Can anyone rate the primochill Typhoon III?

[Barso]

BOXGODS any info on when the T3 faceplates will be arriving in Europe?
Thanks.

[BoxGods]

BOXGODS any info on when the T3 faceplates will be arriving in Europe?
Thanks.

I do not sorry. If any do make it to the EU it won't be many if I had to guess. At least not from this first batch of 100. I could be wrong though as I am not the one who decides what goes where.

When I do know I will be posting.

[BoxGods]

OK. I have been getting a lot of emails and PM's asking about when the face plates will be out and which resellers in the US and the EU so I called Brian from PrimoChill and this is what he told me.

The face plates will ONLY be sold at ModdersMart and PrimoChill because that is the only way he can sell them at or near the $25--$30 USD target price. There basically is just no margin for resellers on this particular product meaning that in order for them (resellers) to make a profit they would need to sell them at something like $40--$45 USD. If Brian was selling them for $15 less obviously the resellers would get pissed so he would have to raise his price to match...and the entire point in the first place was to get some killer face plates out to dress up T3's at a very reasonable price.

This is not a serious issue for North American customers obviously because the shipping is going to be like 5 bucks. I PERSONALLY do not think it will be too big a deal for EU customers either because even if the shipping is $10 + to the EU that's the same or less then you would pay if they were selling there for around $40 US...of course it will take a little longer for shipping though.

Anyway that's the official word on Face Plates.

[millertime359]

Thanks for that Geno. He plans to have them next week then?

[BoxGods]

Thanks for that Geno. He plans to have them next week then?

Yes. They have already shipped and are due about The middle of the week, depending on customs (you never know with customs =) and they will be on the sites likely a day or 2 later.

I will post when they are for sale.

[genec57]

Still having fun playing with my TIII. If I had any remaining doubts about its value they were dispelled a short while ago.
I was wondering just what real impact the flow had on my system so I reduced the power on my pump to one and let it run for several munutes - no change in idle temps at all.

Idle temps don't mean squat, right? So I cranked it up to full load for 12 minutes and the load temps might have increased 1c, if that. Considering my OC @ 4410 i find that result to be just short of amazing unless I somehow am missing something obvious. Oh yes, ambient is steady for the last several days.

[BoxGods]

Still having fun playing with my TIII. If I had any remaining doubts about its value they were dispelled a short while ago.
I was wondering just what real impact the flow had on my system so I reduced the power on my pump to one and let it run for several munutes - no change in idle temps at all.

Idle temps don't mean squat, right? So I cranked it up to full load for 12 minutes and the load temps might have increased 1c, if that. Considering my OC @ 4410 i find that result to be just short of amazing unless I somehow am missing something obvious. Oh yes, ambient is steady for the last several days.

Yeah, I was wondering how long it would be before somebody thought of this =)

All the comments on whether or not the extra flow is helpful or not for temps are dependent on how you set up the loops and which blocks is true enough, but one of the first tests I did was to dial my vario down to 3 to see what happened. The loops get quieter and the pump is not working as hard. For me it is like buying a fast car...yeah the speed limit may be 65 but sometimes having that extra pedal comes in handy...

As far as I know your the first one to dial your pump down and post about it. Props for some free thinking Sir

[genec57]

Quiet is probably as important as cool to me. Past three the vario becomes audible. At three or under practically silent so it was an obvious test for me. I am running at three now not that I think it really needs it but because I feel like I should. As I get more comfortable I will probably go for two.
Thanks,
Gene

[BoxGods]

The only thing sweeter then winning yourself is when a good friend wins.

Congratulations to Brian "Boddaker" Carter for winning this years PAX with Neptune's Trident. First prize is the cover of CPU magazine, $1,500 in cash, an i7 965, a GTX 275 (not sure which brand), 6 GB of Patriot memory, and some other odds and ends I can't remember. Not a bad haul at all =)

Next up is the ION contest...likely not my best decision ever to accept the invitation for that one

[BoxGods]

Quiet is probably as important as cool to me. Past three the vario becomes audible. At three or under practically silent so it was an obvious test for me. I am running at three now not that I think it really needs it but because I feel like I should. As I get more comfortable I will probably go for two.
Thanks,
Gene

Hey...how did you know my name?

[century child]

Just wanted to post here again with an update to my previous posts detailing my experiences. The air has pretty much worked its way out of my loop now but the PC Pure black coolant has separated and has now become crystal clear. That probably means I have a black sludge deposit in either my CPU cooler, radiators, or both. I get to tear open my week old loop and clean out the rads and blocks. I am not a happy camper.

Overall my experience with the res itself has been very positive though and I am very happy with it.

[BoxGods]

Well thankfully I don't have anything to do with the dye stuff...so glad you like the T3 =)

Sorry you have to flush your loop though just the same.

[millertime359]

That sucks dude, I would just get some black tubing so you can still have the black look, and switch over to the distilled water and silver now. Getting the black faceplate will help to break up all the clear liquid too. I hope.

Hopefully it is all in your CPU block, but I would hook your rad up to the kitchen faucet and flush it for a while with some hot water to make certain nothing got in there.

