My Watercooling Log

[kommando]

Hey guys ill be setting up an external watercooling rig till my water chiller is made. It will consists of:
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2x Heatercores
Original Whtie Water
Silverprop Fusion HL
Silverprop Nexus SX
Hardware Tubing
Heto 2800 modded inline
Esky Res
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The Heatercores are brass and looks sweeet :)

The esky res is fairly small and you will see so in the pics i will post.

Anyway the gear

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The Esky Res, nice and small.

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The radiator coolant i will be using, cost me 20 bucks damn expensive!

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Big Arse Radiator, in need of a clean.

It holds 2x 120mm fans easy flush but cost 90 bucks barbed and tested :(

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The other brass heatercore which cost me 25 bucks from memory. I barbed it and cleaned it with my dremel. This baby holds 4x 80mm fans or 2x 120mm fans with an overlap. Im going to cool it with 80mm fans as i don't have more than 2 120mm fans :(

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My old setup, just before liquid was flushed down the drain. Thats a custom made waterblock with a basic maze deisgn which cost me 30 bucks. The pump was also 30 bucks with the clearfex tubing about 14 bucks.

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Test fitting the setup before i bring it up stairs for further testing.

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Now we bring the setup in my room for the test fit. First up heatercores.

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Now for the rest of the setup. Res in the shot. Notice how much room this thing takes up on miniture desk?

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Another shot of the setup.

Don't worry about that nf7 its dead and its being used just to see how much space i got to work with.

Anyway thats the update for now, hopefully tommorow i can get all the other blocks ready and set them up before test leaking the system then putting it all together :D

[kommando]

Just quickly wired up a power switch, tommorow will do some fan switches.

[Jabo]

After your first piccies I was going to ask who kicked you out? he he he.

Are you TECing this system?

[blinky]

dude run those radiators in parallel, because water will flow to the path of least resistence, and so one rad will get most of the water flow., then the other one is being wasted

[kommando]

Originally posted by blinky
dude run those radiators in parallel, because water will flow to the path of least resistence, and so one rad will get most of the water flow., then the other one is being wasted

Doh! :banana:

How can i fix that up?

@Jabo No i will not be tec'ing the system because i don't have the necessary requirements to power 'em.

[afireinside]

What are you powering the fans with? Old PSU?


Take the Y splits out to fix it. Run from one rad to the next.

[pippin88]

Running from one rad to the next would be running in series, and stupid.

By running in parallel, as Kommando is, you don't have as much resistance and you still get better cooling.

[John Cena]

Running Parallel with a Y splitter is MUCH better than running in a Series one rad after the other.

In a circuit, if you have a parrallel circuit between 2 bulbs, the bulbs will equally be bright.
In a circuit, if you have a series circuit, one bulb will be brighter than the other.

[kommando]

Originally posted by afireinside
What are you powering the fans with? Old PSU?


Take the Y splits out to fix it. Run from one rad to the next.

Ill have an antec 480w true power handy for that :D

Okay might cut some tubing up and get the setup looking right before filling it up.... hopefully.

Lets hope sickenss dosn't come in :smileysex

[kommando]

Update Time!!

I finsihed all the tubing but didn't clamp it all on.

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More pics

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Originally posted by kommando
More pics

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The heatercores, tubing not clamped on yet.

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Tubing clamped on, looking more like a setup now.

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Pic of the White Water CPU Block and the elbow bends.

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Lots of tubing!

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Over All Setup again, res needs to be sealed after i fill it up.

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Res Again, i've sticky taped the tubing down onto the res to keep it steady.

[DoGMaN]

Looks good! Almost the same setup I am using, except your second rad is bigger than mine, and I am using an RBX. Well and a D-Tek NB block. Keep us informed. :D

[kommando]

Arrrrr wonderfull. I tunr on the pump with the coolant in the res and water :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:ing spills all over the floor becuase of one tiny leak in the outlet of the barb in rad #1. :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: in hell! oh well, something to fix up.

[FaTs]

Nice setup :D

Did you braze the 2nd one yourself ?

[kommando]

Nah dad did it with som eother special glue.Stupid stupid me, damn hose clamp needs to be tightened but won't tighten more :(