First off: If there is a similar project and I missed it please point my thick headed self to it. Also I have posted this on other forums and just get cold stares
The general set up I am considering water cooling is an A64 FX-53 water cooled with a Danger Den RBX CPU block, a BFG 6800 gt cooled with a Maze4-1GPU with an 80W Peltier. I do plan on upgrading the mobo and graphics when an nforce4 motherboard comes out with dual PCIe graphic slots… *drools SLI* So I will in the end add another 80W peltier cooled GPU in the loop. The tubing will be ½” ID Tygon and as far as the reservoir goes just something to fill and bleed the system. What I do need help to decide on is a decent radiator. What’s the problem? Well I am a quiet freak so I want to know if you all think there is a radiator out there efficient enough to pull the heat out of this system with out delta screamers on it.
My case is a Coolermaster ATC 111 B (a black aluminum case), this case only has dual 80mm fans on the front for intakes, so the natural choice would be something like a Black Ice MicroII… but I seriously doubt its ability to cool the system I’m planning to put behind it. So I will be mounting the radiator externally and am debating between a Black Ice XtremeII and a ThermoChill HE120.3. I am considering these two over a heater core because of the looks of an external mount. So what do you all think of these two?
O and I am considering Panaflo M1 (medium volume) 120mm fans put on a rheostat of some sort to quiet them down when the system idles. I would go with something like the Panaflo L1 but that low of an air flow might be a problem, but not sure. Plus performance-pcs.com has the Panaflo M1s for $6.95 each, hard to beat that. Any other fans that can push a decent amount of air flow with out much noise?
Lastly, the choice of the pump. Once again my case which I love to hate, becomes a problem. I would like to mount the pump in the front base of the case in the 3.5 bay area. With out some undesired modding to the case I am limited to the width of the Eheim 1048. I have heard that Eheim pumps are great because they do not produce much noise, which is something I really want this system to be... QUIET. The pump would have to pump through the CPU and two gpu blocks and then up to the top of the case to the radiator. So about two feet or 60-ish cm vertical plus the length of tubing it requires to go from one block to another. Any thoughts in this department?
Well that’s about the end of my list of thoughts on what I could use some help on. Any other ideas or thoughts added to this would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and any effort on helping me with this!
Peace,
Tan
Added:
Well it has be brought to my attention that I will need a shorter GPU block if I want to peltier cool a SLI solution because of the space between the two slots.
Ala numbers from formfactor.org and converting all the numbers to millimeters I find the block with a TEC and a cold plate to be 42.77mm (not including foam on the back of the card).
With out the TEC and plate the block alone is 31.75mm.
Using the measurements of ATX standards of PCI to AGP the distance is 17.5006mm. Considering from what I have seen to be the usual there is a PCIe 1x between dual PCI 16x so... lemme do the multiplication of 2 x 17.5006... crap 35.0012mm of room between the cards. That is with out considering the height of neither the gpu nor the foam on the back.
Maybe if I bend the cards at an angle.....
A second thought is that I will only need one GPU block to be this specific height, the card in the first or top slot. The second one could spill over into the left over PCI slots for all I care So I may still be able to buy the current DD Maze 4 TEC for the current set up and then push it to the second graphics card when I get SLI.
The general set up I am considering water cooling is an A64 FX-53 water cooled with a Danger Den RBX CPU block, a BFG 6800 gt cooled with a Maze4-1GPU with an 80W Peltier. I do plan on upgrading the mobo and graphics when an nforce4 motherboard comes out with dual PCIe graphic slots… *drools SLI* So I will in the end add another 80W peltier cooled GPU in the loop. The tubing will be ½” ID Tygon and as far as the reservoir goes just something to fill and bleed the system. What I do need help to decide on is a decent radiator. What’s the problem? Well I am a quiet freak so I want to know if you all think there is a radiator out there efficient enough to pull the heat out of this system with out delta screamers on it.
My case is a Coolermaster ATC 111 B (a black aluminum case), this case only has dual 80mm fans on the front for intakes, so the natural choice would be something like a Black Ice MicroII… but I seriously doubt its ability to cool the system I’m planning to put behind it. So I will be mounting the radiator externally and am debating between a Black Ice XtremeII and a ThermoChill HE120.3. I am considering these two over a heater core because of the looks of an external mount. So what do you all think of these two?
O and I am considering Panaflo M1 (medium volume) 120mm fans put on a rheostat of some sort to quiet them down when the system idles. I would go with something like the Panaflo L1 but that low of an air flow might be a problem, but not sure. Plus performance-pcs.com has the Panaflo M1s for $6.95 each, hard to beat that. Any other fans that can push a decent amount of air flow with out much noise?
Lastly, the choice of the pump. Once again my case which I love to hate, becomes a problem. I would like to mount the pump in the front base of the case in the 3.5 bay area. With out some undesired modding to the case I am limited to the width of the Eheim 1048. I have heard that Eheim pumps are great because they do not produce much noise, which is something I really want this system to be... QUIET. The pump would have to pump through the CPU and two gpu blocks and then up to the top of the case to the radiator. So about two feet or 60-ish cm vertical plus the length of tubing it requires to go from one block to another. Any thoughts in this department?
Well that’s about the end of my list of thoughts on what I could use some help on. Any other ideas or thoughts added to this would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and any effort on helping me with this!
Peace,
Tan
Added:
Well it has be brought to my attention that I will need a shorter GPU block if I want to peltier cool a SLI solution because of the space between the two slots.
Ala numbers from formfactor.org and converting all the numbers to millimeters I find the block with a TEC and a cold plate to be 42.77mm (not including foam on the back of the card).
With out the TEC and plate the block alone is 31.75mm.
Using the measurements of ATX standards of PCI to AGP the distance is 17.5006mm. Considering from what I have seen to be the usual there is a PCIe 1x between dual PCI 16x so... lemme do the multiplication of 2 x 17.5006... crap 35.0012mm of room between the cards. That is with out considering the height of neither the gpu nor the foam on the back.
Maybe if I bend the cards at an angle.....
A second thought is that I will only need one GPU block to be this specific height, the card in the first or top slot. The second one could spill over into the left over PCI slots for all I care So I may still be able to buy the current DD Maze 4 TEC for the current set up and then push it to the second graphics card when I get SLI.