ghell

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I hadn't seen anyone do water cooling like this before (minimising the number and length of tubes) so I thought I'd give it a go. It works very well, though some work was needed. For example, the 2 MOSFETs were too close with these koolance nozzles so I had to grind them down a bit (which shouldn't be a problem for my all copper loop).

In future, I may not cool the southbridge as it takes too much space.

Anyway, its very neat and gives great performance and airflow.

What do people think?

Pap3r

Looks good, but I hope the water is going tot he CPU first. You might want to throw some rads in there between some components, otherwise you are just trying to cool components with hot water.

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Shingetsu

I like it. Very clean looking.

As for the SB, yeah dont waste flow rate trying to cool that thing, just stick any old chipset sink (maybe a fan, too) on it and you should be ok.

ghell

Yes, the water goes in the CPU and out the southbridge. It doesn't make much difference once the system is in equilibrium anyway, Pap3r. There is one big PA120.3 at the bottom of the case with a Laing D5 Vario pump, which, when coupled with water's high SHC, means that the water going into the rad is almost the same temperature as the water coming out. The important thing that it does is just stop heat from building up but having a radiator between the components would make negligible difference.

I'm going to get an X58 board when bloomfield comes out anyway and give all this (including its brand new E8500 processor) to my brother. When that happens, I will probably use an HR-05 of some sort on the southbridge but from this experience, I will probably do something similar to the area around the CPU.

These universal chipset blocks from danger den aren't that great. They barely fit (I have to have them on the absolute minimum and skip a couple of nuts) but once they are on, the cooling is good. They also take too much space on the board.

Edit:
Originally I had planned on using a right angle between the CPU and the top MOSFET but this turned out to be a bad idea. Firstly, they are different heights making it difficult. I used a nylon right angle and a normal barb to get it done before and that worked but it was a lot of effort and it makes swapping out the CPU cooler very hard, as half of the rest of the coolers also need to be swapped out to do this, which involves taking the motherboard off the tray. It was very neat and looked pretty cool when I had done that though. Pretty much just one pipe into the system and one pipe out and that was it.

Pap3r

What radiator are you using?

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ghell

I have already said, not that it really matters. As long as it is big enough to take out all of the heat that has been added since the last time the water passed through it, it will not rise in temperature. If you read up on equilibrium you will find that the water at the start of the system is almost exactly the same temperature as the water at the end.

Anyway, that's not what this thread is about.

go.kyuu

I came in expecting more tinfoil But seriously, that is an awesome job. Good stuff.

ghell

Ooh shiney. I don't really know how that would work with water cooling but it sounds fun.

Thanks

eRazorzEDGE

good job, i've done the same thing with more, here's my wc thread

only i did the gpu and ram too...

Martinm210

That's what I thought too at one time, until you start measuring water in and out temperatures. With higher flow rates the water in vs water out is usually only something like .2C.

It's actually very difficult to get more than 1 degree total even after a big series of blocks. The specific heat (Ability to store heat) of water is really good, that's why it works so well and also why flow rates are less important with todays blocks.

Anyhow, I still always set mine up with the CPU first right after the radiator because technically it is the coldest water, but it's not what you would think...it's less than a degree all the way around the loop. So if it really works better to mix up the loop order, go for it, it's not significant. The only critical item is to have the reservoir/T right before the pump to have easy filling/priming.

Loop looks good

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