New water setup

Driver 7 · Oct 23, 2003, 12:14 AM

I finally got my innovatek Video Card Cooler and new resevoir. Installed it all last night. It looks alot more "extreme" now.

Allready a huge up in my overclock's. So far I have had my Video card's memory up to 975 with the core at 465. All benches ran flawlesly. I think there is lots of room left to play.

WildChild · Oct 23, 2003, 12:56 AM

looks cool

~~DriveEuro~~ · Oct 23, 2003, 02:51 AM

Looks cool, but look how his computer is. HAHAHA, he can't even close the door.

~~Optimummind~~ · Oct 23, 2003, 03:35 AM

Nice...but so messy!!

Driver 7 · Oct 23, 2003, 03:50 AM

Ya I guess it does look messy in those pics. Looking at it here now it's accually really tidy. I'm hella anal and nit picky with it. Always vaccuming and dusting it.
I think next I am going to add the Swiftech Peltier that loops and cools just the water. That will be the cherry on top.

jjmd · Oct 27, 2003, 01:36 PM

Nice Job Driver, who cares what it looks like as long as it performs.

scobywhru · Oct 28, 2003, 04:15 AM

I don't think that pelltier would work well you would need to get another waterblock and then aircool the peltier with a huge fan or run a second watercooling loop for the peltier and then you would need a bigger peltier to help deal with the heat from the pump in the first loop, nice setup though looks pretty clean better then mine but You have a slightly roomier case

Driver 7 · Oct 28, 2003, 11:35 AM

My Idea is to have a peltier and a cold plate on a resivoir so it is not cooling anything but the water. then I can mount the resivoir on the back of the case outside. I would probally have to have is so it will only come on when the water get's warmer than say 21 degrees or the water would probally get to cold and then I would have condensation on my tubes.

toddsmack2k · Oct 29, 2003, 05:19 PM

To the extreme man, nice!

scobywhru · Oct 29, 2003, 08:48 PM

the kind of peltier you would need would be fairly large, and you would need a dedicated PSU for it, otherwise it would adversely affect the Overclock from unstable voltages, but you probably wouldn't need a cold plate and you could just submerge an old Heatsink in it and then put another Heasink on the other side with the peltier in the middle and a fan on the outer one, but if you watercooled the peltier you get better cooling, or you could just go and buy a watercooler and use that to chill the water, there not that expensive like 150 USD and that may end up costing you less then a peltier, because of the PSU otherwise it may not be powerful enough to really do much...

Besides the best thing about watercooling is how quiet the computer gets

Driver 7 · Oct 29, 2003, 11:53 PM

Your full of good H2O tips eh man. A water cooler's a wicked Idea. I busted my last pelt and was sorta turned off of doing it again.

scobywhru · Oct 30, 2003, 12:48 AM

Yeah I've tried to keep up on all the cool little ideas and suich for watercooling actually looked into it 6 months before I set up my own, so I learned a few little tricks