Post Your T.E.C. Setups!!!

[Method Man]

Well I guess I will start..here is my baby

[gtcrispy]

lol i would post mine but its umm... in my garage in a box. Haven't set it up since my mobo got fried. Just too lazy. ALot of money just sitting there

[Pimpsho]

Originally posted by gtcrispy
lol i would post mine but its umm... in my garage in a box. Haven't set it up since my mobo got fried. Just too lazy. ALot of money just sitting there

damn thats to bad it fried but i would take the 462 off your hands if u dont need it

[Marci]

www.over-clock.co.uk/marci/

All the galleries are there and I think it's already in about 20 similar threads on this forum somewhere.... buried in the depths of time!

[mdzcpa]

100% self-contained and completely turn key. It's a bit heavy, but totally portable and has gone to many a LAN party.

Modded Swiftech Quiet Power (H202-B Kit with high rpm fans)
226w CPU TEC, 80w GPU TEC
MCW462-UT; MCW50-T
Meanwell S320
Rheobus to control noise and performance level
Pump and TEC PSU relays
Temp and flow rate auto shutdowns

Although cooling is great, it's not extreme. But it has a serious attention to detail and a turn key OEM feel.

[gtcrispy]

Originally posted by Pimpsho
damn thats to bad it fried but i would take the 462 off your hands if u dont need it

Thanks for the offer. Might have to think about it. Having some more money would be nice. I've kind of stopped buying computer stuff and moved onto guns lol. Tomorrow i'm 18 and i'm gonna order a Bushmaster Ar-15 M4.

I'll probably wait till summer to hook it all back up. At the moment my mobo is dead yet again.... Mom managed to knock my 17in trintron off the top of my case and onto my mobo that was on my floor. Cracked montior though it works and one busted 8RDA.

[Peckers]

Some pics of my rig:

link

[Ocbench]

Ilúvatar..

What kinda temp´s are you getting with your 226watt pelt on the AMD? Both IDLE and Full load....

[Peckers]

Ocbench*

Right now with 23C in the room and 1.85V:
Idle:~ core=6 diode=10
Load:~ core=14 diode=12

I only booted at 1.5V once running at 13.5*133 and for maybe 15 minutes and I remember the core temp showed -11 "idle"

[Major]

Originally posted by gtcrispy
Tomorrow i'm 18 and i'm gonna order a Bushmaster Ar-15 M4.

Mom managed to knock my 17in trintron off the top of my case and onto my mobo that was on my floor. Cracked montior though it works and one busted 8RDA.

Ok slow down gtcrispy !!!! maybe you need to talk this over with your local police department, your mom loves you and you don't want to do anyting you'll regret later !!! It was just you mb and monitor not the end of the world you know.

I get my MCW5000-pt next week along with a meanwell 320, so I'll let you guys know what I can do with it. I hope I have simular results as mdzcpa, I would love to be able to hit 4g with my 3.0c !

[gtcrispy]

LOL no worries. Its only for non-human targets. Good luck with the new heatsink. I just lost the desire. Now if I had more money I would see no problem having both hobbies

[Colin]

I guess better late then never.

Not the prettiest but it works ok... I need to get myself a better/2nd radiator though.

[zippyc]

1x226W, 1x 170W, 1x80W, another 226W on its way...cold loop powered by Iwaki IW-30, Cathar's whitewater block on CPU. Cold loop for GPU and CPU.

Ambient air-cooled water loop for NB and 9700's memory.

Cold loop gets to 8C, 20C under heavy gaming (I found Gore is more of a load than looping madonion).

The silver Dell case houses the pump and pelts.

Second radiator box with two more raddies on it's way too...

[zippyc]

I ran my hoses and power cords thorugh my wall and into the guest room to keep heat out of my office.

This is the picture of the "Arse End" of my system. No guest shall ever get cold..... ;-)

[Pimpsho]

those setups area so tight im gettin a meanwell 320 and a 462uht and i have 2 rads a procore and bixrev2 and a L30 and my custom case that is in the buildin stage....what kinda temps should i expect?

[zippyc]

IMHO your temps will depend upon how well you cool your water loop, and of course what processor and what voltages you use.

I have seen people claim 12C under load with that block, and that was in a cool environment with similar flow (20C ambient, 2 big heater cores with 100+cfm over them).

