H2o Mod

Driver 7 · Nov 14, 2003, 03:24 AM

I have finished my first mod. Which would explain why I have not been here for the last 5 days. (just incase anyone was wondering) I had gone out last week and bought a bigger radiator, a more powerfull water pump and a waterblock for the North Bridge. Only problem was my case was already a little full. So I went out and bought a plane jane server case. Took it home and put it under the knife. The back became what is now the bottom. So it stands straight up. What was the bottom I cut out and added a window. Then I cut holes for fans. 1 in each side. 2 in the back where I mounted the rads. I attached the pumps outside the case on the rear. So now I have over 50% of the water and components out of my case and into it's own.
since I had 2 pumps and 2 rads I now basically have 2 seperate kits. The 1st pump flows to the video Card, then the old rad and back to the pump. The New pump flows to the northbridge, then CPU, Then Reservoir, then new rad and back to the pump.
Also all last summer I had half the air from my Air Conditioner into my case. Now that summer's over I moved the piping so it's bringing in cold air from outside. I went to home depo and purchased a medium size fan for pushing air through home ventalation and heating systems and installed that aswell to bring in even more cool air. since I had all that cool air to play with I cut 1 more fan hole in the side of the case and have all of that cold air pumping straight into the water case. I havent really had time to get temps yet but I'm homing this will hwlp me to gather up a few more Onions. But even If it dosent. It looks deadly. It was deffinatley a fun project for my first mod. I dont think I will be doing another to soon though.

p0rChM0nK3y · Nov 14, 2003, 04:21 AM

I think you should find a better Avatar.

**MIG-31** · Nov 14, 2003, 04:24 AM

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Originally posted by Driver 7
I have finished my first mod. Which would explain why I have not been here for the last 5 days. (just incase anyone was wondering) I had gone out last week and bought a bigger radiator, a more powerfull water pump and a waterblock for the North Bridge. Only problem was my case was already a little full. So I went out and bought a plane jane server case. Took it home and put it under the knife. The back became what is now the bottom. So it stands straight up. What was the bottom I cut out and added a window. Then I cut holes for fans. 1 in each side. 2 in the back where I mounted the rads. I attached the pumps outside the case on the rear. So now I have over 50% of the water and components out of my case and into it's own.
since I had 2 pumps and 2 rads I now basically have 2 seperate kits. The 1st pump flows to the video Card, then the old rad and back to the pump. The New pump flows to the northbridge, then CPU, Then Reservoir, then new rad and back to the pump.
Also all last summer I had half the air from my Air Conditioner into my case. Now that summer's over I moved the piping so it's bringing in cold air from outside. I went to home depo and purchased a medium size fan for pushing air through home ventalation and heating systems and installed that aswell to bring in even more cool air. since I had all that cool air to play with I cut 1 more fan hole in the side of the case and have all of that cold air pumping straight into the water case. I havent really had time to get temps yet but I'm homing this will hwlp me to gather up a few more Onions. But even If it dosent. It looks deadly. It was deffinatley a fun project for my first mod. I dont think I will be doing another to soon though.

sounds like another job done.a few pics if you will be better to convert the words for a better insight to what you have done.

Driver 7 · Nov 14, 2003, 05:34 AM

Basically I was nat real happy with the temps I was getting with water cooling. Temps were allright but I could not get a performance gain anywhere. I figured if I was gonna find any more speed from this system I would need more juice and less heat.
Before I had my small swiftech rad mounted in the rear of my case with 2 fans. 1 on either side of the rad blowing out from the inside of the case which meant I was cooling the water with the warm air from inside my case. Which did not really make much sence to me.
The basic princeable is to have a spot where I can put cool air and pump it through my rads so that the water will get cooler. to help I mounted the water pumps on the outside as they get somewhat warm. The rads were installed on the rear of the case. The old rad has 1 80mm fan infront if it and 1 behind it , both blowing from inside out. And the new rad which is much larger has 4 120mm silent fans. 2 infront and 2 behind also blowing from from the inside out. I added three intake fans to the side of the case 1 of which is blowing quite cool air in. I added a window and droped the reservoir into the case and some led's.
I'm not real good at explaining shit johny. Much better at answering direct questions.

**MIG-31** · Nov 14, 2003, 05:48 AM

my way of explaining things can a little odd also.thanx

jjmd · Nov 14, 2003, 06:18 AM

you should have taken your self to the store and just bought a small freezer and put your computer case inside of it. Run it at say 38 deg. You can pick one up at walmart for under 100bucks.

Then you would be done with cooling!!!!!!

**MIG-31** · Nov 14, 2003, 06:28 AM

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Originally posted by jjmd
you should have taken your self to the store and just bought a small freezer and put your computer case inside of it. Run it at say 38 deg. You can pick one up at walmart for under 100bucks.

Then you would be done with cooling!!!!!!

so if he switched of the rig wouldn't it freeze!

Driver 7 · Nov 14, 2003, 06:28 AM

I would but I dont want a freezer in my livingroom or Icicles on my cpu. Might be a bit to cold. Becides I kinda like the looks of this thing. My cpu temp seems to be 1° cooler and my GPU is down 2°. Now I need some cold weather again. It's almost warm here again. Either that or some heat so I crank the a/c up again.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Nov 14, 2003, 10:14 AM

could allway use mineral oil .....

Driver 7 · Nov 14, 2003, 11:36 AM

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Originally posted by The_Neon_Cowboy
could allway use mineral oil .....

Tell me more. I just woke up man. Are you serious or are you being silly. Sounds messy either way.

scobywhru · Nov 14, 2003, 12:37 PM

you can actually just make a tank and put your computer minus HDs and other drives in mineral oil and then just freeze it that way, people have used mineral oil as a base for there Dry ice cooling and some LN2 stuff

Driver 7 · Nov 15, 2003, 02:16 AM

I dont think I would like that to much. I would like to find a decent water cooler.