Dr4gon's Water Work Log: A Test of Patience - First Watercooling (*56K Warning*) - Page 4 - Overclock.net

Zeraphil · 08-28-07

I hope I can do my own build at least slightly comparable, because your rig is hard to beat! Top notch, my friend, excellent job!

On the benchies, I'm good with the temp benchmarks, they'll be a good relative standard for me to reach, though I hope I'll get lower temps due to the e6600 being less of a fiery beast. All in all, good show mate, I'm gonna bookmark this thread and treaure it.

**dr4gon** · 08-28-07

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Originally Posted by Zeraphil

I hope I can do my own build at least slightly comparable, because your rig is hard to beat! Top notch, my friend, excellent job!

On the benchies, I'm good with the temp benchmarks, they'll be a good relative standard for me to reach, though I hope I'll get lower temps due to the e6600 being less of a fiery beast. All in all, good show mate, I'm gonna bookmark this thread and treaure it.

yay a response

thought I was going to get burried under all the threads...

Now that I think about it though, I probably should've put it in the work log section? o.O (I know who would've thought?)

Yeah You'll probably get better temps because it's an e6600 and you got a larger radiator which I desperately need!

Keep at it!

Zeraphil · 08-28-07

Hey, now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind seeing some FEAR and Bioshock benchies, provided you have 'em.

**dr4gon** · 08-28-07

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Originally Posted by Zeraphil

Hey, now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind seeing some FEAR and Bioshock benchies, provided you have 'em.

funny you should ask I just installed bioshock's demo and am starting it up right now as we speak!

I'll install fear as well later.

**ira-k** · 08-28-07

Yeah I wish you had gotten a bigger rad to start with to...I don't know what fans you have on it but some 120x38mm medium cfm Pana or Sunon fans might help like 108 Sunon and the 115 cfm Panaflo ....

**dr4gon** · 08-28-07

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Originally Posted by ira-k

Yeah I wish you had gotten a bigger rad to start with to...I don't know what fans you have on it but some 120x38mm medium cfm Pana or Sunon fans might help like 108 Sunon and the 115 cfm Panaflo ....

Me too

, ...oh well still performs better than I expected

. I got 2 SFF21F (on pull) and 1 SFF21E (on push). It is always blowing room/warm on idle. And Warmer (not quite hot, kinda) on load.

I was thinking of adding a MCR320 on the top of the case and run it

Reservoir > Pump > Rad (MCR220 > Fuzion CPU > MCW60 GPU > Rad (MCR320) >>> Reservoir

I got the idea of adding the tripple rad from Martin. Originally I was thinking of replacing the dual rad with the tripple, but adding the tripple plus the double would be even better. I guess I could also try to switch the rad positions and possibly run them back to back.

**ira-k** · 08-28-07

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Originally Posted by dr4gon

Me too

, ...oh well still performs better than I expected

. I got 2 SFF21F (on pull) and 1 SFF21E (on push). It is always blowing room/warm on idle. And Warmer (not quite hot, kinda) on load.

I was thinking of adding a MCR320 on the top of the case and run it

Reservoir > Pump > Rad (MCR220 > Fuzion CPU > MCW60 GPU > Rad (MCR320) >>> Reservoir

I got the idea of adding the tripple rad from Martin. Originally I was thinking of replacing the dual rad with the tripple, but adding the tripple plus the double would be even better. I guess I could also try to switch the rad positions and possibly run them back to back.

Yeah you can try 2 rads and see what it does, it will be more restrictive..A lot of guys are just trying to go by flow...The quality of the flow is important to..The more you can flow the shorter the tubing the fewer components the more turbulent the flow will be and give better temp's...Slower flow tends to be laminar and the faster its more turbulent....If you still aren't getting decent temp's I would go for a high performance rad like the GTX or the Thermochill...

I've used a 240 Swifty rad and wasn't impressed with it at all, its about like a 240 BIP...They are OK but nothing great.......

sepheroth003 · 08-28-07

rep for a very well organized log

really helps us who have never done this.

**dr4gon** · 08-28-07

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Originally Posted by ira-k

Yeah you can try 2 rads and see what it does, it will be more restrictive..A lot of guys are just trying to go by flow...The quality of the flow is important to..The more you can flow the shorter the tubing the fewer components the more turbulent the flow will be and give better temp's...Slower flow tends to be laminar and the faster its more turbulent....If you still aren't getting decent temp's I would go for a high performance rad like the GTX or the Thermochill...

I've used a 240 Swifty rad and wasn't impressed with it at all, its about like a 240 BIP...They are OK but nothing great.......

I love your OK statements!

and your ....., it's so ira-k!

Well I have a few months to decide since I don't have time to overhaul it right now. I might just get a tripple rad as a replacement because you bring up a good point. I would spring for a high performance rad like the GTX or PA Thermochill, but I just can't justify spending what $150? on a rad which is like tripple the cost of a MCR320 or GTS. I will be using 63.7 CFM fans (for lower noise, although I swear I can hear the low rumble of my pump) so a GTX is out of the question.

...And from what I've read the GTS doesn't perform as well as the MCR320 and it's good if you need to save space.

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Originally Posted by sepheroth003

rep for a very well organized log

really helps us who have never done this.

I appreciate it, thank you!

World in Conflict Demo: 1600 x 1200 (0 x AA, 2x AF I think, Rest on Medium DX9 Settings @ 1600x1200)

It plays very well in game, very smooth, no lag at all. The benchmark is far more animated!

**dr4gon** · 08-28-07

Here are some World in Conflict benchmarks using the ingame bench button

... And I have yet to play bioshock yet.

... and my fear MP (free standalone) doesn't seem to have the "test settings" button under the performance tab in the options. Don't know why but I'm guessing it's because I don't have the full version. Zera, if you know, let me know. Thanks!

2 more in previous post.

I played it for a couple of hours. Was a pretty fun game. I think I like company of heroes a lot better. But this does look a lot nicer!