I am upgrading to a 1.3 gig AMD soon, so it will probably have to be changed for that.
But here is the new water cooling rig, that goes in line with my nice new radiator.
Ok. Here is the pic of the radiator that i got for a carton of beer.
Its 40 cm long, 9 cm thick and 10 cm high. It has 120 aluminium fins, uses 3/8 inch copper pipe
and has 16 passes. All up its about 6.5 metres of piping in this radiator. Its out of a
air conditioning demo unit. and it cost me a carton of Carlton Draught.
Ok, the problem was this.
ITS TOO LONG to fit in any case.
AND I WANTED it. so this is what i came up with... mount the radiator EXTERNALLY, but TOO the case.
Make the case bigger, or screw an additional box to the case to make it bigger. So that is what i did.
Hence... the ICEBOX!
This is what i started out with.
We have a 120 mm NIDEC TA450DC fan. Out of a server rack. Ball Bearing. QUIET.
A pile of nicely cut wood thanks to Mitre 10 palmerston (hardware store). I drew the
plans up for a wooden box to fit my computer case dimensions.
There is the radiator from heaven? hell?
A jigsaw thanks again to Mitre 10, and cheap as well... 50 bucks!
Some jigsaw blades, and some liquid nails. Total cost so far (excluding the jigsaw) is
WOOD - 20.95
GLUE - 5.95
Radiator - Carton of beer (28.95)
Ok... lets start.
Drill and cut a hole in one bit of wood with the Jigsaw. Causes great mess on kitchen floor.
The rest of the box glues together easily... Dont forget the gap in the other side for the air flow
(i forgot to take a pic of that. )
Fan and Guard installed. The second fan in the background is the other Nidec, but its bearings are a bit noiser
so i chose the other one. They are noth TA540DC's though.
More detail. Notice the card on top of the radiator? forces the air to go through the whole radiator.
All together, and the case is screwed down on top. ALL DONE!!!
You can see gap that i cut for the radiator now.
The whole thing is kept together with liquid nails. Nice and SOLID!!
All that is left is to now install the guts, and other watercooling gear.
In line with the new radiator, i decided to modify my pump.
I kept my old RIO 600, but decided to put a new res on it.
A clear plastic jiffy box from Dick Smith Electronics!!
The final pump. Clear plastic!! i LIKE clear stuff...
Ok here is the SEMI final watercooling setup.
Here it is cooling the CPU and GPU. Soon it will also be cooling the northbridge
and PSU. That will happen when i get my A7v133 mboard and my 1.3 gig t-bird.
Its a bit messy i know.
For this version i have ALSO got a new waterblock!!!
Made out of copper plate. Its small and light and does a better job then my
aluminum 4 way ported watersink.
Sorry i didnt have the camera on me when i biult it... so here are some complete pics.
Arctic silver applied.
The clamp is kinda visible.
Another shot of the clamp.
see the thermo engine in the background? hahaha
Thats it for now.. this article will be rounded off when i get the full system going.
I have NO doubts that the new radiator can handle the heat.
I tested it by turning the fan of and watching the water temp rise, then turning the
fan back on... it had the water back at ambient temperature in about 10 seconds...
Another thing that isnt in the pics is that in the wooden box containind the radiator, i lined
it with foam to reduce resonating noise.
For now... seeya!!!