Author Topic: Water Cooling Advice? (Read 713 times)

Staga · « **Reply #15 on:** May 16, 2003, 11:00:58 AM »

Whole system built in sidepanel of the computer case: Easy to maintain (check leaks in the bathroom, fill with distilled water/glykol, about 80/20 if needed) and when messing with computer itself it's easy to move away.

Temperatures with my old OC'd AMD TB 1,4GHz@1,5GHz

Now with AMD XP2400 2,0GHz OC'd to 2,3GHz temps are 50-52C

Did I say the most noisiest part is powersupply (Enermax 350w)? That 120mm fan behind the radiator is running less than 1100rpm

SunKing · « **Reply #16 on:** May 17, 2003, 04:06:09 AM »

Installed fan... What a difference.. CPU temp is the same and I can hardly hear the fan. I suggest this cooler.

I've heard too many horror stories on water cooling mishaps. Good luck.

Wanker · « **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2003, 12:09:37 PM »

Sunking, you just replaced the fan on top of the Thermaltake, or is that a whole new cooler/fan combo?

Sancho · « **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2003, 03:35:32 PM »

this is kinda ghetto, but I just zip tied an 80mm fan to my existing heatsink after removing the loud, stock 60mm fan. The new fan was way too big to screw on. They make filters that modify 60mm fan mounts to 80mm fan mounts, but I was too cheap for that. I put a rheostat between that fan and the power connector and was able to dial down the fan speed until it was barely audible. Monitoring the temp in VIA HM shows it is only about 10 degrees warmer than before and still well within specs. The 1.4GHz Athlon is very stable over a year after performing this 'mod'.

100% improvement over the loud gale force winds that prevailed before I did that. Replacing the hard drive with newer, quieter model was the next thing that made a huge difference.

AKcurly · « **Reply #19 on:** May 19, 2003, 05:28:00 PM »

Interesting thread. At the risk of starting a "holy war," I have to ask, why not pull the AMD chip & MB out and replace it w/Intel? You have no heat problems, no fan noise and the cost of an intel 2.4P4 and suitable motherboard costs far less than many of the cooling solutions you guys are suggesting.

For example, at http://www.monarchcomputer.com/
an Abit MB and Intel P4 2.4 costs around $320.

curly

Defiance · « **Reply #20 on:** May 19, 2003, 07:13:19 PM »

Hiya's,
Maybe over the pond @ those prices curly

but ole blightey aint as cheap

Left watercooling anyways, If anyone wants a setup (minus block) can have it (pump/rad (nice n shiney brass external, looks like nice gold when polished n sealed)) ohh and a yes i dare say it tupperware res

Wanker · « **Reply #21 on:** May 19, 2003, 09:41:02 PM »

Sancho, any idea what "within specs" range is? When I go into the BIOS and read the CPU temp there, it hovers around 36 celsius. Since the Thermaltake has a dial that I can use to manually reduce the rpm's that the fan rotates at, maybe I should just turn it down to an acceptable level and see what the temp rises to.

Sancho · « **Reply #22 on:** May 20, 2003, 07:35:51 AM »

Mine's kinda on the warm end: 52 deg C idle, 58 after 15 minutes under 100% CPU load. Looks like you've got a lot of wiggle room.

Wanker · « **Reply #23 on:** May 20, 2003, 08:25:13 AM »

Well, I dialed the fan down to about 2300 rpm's and now it's much quieter, even more quiet than the Swiftech combo I had on it previously. Temp at idle is now at 44 celsius, so I think I'm good to go.

Still waiting to hear from Sunking on whether it was the full heatsink/fan he just replaced, or merely the fan.