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- Sep 2, 2002
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- Enfield CT
I apologize in advance if this topic has already been discussed. I tried searching for a solution to my problem but the search function appears to not work on my machine leaving me forced to create a new topic.
I am in the process of assembling a water cooled system, utilizing a Via Aqua 1300 pump. My original plan was to include the pump, rad and res in a seperate box placed on top of or right below my computer, with the tubes for the waterblock leading down to the back of the computer. The problem that I am having is that due to space constraints in my room, my computer is forced to be right next to my monitor, an expensive 22" Mitsubishi tube, and the close proximity of the monitor to the pump is making the picture go spastic. I was leak-testing the cooler on the floor, 2 feet directly below the monitor, and there is still slight flickering of the display, but placing the box with the pump anywhere close to where I was planing on placing it makes it within one foot of the monitor and makes the screen shake and flicker horribly, and makes the colors shift. I am worried that placing the pump where I want it to be will destroy my monitor in a short amount of time. On the other hand, if I leave the box on the floor then my head pressure will be killed by the lenght of the hoses, and the rad will get quickly clogged with dust and cat fur, in two days running for the leak test it collected an amazing amount of gunk. The only solution I can think of is to somehow get some sort of sheilding for the pump. I looked online, and there is magnetic sheilding for speakers used in home theatre, but it is expensive. I have tried experimenting with placing steel sheets between the pump and the monitor, and this has no effect. I am all out of ideas for what to do, and was hoping that if anyone here has experienced this problem before that they would tell me what they did to solve it. Thanks in advance.
I am in the process of assembling a water cooled system, utilizing a Via Aqua 1300 pump. My original plan was to include the pump, rad and res in a seperate box placed on top of or right below my computer, with the tubes for the waterblock leading down to the back of the computer. The problem that I am having is that due to space constraints in my room, my computer is forced to be right next to my monitor, an expensive 22" Mitsubishi tube, and the close proximity of the monitor to the pump is making the picture go spastic. I was leak-testing the cooler on the floor, 2 feet directly below the monitor, and there is still slight flickering of the display, but placing the box with the pump anywhere close to where I was planing on placing it makes it within one foot of the monitor and makes the screen shake and flicker horribly, and makes the colors shift. I am worried that placing the pump where I want it to be will destroy my monitor in a short amount of time. On the other hand, if I leave the box on the floor then my head pressure will be killed by the lenght of the hoses, and the rad will get quickly clogged with dust and cat fur, in two days running for the leak test it collected an amazing amount of gunk. The only solution I can think of is to somehow get some sort of sheilding for the pump. I looked online, and there is magnetic sheilding for speakers used in home theatre, but it is expensive. I have tried experimenting with placing steel sheets between the pump and the monitor, and this has no effect. I am all out of ideas for what to do, and was hoping that if anyone here has experienced this problem before that they would tell me what they did to solve it. Thanks in advance.