New rig (piccies)

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MikeTimbers

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• Jul 19, 2003

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Some new pics of my new rig. This is a K7S5A with the wire-trick to get me 16.5x133 for my 2100B at 1.85v.

The heatercore/shroud/fan

The case from the front.

The whole shebang

Little River White Water #095
Vauxhall Nova (UK Chevette) Heatercore, homemade aluminium shroud
Evercool Aluminium 120mm fan
Eheim 1250
2100B AIUHB 0302 at 2208
ECS K7S5A

 

altec

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Looks really nice. One question I have is why you took the front thing off of your Eheim 1250. I left mine on assuming that you are supposed to. Did you do it to save some space?

 

Lazlo Panaflex

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• Jul 19, 2003

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is that fan blowing air from your system throught the heatercore? If so i would switch it around and add one more fan to the setup so its a push/pull motion.

 

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Eheim was bought second-hand and came like that.
Fan is sucking air from outside. Case is quite short front-to-back and there isn't really room for a push-shroud-rad-shroud-pull combo

 

altec

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Well then, it would probably still help you to re-orient then fan to be pulling air from outside the case and blowing it through the heatercore.

 

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Why would blowing be better? I was under the impression that sucking air was better.

 

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Pulling air through the radiator is more efficient, and quieter. I experimented with both ways...pulling through the radiator actually gave me about a degree cooler in water temp.

 

JFettig

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frodo is correct, well for the most part, there has been a little debate to weather blowing or sucking is better for cooling, but the noise and the amount of air is better. You gotta be the first other person I have seen with a copper T, They are by far the best T ever, They restrict zero flow.

Your system does look very nice, and yeah, Your case looks very short. I was sitting here looking at it and wondering why the cpu is so far forward, Then I finally figured that one out I built 3 computers with that motherboard too!


lookin good,
Jon

 

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Not just one copper T!

This is a BeCooling SlitEdge with a BeCooling Pump/Res (Maxi1000) and BIX