The real answer is "I dunno". It should work well for you as long as you are not adding a GPU TEC. If you do you might need more radiating space.

And my setup is different because I don't trust TEC's so I run a cold loop/hot loop setup which is a bit different from direct pelting.

In direct pelting you run a bigger risk of catasrophic CPU or GPU heat in event of a pelt failure, where a dual loop system adds some redundancies. (Although such failures are rare).

[Pimpsho]

got ne pics of your setup?

[mdzcpa]

Originally posted by zippyc
In direct pelting you run a bigger risk of catasrophic CPU or GPU heat in event of a pelt failure

Did someone say "catastrophic" failure?

[zippyc]

mdzcpa,

That's the kind of failure that gives me nightmares! My sympathies to you and yours.

Pimpso, the pics I posted above show my converted dell chassis/pump house that contains the pelt sandwich, an Iwaki IW-30 Pump, and an antec PS-510. (Silver,lower right, with the lan-li aluminum dual temp monitor.)

Inside I have insulated the cold hoses with rudimentary insulation (a couple layers of paper towels surrounded by aluminum foil, in fact, knowing I'm tearing the system apart in the next week to add blocks and another pelt. I’ll do a proper job of it next week.).

The pelt sandwich is tucked away in the space normally occupied by 5.25" drives, so there is not much to show there.

The sandwich is insulated everywhere it touches air with neoprene (Dr. Shoals around the pelts, old wetsuit for the rest), and then wrapped in duct tape for good measure.

So I figure I'll diagram it for you here for illustrative purposes (sorry 'bout the crappy out of scale drawing), and then I'll post a pic of most of the parts I used before they all got hidden away:

The three smaller pumps are the Maxijet 1200 (295GPH). The radiators are 10.5x 5.5 x 2 heater cores with dual 76CFM fans sucking/blowing in parallel through both cores, 2 per box, for a total of four.

The big pump is for the cold loop and is the Iwaki mag drive capable of ~500 GPH with 17.1 Feet of head. Flow is split into two at the computer to run by the Whitewater CPU Clock for the CPU, and the Gemini Spral block for the GPU.

A seperate ambient air-cooled loop (not shown!) is running by my Northbridge and by my R9700's memory for water cooling there without condensation worries, and to apply the cold where I see benefits from better temps.

[zippyc]

I did not illustrate the pelts, which are in between each of the three blocks, cold sides applied to the center block on each side.

And here are the guts and blocks.

[mdzcpa]

Good info there zippyc.

For the most part TEC failures are very rare indeed. My "accident" was caused from my own stupidity. I passed on having the TEC PSU relayed (even though I had a relay just sitting in my desk drawer). So, when the temp spiked beyond what I had ever expected it to hit one night while I was sleeping, the system shutdown....but not the TEC I awoke to a wonderful smell.

Anyway, that kind of disaster really is easily avoided. You can either set up the system like you have, or just make sure you have judicious use of relays and temp monitoring. My pump and TEC PSU are now run through relays, so everything is either on, or off, together. Turning on the system is a one button affair. That in conjunction with good MBM alarm and shutdown, and the use of back up BIOS shutdowns, has the system 100% bullet proof. She's been trouble free running 24/7 for nine months now.

Too bad I had to learn the hard way. That XP 2200 and KX7 were no more than a few days old at the time Oh well...live and learn

[Pimpsho]

how wouldi go about doing that with my setup how do u have the relays? i would like to do the same so i dont "live and learn"

[mdzcpa]

The relays are powered by the regular system ATX power supply. When the PSU is powered on (system booted) the relay circuit is "closed" and powers up whatever you have connected through the relay.

I run a relay on my TEC PSU, and my water pump.

You can see how I hooked them up in my Quiet Power TEC Upgrade Article .

[cygnus_x_1]

finally got some pics of my rig online...just been too lazy/busy...









nf7-s v2, barton 2500, gffx 5800 ultra, 2x256 twinmos 3700, seagate sata 120

pelts: swiffy mcw462+ uht & mcw50-t, bix2, hydor l30
h2o: z-chip, bix pro, hydor l20

fully turn key, and portable, buts its damn heavy...

[Colin]

cygnus_x_1! Nice setup!