watercool ARC1880IX-12

[zalbard]

mine is not as shiny, i didnt know you could have them plated/buffed. i still like it though copper HS might be temporary. we will see how temps do.

Gotta watercool them all!
Good job!
And post the temps.

[Computurd]

well well well....as i stand back and take these pics i realize what a monster this has become!
originally just wanted to watercool my areca outta sheer boredom. then i looked around and realized i had amassed all this gear so why not use it?
so i have a separate loop for the GPU, they can be pulled anytime. they are on the honda radiator.

Then i have a hybrid loop. two loops sharing one res that sets on the desk. this is to share overflow cooling capacity from the lesser loop. the lesser loop being a bip dual rad with ram/fullboard block/and areca on it.
the other 'loop' on that is just the cpu and two 320 swiftech rads, which are down under the desk. i can pull the cpu anytime, it is set up so that it can be pulled separately as well.

in the end it looks like on big jumbled mess, but that is fine. this is a benching rig FWIW. holds the four core PCMark Vantage world record...and somewhat of a scientists mad experiment look to it i guess.
not gonna win much in the looks department, but for sheer cooling power she is a mofo i bet once i fire up the rig.
doing 24 loop test right now so the wiring hasnt been cleaned up, stuff still hanging everywhere. but tbh, it wont look much better when done

[shazza]

You definitely get points for using everything! Can't wait to see how it performs.

[NaeKuh]

been there, and done that... lol.

told ya, its going to look like that when ur done.

ahhh... feels like im walking down memory lane.

[Dr.Joe]

To this, there is only one proper response...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...ode_potentials

i guess you learned how to read?

[Computurd]

well all of that aside...finally the rig is back together and running fine. tbh i couldnt be happier i mean seriously this came out very very well. got all 8 fans on the 2 swiftech/bip and the 4 fans on the honda (lol) all running on a curve on the TBalancer and MiniNG, it has never been quieter! and temps...boy temps are way better cpu is idling @ 30-32 which is awesome, considering fans are at 35-40 percent. after three hours and here is the results with a small fan on the expander @ 40 percent (almost inaudible) and the waterblock of course, my god this areca has never been happier!

[tiro_uspsss]

so u went from....75C(?) to 41C?! nice!

[Computurd]

actually the difference is much much more than that! look at the CPU, that is the one with the waterblock..from 86 to 30, and that is the more important one by far. and the expander is the controller temp, went from 70ish to 41 with a copper HS and a small fan. actually it can go to 35 if i put the fan at 100 percent.

before


after

[tiro_uspsss]

actually the difference is much much more than that! look at the CPU, that is the one with the waterblock..from 86 to 30, and that is the more important one by far. and the expander is the controller temp, went from 70ish to 41 with a copper HS and a small fan. actually it can go to 35 if i put the fan at 100 percent.

before


after

very VERY nice!

I wonder what temps one would get if u mod-mounted a TR HR05 chipset cooler to these RAID cards (they have 2 heatpipes)

edit: u should share the results with ARECA *esp the one with the copper cooler - they should definitely change out their alu hs' for copper ones

[Computurd]

edit: u should share the results with ARECA *esp the one with the copper cooler - they should definitely change out their alu hs' for copper ones

yea they definitely should. the copper HS is far smaller too! i dunno how worried they are about it though, these things are designed to be in server racks with big fans blasting! i am very pleased with the performance though

can believe how much better these temps are seriously. the pic with the 86 is IDLE. the pic with 30 is when i am doing a backup with Acronis, so definitely under load. with raidsets with parity i am sure this thing could get cooking over 100C. i have seen as high as 95 before.

[Waterlogged]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...ode_potentials

i guess you learned how to read?

Why are they always........?

Guess you never heard of "nobility of metals" huh? Do yourself a favor and read this (Link), and educate yourself a bit please. The closer 2 metals are, the less of a problem there will be with corrosion...and, if you look at the chart, nickel and copper are bosom buddies. Another interesting tidbit you might want to read is here (Link).