Project LUNAR ICE

[Wstinkbait]

A 226W pelt cooled Maze 4 CPU, And a 80 watt pelt cooled Z-Chip. The ATI X800xt is cooled with the MCW50-t. There are Dallas one-wire sensors on each block for the LCD display.

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/pelt5.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/caseStage3_5.JPG

The Corsair XMS4000 Memory is cooled with a pair of Lighted 40mm fans on a suspended rack.
http://members.cox.net/wesc502/memorycooler9.JPG http://members.cox.net/wesc502/memorycooler6.JPG http://members.cox.net/wesc502/memorycooler11.JPG

[saaya]

nice!

what are your temps like?
you should get a 5.25" bay display that shows all the temps of your cpu, nb and gpu plus maybe water temp and ambient temp!

[Wstinkbait]

The 6 disk Raid arrays, 2 SCSI 360 10k/80gb in Raid 0. And 4 IDE 133 in Raid 0+1. Cooled with three sets of SILENTstar Core Dual waterblocks. These run on their own pump and rad.

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/hddcooler3.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/hddcooler6.jpg



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[Wstinkbait]

This is shot of idle temps CPU will go to 27c and GPU to 32. after an hour or so of Far Cry.

[Wstinkbait]

The thermochill 120.3 with 6 120 mm fan is the hart. Two Meanwell s-320-12 power suplies for the pelts and a Eheim 1250 pump. Is remote con troled from the PC and sports it's own power suply for electronics and lights.

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf12.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf10.jpg

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf16.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf17.jpg

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf26.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf24.jpg

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf22.jpg http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf18.jpg

http://members.cox.net/wesc502/lf27.jpg [IMG]

[saaya]

wow, then i think your heatercore cant handle all the heat under load... what are your water temps under load?

[Wstinkbait]

LOL, This is the latest problem. (and I was thinking of adding more pelts). The water will rise to 45c (from around 32) after an hour or so of game play. Then the chips heat up to normal air cooling levels. so now I'm looking into building a small chiller. To keep water just cool enough to avoid condensation.

[saaya]

hmmmmmm

i would rather recommend you a second heatercore!

you will have a 227W cpu+80W nb+172W gpu, that means your heatercore has to dissipate 400W+135W+225W thats 750W :eek:

no wonder your water gets hot hehe :D
chilling the water will mean an extra loop and even more power consumption and huge electricity bills.

id recommend you to just get a second rad, thats much cheaper and will give you almost the same results :)

[Wstinkbait]

I did consider that as well, In fact I found this one from Wizard Designs (http://www.wizarddesigns.co.uk/rads.htm)

[Anemone]

If you could just dissipate the heat, the pelts would do their work. I second the idea of more rad or perhaps a dual or pair of dual heatercores even better

[Anemone]

Your flow rate through that Wizard designs thing is going to stink badly :(

[saaya]

weeeeee the site takes forver to load

[Wstinkbait]

If you think one more 3x120 mm will do it, I'm for that. Would still like to play will chilled water system but I think I' build a top overclocker for that. This one has too much crap on it as it is.

BTW, thanks for combining my threads. Whoever did that.

[saaya]

i did that :) didnt you get my pm about it?

and yeah, a second 3x120 will be more than enough and should get you great temps.

[=[PULSAR]=]

o0o0o0o0o0o...what about the radiator on there site that has the 15x120mm fan. Do you think that would be a great radiator or would it restrict flow too much. Do you think 2 320GPH pumps could handle that? One for the radiator and one for all the blocks?

[Wstinkbait]

Yea, That's the one I was talking about. I was not realy too worried about flow restriction as one can always get a larger pump or just add another one as you said. but the thing is larger than most car radiators and requires $180 worth of fans, lol

[=[PULSAR]=]

Yea I thought about that afterwards last night I want a fan that costs $18 a piece and if you do push/pull config thats $540 worth of fans!!! :rolleyes: Maybe I will just use a floor fan.

[saaya]

where do you pay that much for your fans? i got my 120mm 100cfm deltas for 10$ a piece on ebay. new of course.

they are silent at 5v, like absolutely silent! and they still move a lot of air.