Why do i bother with watercooling?

[matt719]

It's beyond me why I'm putting together a watercooling system... My air cooling on AMD Athlon 1900+:



Yes, these are idle temps... but what the hell

[Tomuchtime]

I like water cooled stuff because it's a project to tinker with reguardless of the
outcome...something to think about and play with. Also, I noticed my headaches
have more meaning.....
Bill

[GAZZA]

Well I've yet to water cool but that will be my next project along with getting my hands on a nice new Tbred chip .
Here is what you can get potentially from water cooling plus a few mods .
Edit: Here is the link to this guys setup , Here posted on another forum.

[Tomuchtime]

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[matt719]

Well, as much as I am for AMD, I'd just like to point out that Intel hit that speed over a year ago w/ a retail fan that has a heatsink the size of a half dollar. Anyways, i finished my watercooling system from scratch. Pics:







NOTE*** My dirty wet pants and socks in top left of first picture were from when i first turned the pump on. Appearently you do need the exact size hose Yeah, there was a leaking problem, but i solved by getting the right sized hose. ID (inner diameter) and OD (outer diameter) are truely too confusing... I had a different size barb / fitting on every device i had.

More pictures @ http://www.shortcircut.org/~mattb/pictures/project/

Most are relavent, first dozen are so were old pics left on the camera


Idles at about 80F w/o CPU idle, 74F w/ CPU idle. Full load is 86F.

System Specs:

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000
MSI K7 Master
256MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Voodoo 3 3000
30GB Western Digital HDD

NOTE*** Ordered a new AMD Athlon XP 1600+ that will arrive next week, unlocking kit (from highspeedpc.com), and a digital thermal probe. I'm also getting an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro soon for my main system, so my old Geforce 3 Ti500 will replace the Voodoo 3 3000. Hopefully i'll get a GPU waterblock, i know that the Ti500 runs hot and will probably limit my FSB speed somewhere down the road. Once i get this @&$#* above 2GHz i'll let you know I'm also thinking of some vcore mods (to get to 2GHz), if anyone has any suggestions on that, please let me know... that's something i don't know the specifics of.


Watercooling Specs:

Via Aqua 1300 370GPH pump - $20

Black Ice II Copper Radiator (2x120mm Fan)- $50

Swiftech MCW462-U Waterblock - $43
Vantec Nexus Fanbus 18w Per Channel - $29



I made the reservoir myself w/ some silicone glue, 2 barbs, and a waterproof box (the grey thing on top of computer)

Other materials were the tubing (3 different sizes on mine), adapting barbs, clamps, and distilled water.

The total project probably cost about $150, but if i did this a second time i could make it a lot cheaper.

[Bigal]

matt719: That took some serious effort. It looks like you'll have it completed soon, and then the fun begins. With all that cooling, you're gonna need to get that nice Geforce3 card in there. Then you can buy another water block for it, and push that puppy way past it's design specs.

I've thought about watercooling, mostly to reduce the noise factor. You still have some fans pushing air through the radiator, and then there is that videocard and maybe a chipset that needs cooling. What's next? Well, the hard drive comes to mind. Maybe putting the motherboard into a fridge is the answer ( ), even though there is that pesky rust issue.