Watercooling on NCCH-DL twice 3.6 GB 2mb cache Irwindales!

hi guys, I just wanna show you some pics about my watercooling system I builded.Sorry 4 my bad English, am Belgian.

Purchased 2 Xeons 3.6 Gigabyte 2 mb cache, Irwindales and a board NCCH-DL: had already 2 RBX, purchased a Eheim 1048.

Thought about the cooling system, saw already systems where the outlet from cpu1 was going as inlet for cpu 2. I thought it was not such a good idea to cool the second cpu by water passed thrue the first cpu.

So I set up another system where the outlet from te waterpump runs into a T from to the inlets from both RBX.

One RBX has one inlet and two outlets. I was forced to install two Y pieces and from thos two Y pieces into 1 Y piece , then to the inlet from the radiator, from the outlet radiator to an expansion and from there inlet pump.

Size hoses :12,5 mm inside

Further: Nvidia card 6900,and 2 old Mushkins 256 MB each.

hard disk: 32 WD raptor

Psu: see specs.

link to my feavourite little forum: LINK

in Dutch, but watch the pics! on page 4

Already 3:

what kind of radiator are you using?

just a word for the international guests, whats the problem with Xeons Irwindales? They get really hot, I saw temps around 70 or 80 degrees Celsius air cooled . With their 2 mb cache they get hot like Prescotts.

Building a Watercooling System is a solution, but in general, people use a wrong technique: they use hoses 8 mm inside, and set the two cpu s paralel. It means that the water passes thrue the first cpu, get warm and then passes the second cpu to cool it. Wrong I thought, but easy to install. Wrong size of hoses for these babies, wrong technique also! Mines have 12,5 mm inside!

I choosed another solution. I installed a nylon T on the outlet hose waterpump and two hoses on the inlet from both RBX! Both cpu s get cold water. One RBX had two outlets, so I had to put two nylon Y pieces on both RBX and after them another Y piece to go to the inlet radiator. From the outlet radiator, it goes to a reservoir, from the reservoir to the inlet pump.
This difficult system forced me to use several 90 degrees nylon stuff to prevend the hoses fom shutting by plying.

I used a Eheim 1048 pump, makes no noise. In combination with a 15 cm Papst to cool the radiator.

I used a single rad! Blackice I think.

see more pics on THIS LINK, feel free to post comment as guest, I asked the administrator to open it for everyone.

Of course feel free to ask here, no problem. :D

are thoes t-lines being used to split water flow to the chipset block or w/e is in the middle? if no that block is getting ZERO flow - so watch out!!

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Originally Posted by Sneaky

are thoes t-lines being used to split water flow to the chipset block or w/e is in the middle? if no that block is getting ZERO flow - so watch out!!

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Yeah whatch out man! You need a Y splitter not a T splitter because the flow will go to the easier pathway which is, of course, straight.

Usama aka Ferrari Freak