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James McGee

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Santa arrived yesterday, he drove a Fed Ex truck. All my goodies from Danger Den showed up and did I have fun unpacking em. Started putting things together in the afternoon and finished it up today with the purchase of a new 120 mm fan for the rad from a local computer store.

My case is to small to hold all the goodies, so I built it as an external system, which is good cause now it can go to the next system... ah yes, there is always a next isn't there....(G)

The heart of the beast is an Eheim 1250 pump drawing its liquid from a nice acryllic res through 1/2" clear lines and pumping it into a heater rad where the 120 mm fan sucks air through the core and then sends the cooled liquid to the cpu block, in this case a Maze 4. When all the lines, the block, the pump and the rad, and res are full it holds just a little over 1/2 gallon of liquid.

So far temps are looking good. It has been running now for a little over 3 hours folding at almost 100% and the temp shows 30C from the Asus probe. I tried a round of BattleField 1942 and the temp never went higher than 34C, which is a 4 to 5C improvement over my old system.

I think I am gona like it....thanks Santa...
 
Sounds like a nice setup there.


It holds 1/2 a gallon! :eek: I have filled mine 2 times and still have more than 1/2 a gallon left in the jug! :eek:
 
altec said:
Sounds like a nice setup there.


It holds 1/2 a gallon! :eek: I have filled mine 2 times and still have more than 1/2 a gallon left in the jug! :eek:

I have a good size res and extra lines as it is an External system, the line from res to block is about 8 feet, and of course another 8 feet back to res. Holds a lot....(G)
 
LOL @ santa... we're having a heatwave here. :D

Nice setup, altough you could have gotten a slightly better block (like the WW). Maybe you could have mounted the whole thing inside your case if you'd foregone the not-so-useful reservoir and implemented a T-line instead. :)
 
ya maybe

FIZZ3 said:
LOL @ santa... we're having a heatwave here. :D

Nice setup, altough you could have gotten a slightly better block (like the WW). Maybe you could have mounted the whole thing inside your case if you'd foregone the not-so-useful reservoir and implemented a T-line instead. :)

I thought about a WW, but they are a bit pricey and you couldn't get one without quite a wait at that time so I used the Maze 4. I may change later, but for the moment the Maze is doing a some what decent job. The machine is buzy folding at close to 100% cpu usage at the moment while I am typing this and the temp probe show 29C-30C.

And no, the whole thing would not go in my case, it is a small case and there is really no room for a pump and rad without dropping a few other things out, like a hard drive and video card... Next time I will buy a larger case maybe, but actually i won't have to as I now have an external water cooling system that can move easly from one computer to another. As for the "usless" reservoir, what can I say, I have a thing for acrylic boxes with swirling green water...
 
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James McGee said:


I thought about a WW, but they are a bit pricey and you couldn't get one without quite a wait at that time so I used the Maze 4. I may change later, but for the moment the Maze is doing a some what decent job. The machine is buzy folding at close to 100% cpu usage at the moment while I am typing this and the temp probe show 29C-30C.

And no, the whole thing would not go in my case, it is a small case and there is really no room for a pump and rad without dropping a few other things out, like a hard drive and video card... Next time I will buy a larger case maybe, but actually i won't have to as I now have an external water cooling system that can move easly from one computer to another. As for the "usless" reservoir, what can I say, I have a thing for acrylic boxes with swirling green water...

Hehe did I forget to mention that your setup is quite nice anyway? ;) Have fun with it!
 
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FIZZ3 said:


Hehe did I forget to mention that your setup is quite nice anyway? ;) Have fun with it!

Why thank you I am having a lot of fun learning about computers and putting them together... one thing I have learned already is how much more there is to learn....(G)
 
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