My brand new watercooling..!

**Asmoday** · Nov 3, 2003, 09:34 PM

Here's some pictures of my custom watercooling setup...

The gpu-waterblock...

the cpu and nb waterblocks..

and the radiator and pump...

The waterblocks is made by a guy in my town...and he is kindly enough letting me do some testing for him..

i'm idling right now @32C not too bad...and under maximum load just above 40C..

tek · Nov 3, 2003, 09:41 PM

That looks great man! Tell me how far your able to push the GPU.

**Asmoday** · Nov 3, 2003, 09:45 PM

I'll do some testing tomorrow....got to get some sleep now....it's 3:47:AM here right now...

**Asmoday** · Nov 4, 2003, 06:07 PM

I've done some testing now...and i was able to push the gpu to 479mhz...about 25mhz gain over stock cooling !! not to bad..

and i also got me a score over 20k in 3dmark2k1..

.. 20072 ...but i haven't pushed my memory very far just yet...gotta get me some of those ramsinks..

The_Neon_Cowboy · Nov 4, 2003, 06:26 PM

weird ... i get 28C and 32 under full load on air with my 2500+
shouldn't watter be cooler?

you might add a resavor

**Asmoday** · Nov 4, 2003, 06:33 PM

What mobo do you have? and what bios revision?...i think that your tempreadings are a bit off...on my nf7-s i use the latest bios(1.9) and gets these temps ,i used to get almost 10C lower with one of the older bioses....and according to the people on abitforums this is the most accurate temps...
And i really doubt that anyone can get a(true) fulload temp of 32C on air,unless your ambient temp is like14-15C
Btw what have you clocked your 2500@ and what voltage?

Logla · Nov 4, 2003, 06:37 PM

My CPU idles at 19c and hits 34c full load. Its a P4 so it runs nice and cool anyway. I thought I had a problem with my BIOS so I got a new board - DFI LAN Party Pro875 and the temps were the same as the old board. My PC is cooled on air with an ambient temp of about 26-27c. I use a coolermaster heatpipe cooler with AS3 and it is superb. Looking forward to watercooling to see how low I can get it.

**Asmoday** · Nov 4, 2003, 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by Logla
My CPU idles at 19c and hits 34c full load. Its a P4 so it runs nice and cool anyway. I thought I had a problem with my BIOS so I got a new board - DFI LAN Party Pro875 and the temps were the same as the old board. My PC is cooled on air with an ambient temp of about 26-27c. I use a coolermaster heatpipe cooler with AS3 and it is superb. Looking forward to watercooling to see how low I can get it.

I thought that it would be physical impossible to get a cpu temp lower than your ambient temp..unless your on a prommie or vappochill...

~~Optimummind~~ · Nov 4, 2003, 07:17 PM

Cartman, although the watercooling setup does look pretty good (for a custom, amateur job), the temperature range of your CPU is below average compared to professional watercooling companies' offering. I have the Koolance Exos system and my idle is at 26-29 C and my load is 31-34 C. These temperatures are based on an overclock of my CPU from 2.4B to 2.70GHz. If I turn on the AC, the idle and load goes really low with the load not even surpassing 30 C.

You might not be getting good cooling because those water hoses are too thick and the pump is not strong enough. Of course, the copper/aluminum base might not be very efficient too.

**Asmoday** · Nov 4, 2003, 07:32 PM

I don't think that my pump is to week(700l/h)...but maybe i my cpublock isn't making perfect contact with the core..due to it's only four wingnuts that i have had to screw down on 'feeling' only...and the temps are just about same as i had with my swiftech 5000 water-block...oh well..i never said that my temps were amazing...

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Optimummind, bare in mind that you're using a p4 and i have barton 2500 @ 217x11 and 1.85v...they tend to get a tad hotter than the p4 don't they?...could i ask where you're doing your tempreadings? from the bios or from the koolance display?I used to have a Koolance myself a while back and the temps from the koolance diod were several degrees lower than the bios readings...

~~Optimummind~~ · Nov 4, 2003, 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by Cartman
I don't think that my pump is to week(700l/h)...but maybe i my cpublock isn't making perfect contact with the core..due to it's only four wingnuts that i have had to screw down on 'feeling' only...and the temps are just about same as i had with my swiftech 5000 water-block...oh well..i never said that my temps were amazing... ...
Optimummind, bare in mind that you're using a p4 and i have barton 2500 @ 217x11 and 1.85v...they tend to get a tad hotter than the p4 don't they?...could i ask where you're doing your tempreadings? from the bios or from the koolance display?I used to have a Koolance myself a while back and the temps from the koolance diod were several degrees lower than the bios readings...

Whoops, I overlooked the fact that you were running an AMD CPU, not Intel. As for AMD, I don't know what a normal temperature is for that CPU so my previous statement about the "abnormal" CPU temp is void.

As for my setup, I'm using the Koolance diode to give you my temperatures. As for the BIOS on, it's buggy cuz it says my CPU temp is at 75 C at the time!!

So, until Soyo fixes that bug with the next revision, I won't know that value.