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