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The fittings on my MD-20RZ are 11/16", my Weapon HC will have 5/8" Fittings, everything else is 1/2", so really the only place I can use bigger tubing is from the pump to the radiator, I'm thinking Tygon 5/8" ID 15/16" OD, then 1/2" ID 3/4" OD for everything else, sound good?
I don't see why not, but I have never built a water cooling system yet. I'm going to run 5/8" to and from my PC and use only 1/2" ID inside the pc. I'm going to use 1" PVC pipe from my res to intake of my Iwaki, and the rest of the tubing will be 5/8" ID.
Here is a couple of pics of the res I will using. Its a polycarbonat Icehot air tight 2 qt. container. My question is which would be better as a setup, pump mounted to bottum or to the side of my rad box?
Pump mounted to side wall of rad box
or
Pump and res flat on the bottum
Here is a little leak test I tried
Here are a few pics of the mod to the pump intake to the res...
Side view
Front view
Top view
Maxx, if you see this I have a question. If I run a 1" pvc tub from the top of the res to the top of my rad box and use this as a fill tube, also could I run my return line into this fill tube so it acts like an air trap? Would that hert flow rates?
Well, here is my completed reservoir. I don't think it will have too much impact on flow, cause I used 1 1/2" PVC to construct an air trap and fill tube. I will fill it to about 2" from the top so the 2 qt. res will be completely filled with coolant and hopefully the air trap will keep the bubbles to the top of the trap.
Here is the res with the modifications, the barb is for draining and you can see the 1 1/2" fitting on top.
I made the inside flush so when I fill air will escape.
This is my 1 1/2" PVC air trap with the 5/8" ID return line attached and end cap.
This is how it looks put all together.
I used plumbers goop for all the seals with 2 layers. The return line is connected straight in to the end cap of the Y. The last two seals to be made are the Y to the res and pump to res, but I will do this when I install it in the rad box.
Spatman, i see you are coming along with project.Looks like we both need 1 more piece to complete. Will you be cooling GPU also. I originally started out to cool my 3.4EE & 9800 but while waiting on G5 i have thought about just getting new mobo,AMD & ATI???.I've convinced wife that is the smartest thing to do :D She can use this puter & i won't have to gut mobo etc.& have more pieces laying around. Your setup looks like it will cool very good only restriction u have is G5.
Yes, I will also add a WB for the vid card. Weapon sent me a PM and my monster core is going through last testing. We all know that it is a waiting game for the G5 so I will have my rad box done and tested before it arrives!
spatman that looks nice.. it should allw you to get the MAX flow through ur iwaki. congrats on the res.
i see hte pvc tubing u mentioned. you just want to run ur return line through it. i odnt see why you couldnt. it would just dump out into the res as soon as it gets to the end of the 1 inch pvc tube. but my question is y is there a y fitting there.? and why is there tubing comng out of it?
That tubing is the return line, the barb in the res is for draining and it will be hooked up to qwick disconnects. I put the Y there after reading some post on pro cooling forums about air traps. I want to have any air trap in the fill tube and the 2 qt res full with nothing but coolent.
I know Maxx, this is my first time at this k :) The top of the 2 qt res will be sealed shut with goop, and the way the rad box is I would not be able to open the res...
Better yet, I will post some pics with the setup in my rad box. I made it out of a printer stand that I had in my closet.
can you link me to the thread on pro cooling. im not sure what ur talking about.
Ok here it is, I have a few more things to do to it but...
I will have the weapons monster core in the open area. Painted and with the shroud its almost like a work of art so I will no hide it.
Front view
Disconnects for draining
Inside the box and power supply
Box with pump, res and fill/air trap
Back view
This is my first box, and I'm sure I will build another.The line from the core and the line to the fill/air trap will have to be spliced with 5/8" Y to hook up disconnects for draining. I know I might have a hit in flow, but being able to connect 2 lines to empty the whole system (Not the core) is a convenience.
hmm. interesting. so that tube going into the 1inch pvc is the retun line. it flows from the outside and into that. am i getting this right.
and where does the rad sit in al of this. also what is that extra fitting on the res. im trying to think how the core would connect up to all of this.
The barb in the lower part of the res will be hooked up to a qwick disconnect to empty the res. When I attach the end cap to the pvc the only way of getting it out is to hack the pvc, it will make flushing a breezzzz.
Here is the supply and return lines to the pc
This is the out flow from core
That tube will run between the pump and res to the other side. The 5/8" T or Y will be inside the box and will run to one of the disconnects.
This is for the outlet from pump to core
The barb from the res will have 1/2" running to a small valve then to the outlet of one of the disconnects. This will be on the opposit side of the 5/8" barb that the flow is on.
Yes that tube will be the return from the storm G5. It then runs into the pvc and trap the air at the top then the flow will move down to the res. The only two fitting I will use in the box is 5/8" Y to run to the disconnects.
still lost but ok. ill just have to wait to see when its done..
Here is a very crude scetch of the plumbing...
Plumbing
so on the end of thos quick disconnects you will have what? or are those just so you can press teh button on them and drain the water. thats kinda what im getting from what you did.
Yes, its just for draining. I was looking in the us plastics catalog and found some tees that are 3/4" 3/4" with 1/2" barb. I will be using them insted of 5/8" Ys. I want to minimize flow restriction.
good idea.. y's add more turbulence to your directed flow rate than would the T's. especially considering the T's are bigger.
Here is a pic of the drain and flush lines with the male disconnect on them. To drain I would open my end cap on the fill tube then attach these to the disconnects on the box.
Disconnects
sounds good.
Is green line a drain line from res. ?
What does valve do.
edit do i have flow right?
Yes, but mainly the disconnects will drain all the lines and res but not the Rad. I will ether disconnect the rad and empty or just fill the res with pump on and disconnects attach to flush.
The valve is needed so you don't get back wash into the res from the Rad. If it was just a tee, you would have a loop between the outlet of the core to the res.
Thanks heater, I'm not that great at drawing a picture. Pictures are worth a thousand words so my vocabulare is limited, lol
You know i was thinking along the same idea as your set up, before family got my new case and all. I was in process of building external set up. I had allready ordered enheim 1250, res. tygon & i have set of colder disconects. I would like to add disconects to my system but i'm afraid my pump my not handle it (dd4 laing). Colder disconects have a X piece inside valve i thought about drilling that out so as to decrease resistence?
Will be following close so as to see how your set up performs it looks well thought out for 1st. time. With my spare pump & stuff i will set something similiar up.