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[camouflage]

Your thread has REALLY inspired me to use this type of set up, especially since you ironed out all the difficult parts of the build. Thanks for posting. Its a great way to get into the world of chillers w/o having to do anything too insane.

One question if you don't mind; did you ever consider mounting a rad as the last part of the loop before returning to the reservoir so that you can eliminate a decent amount of heat and not warm the water as quickly? I thought that might lengthen the time between cooling down your 30 L tank. What are your thoughts on this?

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I have a second question that just popped in my head. Using your current set up w/ 30 L, how long do you think you can run your loop w/ the chiller shut off before the temps go beyond tolerable? I would think if you didn't do any xtreme OC, you could run it for 3 or 4 hours before introducing the chiller into the loop again?

Sorry for the annoying questions. I have been playing around with the chiller idea for a few weeks and your loops seems as close as to what I want to do.

Mounting a rad would cause no advantage - let's say I have 25°C room temp here in Summer - so the rad is not able to cool down the water sub room temp, that's the reason the chiller does all the work.

Regarding to Your 2nd question, when my system is OCed near limit so that I need really cold water I can set off the chiller and have cold water for almost one hour - but I forgot to insulate the tank, if You do that with some Armaflex the cold will last longer.

When my system is not OCed I can run it without switching on the chiller.

My current E8400 runs 9x333 @ 0.984 Vcore - this is stable even with water temp = room temp.

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Mounting a rad would cause no advantage - let's say I have 25°C room temp here in Summer - so the rad is not able to cool down the water sub room temp, that's the reason the chiller does all the work.

Regarding to Your 2nd question, when my system is OCed near limit so that I need really cold water I can set off the chiller and have cold water for almost one hour - but I forgot to insulate the tank, if You do that with some Armaflex the cold will last longer.

When my system is not OCed I can run it without switching on the chiller.

My current E8400 runs 9x333 @ 0.984 Vcore - this is stable even with water temp = room temp.

Thanks a TON. I'm trying to collect some info for when I build a nehalem based system in the not so near future. I would probably get a tank about the same size as yours.

My idea is that if I can eliminate some heat entering the tank, clearly, the chiller's effect will last longer since it would be on an OC'd processor, NB and video card most likely in a single loop.

I know that I can't drop the temps below ambient, but pumping in water that is 10 or more degrees below a loop w/o a rad, that would be worth it and might take a a small portion of the workload off the chiller.

At least I think so.....

[camouflage]

Thanks a TON. I'm trying to collect some info for when I build a nehalem based system in the not so near future. I would probably get a tank about the same size as yours.

My idea is that if I can eliminate some heat entering the tank, clearly, the chiller's effect will last longer since it would be on an OC'd processor, NB and video card most likely in a single loop.

I know that I can't drop the temps below ambient, but pumping in water that is 10 or more degrees below a loop w/o a rad, that would be worth it and might take a a small portion of the workload off the chiller.

At least I think so.....

As I said - best is here to insulate the tank itself with some Armaflex - so it will keep the cold much longer if You shut off the chiller and it helps to get better temps with less chiller runtime periods if You run the chiller.