Water Cooled Case Gallery

Here's my current system-- water cooling in mATX rocks. :) Tricky, but it rocks.
Were it not for the HDD, this machine would be fully silent. I've since replaced the Phantom PSU with an Enermax Liberty which is still silent.

http://epicgaming.us/baug/pcassembly_open.jpg

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The 120mm radiator mounts to the back in push-pull configuration.

http://epicgaming.us/baug/pcassembly_fanmounting.jpg
The radiator and fans attach with a combination of screws and zip ties, and the fans operate at ~7 VDC.

http://epicgaming.us/baug/pcassembly_leftside.jpg
http://epicgaming.us/baug/pcassembly_rightside.jpg
All closed up and ready to roll.

Specs:
* CPU: Athlon X2 4000+ Brisbane 65nm 2.1 GHz for Socket AM2 OC'd to 2.85 GHz
* Motherboard: Biostar TA-690G AM2 Motherboard w/ AMD690G Chipset
* RAM: 2x 1GB DDR2-667 Patriot Memory Sticks
* Video Card: eVGA e-8600GT 256MB PCI-E w/ 256MB GDDR3
* Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 PCI
* System HDD: 1x Western Digital SE16 320GB SATA-II HDD w/ 16 MB Cache
* Storage HDDs: 1x Samsung Spinpoint T 320GB SATA-II HDD w/ 16MB Cache, Western Digital SE16 640GB SATA-II w/ 16 MB Cache
* Optical Drive: NEC ND-3540A DVD+/-RW Double Layer Burner/Combo Drive
* Power Supply: Enermax Liberty 400W PSU
* Case: Athenatech A301BS.400 MicroATX
* Cooling System: Koolance CPU-330 CPU Waterblock, XSPC X2O GPU Waterblock, DangerDen Black Ice Stealth GT 120mm Radiator, XSPC X2O Combo Reservoir/Pump, 1/4″ ID, 3/8″ OD Tygon tubing, Koolance G1/4″ Compression fittings, Primochill PC Ice Nonconductive coolant, 2x Cooler Master 120mm fans, 1 Generic 120mm

Considering upping that to a Phenom X4 down the road, and also swapping out the Spinpoint for another SE16 for maximum silence.

What do you guys think?

I would cut out that fan grill.

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Originally Posted by HotGore

I would cut out that fan grill.

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You REALLY need to cut out that fan grille, I wouldn't be surprised to see your temps drop by 10C or more.


Other than that, neat little build. :)

What temps you getting epicentre?

heh is it just me, or do IDE cables make you throw up a little? ;)

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new to this forum =]

epicenter,its not good to put togheter tubes,heat exchange its whorst,try to sepparate tubes.

XxTechxX love it ! U have the same mobo as me... good choose ;]

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Originally Posted by mit78

epicenter,its not good to put togheter tubes,heat exchange its whorst,try to sepparate tubes.

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I bet there's virtually no evidence to support that. Temps around loops tend to be pretty constant from what i understand.

Cleaned my horrible rig's wiring a bit:)
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i will make a couple of changes to the pipe going from res to pump soon and shorten the pipe from the pump to rear rad..

My own made watercool case, simple but work very well:) Hope you like it!

Link to the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/ManoWaari/WaterChilled

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Originally Posted by ManoWaari

My own made watercool case, simple but work very well:) Hope you like it!

Link to the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/ManoWaari/WaterChilled

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This is the "case" that you were selling but cancelled?

Sick of waiting for all this new stuff to come out. So close! August seems forever away! Let alone end of 2008... :(

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Originally Posted by MayDay84

This is the "case" that you were selling but cancelled?

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Yes it's.

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Originally Posted by ideate

Sick of waiting for all this new stuff to come out. So close! August seems forever away! Let alone end of 2008... :(

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can you please show us benchmarks comparing the two RAID0 setups you have ?

a Welcome to the new guys. keep those pictures coming.

ideate nice drives you got there...

woot! They just keep on comming. :D I'm gonna have to post a little update on my rig. :D

My first watercooled setup, AMD 3800+ and 7600 GT both overclocked:
http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08290/kone2188.jpg
Eheim Compact 600 -> Thermaltake Aquabay M2 -> Zalman ZM-WB3 Gold -> Black Ice + Aerocool Turbine 3000 -> Zalman ZM-GWB3


And my current setup, Intel E6420 and X1950XTX both overclocked:
http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08290/kuvatus013362.jpg
Swiftech MCP655-B -> Alphacool NVXP-3 -> car radiator (passive) -> Swiftech Apogee GT

Worklog: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=195498

nice setups

my cs wc box

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Originally Posted by Fragger

Im psychotic, nah just a good guess. Thats a nice build but I would of used shorter tube clamps, dont like all that extra metal hanging off them, and get that gpu underwater but you may need some more rad for that.

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LOL, I already thought you had a sick mind. :p: :D I agree on the wormclamps and was thinking of cutting of the slack. Maybe I will add GPU watercooling because I noticed it generates a fairly amount of heat. However my bankaccount has to grow first after buying the new hardware.

MayDay84 what case is it?

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Originally Posted by LeChuck

I'm here! :)


My watercooled system (work not finished yet...):

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4834/cimg1727tr1.jpg
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Hardware:

Core2 Duo E6600 @ 3375MHz @ 1.3V, Asus Striker Extreme, OCZ FlexXLC Edition DIMM Kit 2048MB PC2-9200U CL5-5-5-18 (DDR2-1150), 2 x Leadtek Winfast PX8800 GTX TDH with black PCB, Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB 16MB SATA II, Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7173S SATA, !!! 17 Euro Tronje T120 !!!, Enermax Liberty 500W (yes it works), Enermax Aurora Keyboard Silver, Logitech MX 518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse

Watercooled by

2x Thermochill PA120.3 Triple Radiator (silver), 6x Yate Loon D12SL-12 @5V, Laing DDC 12V Ultra, Black EK Waterblocks for Asus Striker Extreme, 2x Black EK Waterblocks for 8800 GTX, Swiftech Apogee GT, Tygon 11/8 and: Water! :)

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awsome :up:

Kaka vn - I think that's a bit of visual humour to have a Skulltrail and an AMD gpu :)

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Originally Posted by MrHydes

awsome :up:

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Why the heck did you quote a post from 05-26-2007? You think that's good?...wait until you get to some of the newer posted rigs. :rofl: