Water cooling Quad on DFI 680i LT on the bench (er Dining Room Table)
Just thought I'd pop a couple of pictures in here of my bench setup for my new build... an X3220 on a DFI 680i LT using an Apogee GTX a DDC Ultra, and a Thermochill 120.2 with a couple of YL SL's on airflow duty.
I'm currently finding the OC on the bench (or the dining room table as it were) before I put it all in the Stacker.
Ultimately, I'll be cooling the NB, SB, and a GPU (TBD) via second loop. The equipment shown here will be my "production" cooling loop for the CPU.
Load temps under 4 instances of PRIME95 range from 58 to 63-deg C depending on the size of the FFT being executed! Idle temps are around 43-deg C. This is at a toasty 1.5 Vcore runnig 400x9 MHz.
The Apogee GTX is a sweet looking block. The Scythe backplate is also a nice piece... very solid... thanks to those that recommended it! I had to modify it slightly as you will see below, cutting out some of the insulating sticky layer to work around some surface mount components that were under the backplate in one corner. I also had to bore out the holes to accept #6 screws for mounting the GTX.
Here's the back side of the motherboard under the CPU where the backplate needs to go... Note the surface mount components to the upper right area...
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I cut away some of the sticky insulating layer and put electrical tape as an insulator instead...
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Here is how the cut-out fits around the surface mount components...
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Here's the Apogee block on the board...
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Note how the backplate keeps the board from bending...
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The "bench" loop... :D
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