[lexusxxx]

Greetings! While mine T3 in a way, I would like to consult concerning distribution of water blocks and a radiator on contours.

hardware:
Typhoon III
Swiftech MCP655™ Series 12 VDC Water Pumps
D-Tek FuZion v2
Swiftech MCW-NBMAX
3* EK-FC285 GTX PCB Rev.2 SLI - Nickel/Acetal
Watercool MO-RA 2 radiator
PrimoFlex Pro LRT Black Tubing -1/2in. ID X 3/4in. OD

variant №1
T3 subloop 1: MORA-2 rad
T3 subloop 2: FuZion v2, MCW-NBMAX, parallel 3* EK-FC285

variant №2
T3 subloop 1: FuZion v2, MCW-NBMAX, MORA-2 rad
T3 subloop 2: series 3* EK-FC285

variant №3
T3 subloop 1: FuZion v2, MORA-2 rad
T3 subloop 2: MCW-NBMAX, series 3* EK-FC285

what variant is better?

Tanks guys.

[millertime359]

I'm running my rad on its on loop and temps are fine, but i have a small loop.

I would probably try variant 3 with the GPUs in parallel and see how things look.

[century child]

That sucks dude, I would just get some black tubing so you can still have the black look, and switch over to the distilled water and silver now. Getting the black faceplate will help to break up all the clear liquid too. I hope.

Hopefully it is all in your CPU block, but I would hook your rad up to the kitchen faucet and flush it for a while with some hot water to make certain nothing got in there.

Yeah, I'm really not looking forward to tearing everything apart after i got it just like I wanted it. Oh well, it does have a couple of plus sides. A local shop sent a batch of HK3.0's out to have them nickle plated and they will be available in a couple days and a European shop finally started selling PT Nuke (still no kill coils though unfortunately). I already have black and red tubing and originally intended to use uncolored fluid but the PC Ice unfortunately arrived pre-mixed. I ordered it from a nieghboring country so returning it would have been prohibitively expensive so I just decided to use it. I have now ordered PT Nuke and will be using it after draining and cleaning and installing my new nickle plated HK3.0

[millertime359]

Yeah, I'm really not looking forward to tearing everything apart after i got it just like I wanted it. Oh well, it does have a couple of plus sides. A local shop sent a batch of HK3.0's out to have them nickle plated and they will be available in a couple days and a European shop finally started selling PT Nuke (still no kill coils though unfortunately). I already have black and red tubing and originally intended to use uncolored fluid but the PC Ice unfortunately arrived pre-mixed. I ordered it from a nieghboring country so returning it would have been prohibitively expensive so I just decided to use it. I have now ordered PT Nuke and will be using it after draining and cleaning and installing my new nickle plated HK3.0

There you go. Gives you the perfect excuse. Yea it will suck to clean it all up.

I had seen someone selling their nickel plated HK here and was thinking hard. I like by black top though. It goes with my subtle theme.

[adpr_02]

Hey, can someone tell me whether a Typhoon 3 would help my temperatures?

Right now I have 2x MCR320, 1x MCR120 and an Swiftech GTZ cpu block. The thing is that I run my pump at setting 2, so I don't know if I'm getting too low of a flow. I'm looking at very roughly what flow rate I'd get through the loop with the Typhoon 3 and my pump at setting 2.

[millertime359]

Hey, can someone tell me whether a Typhoon 3 would help my temperatures?

Right now I have 2x MCR320, 1x MCR120 and an Swiftech GTZ cpu block. The thing is that I run my pump at setting 2, so I don't know if I'm getting too low of a flow. I'm looking at very roughly what flow rate I'd get through the loop with the Typhoon 3 and my pump at setting 2.

Doubt it.

Your running all that rad on a CPU only loop? I hope you got some slow fans then, that is a ton of cooling potential.

[adpr_02]

Doubt it.

Your running all that rad on a CPU only loop? I hope you got some slow fans then, that is a ton of cooling potential.

Yeah, my pc is extremely quiet. Can't wait for SSD prices to drop so that I don't have to put up with my hard drive clicking.

[millertime359]

Yeah, my pc is extremely quiet. Can't wait for SSD prices to drop so that I don't have to put up with my hard drive clicking.

If you want to see if more flow will help temps, then turn the pump all the way to level 5, but seeing you have so much cooling potential there now, I would think your peak temps don't get that high.

+1 on SSDs. I want to get one to boot Windows 7 off of.

[Utnorris]

Love my SSD's. Once you use them you cannot go back.

Back on topic, I run my vario at 3 and have not seen a difference in temp by running it at 5. However, I do use 5 to help get the last bit of air out of the loops and then turn it back down to 3.

[BoxGods]

Hey, can someone tell me whether a Typhoon 3 would help my temperatures?

Right now I have 2x MCR320, 1x MCR120 and an Swiftech GTZ cpu block. The thing is that I run my pump at setting 2, so I don't know if I'm getting too low of a flow. I'm looking at very roughly what flow rate I'd get through the loop with the Typhoon 3 and my pump at setting 2.

I actually think it might if you ran in dual loop mode because the T3 can move a lot of water on vario setting 3. The D5 is nearly silent at setting 3 and bellow in my experience. Miller time is correct about you having a LOT of cooling power there but rads typically love the extra flow.

All that being said, just don't expect HUGE temp drops. The question really is is it worth it for for 2-3 degrees and that would depend on where your temps are at now really.

[BoxGods]

I FINALLY have a few SSD's in the shop to play with for the portal sentry build and if they are quiet great, but I love how SMALL they are =)

My next work station is going to use the 15k SAS drives because they are just really fast, so I wonder how it will be going from silent to 15K drives...probably make me insane lol.

[adpr_02]

My cpu's running really toasty. I have a Q9550 @ 4ghz using 1.392V with speedstep disabled. It idles at 40C and loads at 60C with an ambient of about....25 - 28C. I cannot seem to get my temps lower than 38 or 36C. This processor is running quite a bit hotter than my q6600....

I can actually still hear my pump at setting 3, so I turn it further down. 2C would be very nice.