slickwilly

My first try at making a water block for this mother board works quit well
but it is heavy (1.5lbs.) and less than a thing of beauty


I am doing a redesign and trying to reduce the weight and make it more appealing
this is what I have so far


I was going to solder the two halves togather and use a piece of 1/4 inch Acrylic for a hold down, but I have purchased some 3/8" Acrylic and will try making a top out of that first
this will reduce the wieght and possible make it look better

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slickwilly

More pic's. these show the redesign, the cover plate, what it looks like on the board and the all important contact patches

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cdolphin

very nice.
That is being done by hand? Doesn't look like CNC to me :P

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slickwilly

Drill press and a half inch end mill.

it is whats called a plung cut

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ira-k

Hey I missed this Slick, saw your link in BLockHeads. Looking good! That will make a nice NB block...

I've been sawing out some v-reg sinks. I think I'll make some v-reg blocks next, just do a drill through then solder round stock in the ends as plugs. Should cool fine for that. Using 1/4" brass NPT barbs might look clunky on it, have try it and see I guess. Something to play around with if nothing else.

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go4life

looks good slick and ira! Keep it up

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slickwilly

Thanks go4life

Ira, I am always amazed by your patience and skill to do those things by hand
with a saw and file.

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go4life

indeed! But sure is fun when you get it done right

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slickwilly

I was leak tested this block Sunday night by setting it up in a loop with out a rad.
I was concerned that this method would not develope suffiant presure to reveal any
leaks, much to my amazement after a couple hours of running the loop got hotter than my loop ever did when it was set up and cooling.

I guess this just proves that the people who say run your loop- pump, rad., cpu and not pump, CPU, rad. are right

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go4life

hmm..

I always ran it like this Reservoir/fillport-pump-rad-cpu-gpu-nb/sb.

Good luck getting it to work!

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