from cold boot to reach the set 8.9c cutout point of the temperature controller, 3.0 takes 6 minutes and 15 seconds.
Version 3.0 is so quiet operating I had to keep checking to see if it was running.
Version 3.0 exhausts a lot less heat into the room.
Version 3.0 can support the 7700K overclocked to 5.2ghz with hyper threading enabled running Intel Burn Test and still lower the coolant temperature while the test is running all the way down to the cut out point at 8.9c.
Version 3.0 uses approximately 1/6th of the coolant volume that version 2.0 did.
Electrical load during surfing the net 2.0 used 400w constantly, 3.0 uses 100w with the 2nd 100w TEC kicking in occasionally for about a minute or so.
Version 1.0 and 2.0 both used a 2nd power supply to power the chilled water cooling, version 3.0 uses only one power supply to power everything.
Plus the chilled water cooling of version 3.0 is all in one case not 2 separate cases.
3.0 is definitely a better chilled water cooling solution.
Next I want to list what this cost covering time invested, and monetary invested.
Time wise weeks of testing to be sure the end build would even work, as far as hours, I have no clue.
The actual build of version 3.0 took 3 1/2 days or 40 hours, the majority of that time was modifying the cube case to make it house what I needed to go in it.
Money covering what was actually bought, but not covering what was already in use that was transferred out of version 2.0.
List:
Corsair Carbide Series Air 740 Cube Case $149.99
XSPC D5 Variable Speed Water Pump $79.95
ThermoMart Temperature Controller $39.50
Fittings $60.00
Tubing $20.00
Custom Thermo Electric 40mm peltiers 19911-5L31-15CQ x 3 $170.55
Alphacool NexXxos XP3 Light Acetal/Copper water block x 3 $142.00
Thermalright True Spirit 140 Power heat pipe air cooler x 3 $158.70
Accessories, Taxes, and Shipping not covered $60.00
Total $880.69
Parts already owned or transferred out of version 2.0 were:
Asus Maximus IX Hero Motherboard
Intel i7-7700K CPU
G-Skill DDR4 Memory Modules 16g 2 x 8g
Sound Blaster Z Sound Card
EK Supremacy EVO CPU water block
Enermax Galaxy EVO 1250w Power Supply
Swiftech MCP655 D5 Water Pump
Samsung SSD EVO 1T HDD
Western Digital 2T HDD
MSI GTX 1080
Watercool MO-RA3 180 x 4 radiator
Silverstone 180mm x 32mm cooling fans x 4
Bitspower a 400 and a 150 cylinder style reservoirs
The goal of version 3.0 was simply to make a better cooling solution than what I was already running with version 2.0, and that goal has been realized!
Version 3.0 uses 1/2 the electrical power that 2.0 did when all 3 TEC assemblies were powered up.
Version 2.0 with all 3 TECs powered pulled 600w at 60a, version 3.0 pulls 300w at 24a.
Version 2.0 took 25 minutes from cold boot to reach the set 8.9c cutout point of the temperature controller, 3.0 takes 6 minutes and 15 seconds.
Version 3.0 is so quiet operating I had to keep checking to see if it was running.
Version 3.0 exhausts a lot less heat into the room.
Version 3.0 can support the 7700K overclocked to 5.2ghz with hyper threading enabled running Intel Burn Test and still lower the coolant temperature while the test is running all the way down to the cut out point at 8.9c.
Version 3.0 uses approximately 1/6th of the coolant volume that version 2.0 did.
Electrical load during surfing the net 2.0 used 400w constantly, 3.0 uses 100w with the 2nd 100w TEC kicking in occasionally for about a minute or so.
Version 1.0 and 2.0 both used a 2nd power supply to power the chilled water cooling, version 3.0 uses only one power supply to power everything.
Plus the chilled water cooling of version 3.0 is all in one case not 2 separate cases.
3.0 is definitely a better chilled water cooling solution.