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Ironic
09-06-01, 10:56 AM
anyone know of a supplier of water cooled power supplies.
300 or 350 watt atx should do it.

i have been searching for quite some time now, and all i can find
is one in a complete kit with case, unfortunatly it only supports a t-bird up to 1000, mine is a 1400, also they wanted the excessive price of $695 plus shipping.

tia

it would be nice to get rid of this last internal fan

Slain
09-06-01, 11:02 AM
I belive most people that want this have to go the DIY route. It's not that hard if you have watercooling experience. I sure someone on the boards could give you more detailed instructions.

Ironic
09-06-01, 11:23 AM
i just looked inside the spare psu, 2 large heatsinks

um... er ?

so has anyone know how to water cool a psu

Random Nonsense
09-06-01, 12:11 PM
hmm im not 100% sure the big silver things are heatsinks.... well in mine at least they dont appear to be attached to any electronics.....

Ironic
09-06-01, 01:59 PM
my silver things are mat black, but that is unimportant

so what i need is water cooled silver things

it would prefer copper colored but silver would be ok

:rolleyes:

Ironic
09-06-01, 03:59 PM
do you think that i could use mother board coolers in the psu ?

Crazy Jayhawk
09-06-01, 04:49 PM
Seems kind of unnecessary to me. But if you're dead set on it, you could probably therm-epoxy a couple chipset waterblocks to the big silver heatsinks inside the PSU.

Ironic
09-06-01, 05:27 PM
yea
i supose that might work, glueing watercooled things to the heatsinks should cool them enough, but what about those hot chips and transformers in the psu, wont they go pop with no fan

Ironic
09-06-01, 07:09 PM
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Morphoius
09-06-01, 07:16 PM
Maybe if you took the cover off the PSU and the sides off your case and just let air flow through?

YMAN
09-06-01, 07:16 PM
hmm im not 100% sure the big silver things are heatsinks.... well in mine at least they dont appear to be attached to any electronics.....

They are heatsinks!
Attached to the regulators!

YMAN
09-06-01, 07:18 PM
Maybe if you took the cover off the PSU and the sides off your case and just let air flow through?

I don't think there will be enough air circuation

YMAN
09-06-01, 07:20 PM
I kinda like the watterblock Idea, But the regulators will
proboably get hotter like that (unless you have a large
waterblock)

Dont forget the main transformer a watter jacket should do.
(Dont want it to melt :cool:!)