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the_poche
07-13-03, 09:07 PM
For the last few months my CPU was cooled by a cheap heatsink due to an incident with my first watercooling setup( The waterblock leaked on the CPU, resulting in a dead Palamino 1600+ and MSI SIS 745)

But now I'm back! I bought a drill press and some copper and carved myself a nice waterblock.

http://www.lapalme.ca/oc/caseless/wblock.jpg

The WB is hooked up to Via Aqua 1300 and a heater core I bought at a scrap yard, all sitting in a rad box, cooled by a 160mm by 2inche thick giant fan.

http://www.lapalme.ca/oc/caseless/rad1.jpg


This is presently used on my new setup. An Abit NF7-S rev2.0, TBredB 1700+ JUIHB and my old trusty Samsung RAM PC2700.

So far, the highest temperature I've seen, is 36C, at 2200 MHz and 1.8Vcore , compared to low 50's with the old heatsink at 1800MHz and 1.65Vcore at around the same room temps. :cool:

Beside the 14+ degrees gain, I gained 100MHz overclock so far. I still have to play with the voltages and memory timings.

Right now I'm running 220*10, pretty good for a 1 year old stick of samsung RAM.

And for those of you who like pictures, here are some more. (http://www.lapalme.ca/oc/caseless/)
the_poche
07-13-03, 09:32 PM
I guess I forgot to post the most important picture, the whole setup.

http://www.lapalme.ca/oc/caseless/DSC00155.jpg
thorilan
07-13-03, 09:56 PM
lol is your avatar a pic of you after your comp got fried?

heavy duty looking caseframe there too btw
anvil82
07-13-03, 11:31 PM
Sheesh talk about ghetto, lol.

Why not spend a few bucks and get a decent waterblock so it doesn't leak again?
tio
07-14-03, 03:33 PM
I like his case. Glad you're back, the_poche :)
WejRepus
07-14-03, 03:42 PM
Originally posted by anvil82
Why not spend a few bucks and get a decent waterblock so it doesn't leak again?

or an actual case.... but that's just me
Caeberos
07-14-03, 04:02 PM
love that case, mind if i ste... borrow the idea if i need a cheep case? :D
Soja
07-14-03, 04:03 PM
Homemade waterblocks rock :beer:
the_poche
07-14-03, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by anvil82
Sheesh talk about ghetto, lol.

Why not spend a few bucks and get a decent waterblock so it doesn't leak again?

This one won't leak, at least not more than any of the commercial one.

The one that leaked was just a box of really thin copper and the water ate through the solder in one corner.

BTW, anyone can steal, borrow or get inspired by anything there, no problem at all.