Ancient1
03-10-2005, 12:58 AM
Hi
I've been having a homemade watercooling system for 6Yrs now. I watercool the CPU, CHIPSET, VIDEO plus it influences the internal PC temp. The system is built around external 2 splitters (in flow , out flow) which give me a VERY good ease of mainatinance, as the dismantle a video card means I just take the pipe out of the splitter ( actually 2 pipes, duh)
I dismatled the cooling system from my old fridge. tested : works.
Took me a while to find a good and cheap way to create a water tank for the freezer. Too expensive to replace it with new & smaller evaporator. Too hard to find a proper size container to put the freezer in.
I ended up using plastic hardened "cloth" to wrap the freezer, inside strong cardboard (the freezer itself is the skeleton) and put it all in plywood-styrofoam sandwiches with extra soft foam isolation.
I installed the freezer system in my balcony right on the other side of the wall behind my PC, and put isolation on the pipes to/from the splitters. The freezer is above the PC versus the previous tank which is on the floor under the table, so cpu-sys temp diff decreased i.e better flow and cooling.
I decided on keeping temps above dew point to avoid the need to isolate the pipes inside the PC as I have an Antec Sonata with acoustic foam. soo quiet :) , and its kinda cramped inside, not to mention the need to dremel hole (pipes enter through a Slot opening)
The original Thermostat in not built for high (~15C ) temps.
What I did is connect the freezer power cable to a standalone electric socket with 12V Relay I have, the Relay is activated by 12V current from a Fan onboard socket.
I'm using SpeedFan to switch the Fan On/Off according to SYSTEM Temp (!) . SYSTEM is much more stable than CPU , when I play CPU rises so Freezer kicks in but when I stop playing I enede up with dew drops because it overcooled ! . With SYSTEM its much easier to set a temp and not have infrequent starts of the Freezer which doesn't do good to the Compressor.
I'm still trying to find the best way to control the cooling. As Dew Point changes with Temps, so it might be nice to have the SpeedFan SYSTEM temp change with ambient temp and humidity. I want to keep the PC as cool as possible to enable me to OC a bit more .
I raised my CPU speed by 10% with Freezer , to 2420 Mhz vs 2200Mhz before . That's a XP 2500+ (1834Mhz) CPU I have.
I would appreciate any suggestion and links on how to build /buy a thermistor/software control (hard) panel. ( I mean control temps like SpeedFan or MBM , or using a small LCD panel).
Cheers
I've been having a homemade watercooling system for 6Yrs now. I watercool the CPU, CHIPSET, VIDEO plus it influences the internal PC temp. The system is built around external 2 splitters (in flow , out flow) which give me a VERY good ease of mainatinance, as the dismantle a video card means I just take the pipe out of the splitter ( actually 2 pipes, duh)
I dismatled the cooling system from my old fridge. tested : works.
Took me a while to find a good and cheap way to create a water tank for the freezer. Too expensive to replace it with new & smaller evaporator. Too hard to find a proper size container to put the freezer in.
I ended up using plastic hardened "cloth" to wrap the freezer, inside strong cardboard (the freezer itself is the skeleton) and put it all in plywood-styrofoam sandwiches with extra soft foam isolation.
I installed the freezer system in my balcony right on the other side of the wall behind my PC, and put isolation on the pipes to/from the splitters. The freezer is above the PC versus the previous tank which is on the floor under the table, so cpu-sys temp diff decreased i.e better flow and cooling.
I decided on keeping temps above dew point to avoid the need to isolate the pipes inside the PC as I have an Antec Sonata with acoustic foam. soo quiet :) , and its kinda cramped inside, not to mention the need to dremel hole (pipes enter through a Slot opening)
The original Thermostat in not built for high (~15C ) temps.
What I did is connect the freezer power cable to a standalone electric socket with 12V Relay I have, the Relay is activated by 12V current from a Fan onboard socket.
I'm using SpeedFan to switch the Fan On/Off according to SYSTEM Temp (!) . SYSTEM is much more stable than CPU , when I play CPU rises so Freezer kicks in but when I stop playing I enede up with dew drops because it overcooled ! . With SYSTEM its much easier to set a temp and not have infrequent starts of the Freezer which doesn't do good to the Compressor.
I'm still trying to find the best way to control the cooling. As Dew Point changes with Temps, so it might be nice to have the SpeedFan SYSTEM temp change with ambient temp and humidity. I want to keep the PC as cool as possible to enable me to OC a bit more .
I raised my CPU speed by 10% with Freezer , to 2420 Mhz vs 2200Mhz before . That's a XP 2500+ (1834Mhz) CPU I have.
I would appreciate any suggestion and links on how to build /buy a thermistor/software control (hard) panel. ( I mean control temps like SpeedFan or MBM , or using a small LCD panel).
Cheers