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wowza · 03-22-06

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Originally Posted by tuchan

Did you get a hold of any insulation yet?
This is looking good mate, cheers for the pics

The pipe wrap will do the trick.. We will see, it's more or less a trial and error, since this is my first build. I will have a ton of pics tommrow

thehybridpyro · 03-22-06

im looking forward to the pics

on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this?
im proficent with most power tools, and have a knack for putting thihgs together

wowza · 03-22-06

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Originally Posted by thehybridpyro

im looking forward to the pics

on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard is this?
im proficent with most power tools, and have a knack for putting thihgs together

Humm, it's actually fairly easy. I just takes a little of creation and some patience at times. Depending on your scale it really isn't much harder than building a computer. I mean, It's basically like having a perminatly frozen item in your water bay chilling the water. Sometimes it's tedious work, othertimes it's more or less fun. The hardest part about this is insulation. It takes a ton of insulation around the CPU block, and you also have to insulate the tubing, motherboard, pump, basically everywhere the water flows. If your done with the insulation, everything else is a breeze.

timsvpr · 03-23-06

so how is this going to hook up to your computer. I think thats the bottom line question.

tuchan · 03-23-06

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Originally Posted by timsvpr

so how is this going to hook up to your computer. I think thats the bottom line question.

The cool liquid just pumps through the water block.

hvacgaspiping · 03-23-06

Hey Wowza,

I noticed the green windshield wash in the pic. Here in Oklahoma the Wal-Mart in my hometown has three colors of windshield wash; red, blue and green. Maybe they have it where you live?

thehybridpyro · 03-23-06

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Originally Posted by wowza

The pipe wrap will do the trick.. We will see, it's more or less a trial and error, since this is my first build. I will have a ton of pics tommrow

hey man

i dont see ne pic

or did you post them on an earlier page?

tuchan · 03-26-06

How is this going mate, everything still gong to plan? Any more updates on ya progress?

wowza · 03-27-06

@ Hybrid - check the 1st page and on for continueous updates, most of the info is in the 1st post.

@ HVAC - I bought that Green stuff at a "speciality" auto parts store. I am very suprised to find it where I live for a few reasons, one being the main ingrediant is Alcohol that is super flammable and is potentially harmful to the enviorment and 2 being, it won't get below 0 where I live, heck, won't get anywhere near that, and yet they sell -30F De-icer. I know for shure most of the other colors are banned from sale in Cal due to the alcohol levels.

@ Tuchan - So far nothing has gone wrong, I am passed the hard part of fitting the chiller in the 12 can cooler, all the insulation work is more or less busy work.

Update
Ok, tonight I started with insulating my motherboard. First, I removed my Northbridge fan so I could better insualte the area around that. I used my mom's clear nail polish to coat around the CPU socket and near the northbridge. After that, I used white cork tape on the motherboard's surface to stick and protect the circuits ect. from condensation. It is very sticky, feels a lot like gum, I wish however I would have got the black cork tape and not the white, since my board is black. One last note on the cork tape, DONT compleatly cover the chips (see last pic), expecially the MOSFET chips and the clock frequency chips, otherwise we would have some major problems with overheating and other bad things.

Next up, I need to spread some silicone around the capacitatiors to provent from condenstation build-up and corrosion (needs to be air tight!) and I also need to gap off the memory slots so no air / water will seep under their causing any more problems. Later, I will build up the dielectric grease around the CPU socket so I can have an air tight seal around the processor. Tommrow, I am going to get a custom heater like this for a vapo LS kit to help me around the backside of the motherboard so I have to do less insulation work, also, this is another form of security against the condensation.

Roxter · 03-27-06

great stuff, keep making posts or i might go into withdrawal. lol

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