How to cool the prescott. Take retail heatsink and give it a little boost.

[ol' man]

I call it the block sink. half heat sink, half water block.

http://hhrol.50g.com/blocksink/blocksink3.jpg

Click here to see how I did it.
http://hhrol.50g.com/blocksink/block_sink.htm

[Wiggy McShades]

what temps are you getting with that? that is amazingly ghetto but kinda cool

[kryptobs2000]

that looks pretty cool, what kinda temps you get and does it really make a difference if you have a fan on it or not? Like does it transfer heat well to the fins?

[ol' man]

what temps are you getting with that? that is amazingly ghetto but kinda cool

Well it dropped my load temps by 10 deg. C @ 3.73GHz and 1.4v.

I plan on putting a shroud with a cooler master blower around the heatsink also to help with cooling. This will help keep the nuclear mosfets cooler also.

In order to use the heatsink mechanism you had to lift the whole intake outake above it.

I was thinking of ripping out a couple fins and tapping the side cause then you could run a fan directly on top of the whole device.
Something like this.

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That would take alot more time. This took like 1 hour. All you need to get are PEX copper parts. This was made almost wholly from PEX.

[ol' man]

Also wanted to add that for testing purposes I have a couple fans blowing on the northbridge and mosfets as also the heatsink.

[afireinside]

Ghetto ius right. PCice did a similar design with a copper cap and a stock LGA pressy sink.

[ol' man]

Ghetto ius right. PCice did a similar design with a copper cap and a stock LGA pressy sink.

Can you link me to it? Ghetto it may be but it works.

http://hhrol.50g.com/blocksink/blocksinkcs.gif

[ol' man]

I can't find this thread about PCice.

[caLume]

not bad :up:

[lalPOOO]

Pretty nice, but PC ICE did beat you to it :p:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44132

[ol' man]

Pretty nice, but PC ICE did beat you to it :p:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44132

Yep but I guess my design is a little different. I didn't see that. I still would have posted. The HS he used is a little different. The sock 478 HS don't have copper all the way to the top. So I guess I am the first (maybe) to do it with a sock 478 cooler. I just mainly wanted to show folks that they can use those heatsinks for something anyway. I still think it would be kick ass to com in from the side and tap the heat sink and run a straight through design. Then you could still keep the fan on the HS too or the way I set mine up you could put I think any 70~60mm fan on it.

[heater918]

It would be interesting to compare with commercial blocks. When Maxx gets set up to test blocks maybe you could build one for him to test. I for one would like to see how homemade compares to commercial i think a lot of these designs would hold there on. Good work :up:

[lalPOOO]

Yep but I guess my design is a little different. I didn't see that. I still would have posted. The HS he used is a little different. The sock 478 HS don't have copper all the way to the top. So I guess I am the first (maybe) to do it with a sock 478 cooler. I just mainly wanted to show folks that they can use those heatsinks for something anyway. I still think it would be kick ass to com in from the side and tap the heat sink and run a straight through design. Then you could still keep the fan on the HS too or the way I set mine up you could put I think any 70~60mm fan on it.


Don't worry about it, I'm glad you posted it :) Its great to see new ideas, even if they aren't always that new, they may be to some people. What might be even cooler was if you could run chilled water through the block and still have a fan over it. It'd be tough to avoid condensation perfectly, but you'd not only get a cool cpu, you'd get great cold air blowing on your mosfets, ram, and whatever else was around the cpu socket.

[ol' man]

http://hhrol.50g.com/blocksink/4ghz.png

I am running 2 6"x7"x1.25" heater cores soldered together with 2 120mm fans on both sides one pushing the other pulling. These are about 1000 rpm fans. Of course they are silent. Also the pump is a 12v 500gph aeriator pump.

Case temp is wrong. It is always 25 deg. C no matter what. Just sitting next to this computer and I start sweating.

[ol' man]

Here are some snappies of inside the case cleaned up with my X800XL.

http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase2.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase3.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase5.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase6.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/insidecase7.jpg
http://hhrol.50g.com/outsidecase.jpg


When I put some 2000 rpm fans on the rads temps dropped 5 deg. C.

Temps were 53 deg. C with ambient 28.1 deg. C.

[saratoga]

Looks a lot like the old 1/2 in Swiftech blocks, back when they used those open chamber designs.

[ol' man]

Looks a lot like the old 1/2 in Swiftech blocks, back when they used those open chamber designs.

Do you have a link to this? I am not familiar with this block.

[Psyche911]

Interesting...
What's the deal with the big green plastic thing? And what an unusual reservoir...