freezing water condensation question

[Zubster]

Hey, I am getting a system together with water being cooled well below ambient going through a fridge and an open resevior. I plan to insulate the tubing, but there is still the problem of sweat on the water blocks, 1 on the cpu and 1 on the gpu, I have a silicone water proofing kit for the socket and the gpu, but I still want to insulate the water blocks so I can prevent any condensation, or as much as I can, what would you suggest? some kind of spray insulation or material? and what kind of sprays are good for water proofing things like more of the mobo, and the cards below the vid card? I just wondering what you guys might use/ heard of being used, thanks!

[IFMU]

First, Welcome Aboard!!!
Next, Im not seriouslly into the below ambient temps deal, just to costly for me.
From what I have seen is that there is a foam that you wrap around the blocks, same as you do with the hoses. Just wrap it around the blocks and get it to stay and close off any chance of air being able to get to the blocks and you should be fine.
One thing to point out that you didnt say anything about. The backside of the motherboard will need to be insulated. Im not to sure what kind of temps your planning on, but if your lookin for serious sub-zero temps, I would insulate that too.
Then another area you need to be sure to insulate is under the actual CPU itself. And from what I have heard, the pin areas as well. That part Im not to sure about or even how to do correctly.
Ive seen it done in many a threads online.
Luck to yea, and once you get it all set up, write up something telling how you did it all and what you were able to get from it afterwards. Just to help out the next guy that goes into that area of the woods! LoL Might be me someday!
Luck to yeas.

IFMU

[Zubster]

Thanks for the info, I have looked into most of that already, but I guess my only question now is how would you keep condesation from the water block base, not the part on the core, but the rest of it above the cpu, from dripping water, is just water proofing the socket enough? and another problem in that question is that I have an unlocked AMD XP, so I can't really get anything on that part of the cpu :mad: , thanks for the help again IFMU, if anyone else has tried this or knows something I should know, please help! ;)

zubster

[ssjwizard]

ok one way is to seal the water block to the mother board using expanding foam. BE EXTREMLY CAREFULL! not to get alot under the block or it will force it off of the cpu core. another way is you can wrap the water block with neoprine foam and then get window insulation the strip kind that compresses and has a sticky back then run that around the base of the waterblock.

[Zubster]

ssjwizard, I will try your advise, thanks for your info!

zubster

[SkiFletch]

yeah, that spray stuff works wonders, but you only need a tiny drop of it on each side, it expands REAL well