Jkenzie

Yes, it's mounted in an old coolermaster cooldrive 3.
You can see more pics of it here:
http://jkenzie.smugmug.com/gallery/1851490#92863330

Good luck with your test, lets us know how it goes.

flyjedi

had some rethinks and i think i'm going to add to the design of the card. i want to combine an lcd output onto it to show temps. also gonna need something to run those 1-wire probes now

ChielScape

took another look at your gallery. finished build looks awesome, but... wheres your condensation-proofing?

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flyjedi

The idea is we keep it above the condensation point. The card is supposed to compare ambient with water temps and not let the water drop below, or to far below anyway. That'll stop condensation forming.

ATM just got the chiller running on low and it's holding 18C with CPU at 28C. CPU seems to stay ~water+10C

ChielScape

nice. what block are you using?

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flyjedi

It's a Danger Den RBX 939 block with the edge ground off to dodge the volt reg area on the mobo. The hold down plate is form an XSPC round block thing.

An interesting note: The radiator in the setup is serving exactly the purpose we envisioned; chilling the case nicely. Take the side panel off and it's nice and chilly inside! Water temp is ~16C for this.

Work on the controller card will continue at the weekend I expect.

ChielScape

ah, so now using it as an airco? imagining great GPU temps...

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ira-k

Why don't you want to go sub-ambient? Because its more economical? I can understand that......This TEC eats electricty....

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phatso

The system is running sub ambient but not too massivly, I am running it with the water temp at about 16-18c and this is holding the cpu at 25-29c that is cool enough and isnt causing any problems with condensation. Also it means that the chiller is fairly quiet.

We did some test runs as you can see if the photo's before i put any hardware in the case and we took the water temp down below 0c but even in the middle of the night with the doors and windows open to lower the air temp and no heat in the case it was creating water all over the place.

If i want to go for a massive OC session at some point i can allways turn the chiller up more.

The airconditioned case is quite cool (all pun intended) you can take the side pannel of and the air is cold, I havent looked to see if its making much difference to the GPU temps.

ira-k

You can condensation proof it fairly easily..The only extra step needed from normal condensation proofing is doing the tubing and the blocks...I bet it is a cool case......Have fun with it...

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