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- Oct 4, 2004
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- Saskatoon, SK
I am interested in doing a watercooled setup for my car during the spring and I should get all my information right, right now it looks messy and ghetto looking in my trunk (attached pic) and I want to waterblock the hard drive somehow. Possibly the video card aswell, its only a gf4mx440 right now and it may stay like that because its more than sufficient.
I want to waterblock the cpu, northbridge, hard drive, sound card and video card (what about psu?)
I will use the northbridge sink of the southbridge for looks.
Eventually there will be a false floor where that cover is, it will be made of plexiglass and that sub will be sold for 2 12" Alpine Type R which will be mounted using these
Anwyays, what can be done with a watercooled setup to keep it from freezing/condensing in the trunk of my car? I wont be running any AC lines to the back to suck up any moisture (if thats even a problem with watercooled)
I will be using blue tint to the water, probably food coloring or clear water with blue LED's (depending on how my water with LED trial goes)
All that foam will be gone and in its place I will use soft rubber which you wont be able to see. The motherboard will have a seperate enclosure in the plexiglass window so you can only see the mobo + all wires and tubing running to it. The hard drive will have a seperate bay, (There will actually be 2 drives in there later, 2x200gig maxtors or WD's) and the PSU will have its own bay. Not sure what to do with the audigy bay, but I donno if I want it shown, maybe just the front panel of it if I mount it vertically. Maybe have the front fact outside of the plexiglass.
What about using antifreeze mixture in there? The last thing I want is the -40C weather we have here freezing my lines and exploding all over electrical components. I'm fairly skeptical about this idea, hopefully you guys can remove that from my head. I have 3 blue led 120mm fans that move alot of air. You can sort of see 2 of them on the cover in that pic. The 3rd I recently bought as an exhaust fan because I was having some cooling issues, using winamp vis with the windows up makes the athlon hit hot temps, when it turns off I have to uplug it entirely for 5 seconds then back in and turn on, when I get into the bios I usually see 66-67C on cpu temp so it must have been hotter than that during the 10-15seconds time between when it shuts off and when I see it. Only happened 3-4 times.
What about the radiator on the watercooled setup, does it have to be placed vertically or horizontally? Or does it even matter. If I get a water cooled setup I will use one of my 120mm fans (with ducting or something if I have to) to keep it cool, fans are fairly quite and push lots of air. I would also want the rad shown through the plexiglass.
I want to waterblock the cpu, northbridge, hard drive, sound card and video card (what about psu?)
I will use the northbridge sink of the southbridge for looks.
Eventually there will be a false floor where that cover is, it will be made of plexiglass and that sub will be sold for 2 12" Alpine Type R which will be mounted using these
Anwyays, what can be done with a watercooled setup to keep it from freezing/condensing in the trunk of my car? I wont be running any AC lines to the back to suck up any moisture (if thats even a problem with watercooled)
I will be using blue tint to the water, probably food coloring or clear water with blue LED's (depending on how my water with LED trial goes)
All that foam will be gone and in its place I will use soft rubber which you wont be able to see. The motherboard will have a seperate enclosure in the plexiglass window so you can only see the mobo + all wires and tubing running to it. The hard drive will have a seperate bay, (There will actually be 2 drives in there later, 2x200gig maxtors or WD's) and the PSU will have its own bay. Not sure what to do with the audigy bay, but I donno if I want it shown, maybe just the front panel of it if I mount it vertically. Maybe have the front fact outside of the plexiglass.
What about using antifreeze mixture in there? The last thing I want is the -40C weather we have here freezing my lines and exploding all over electrical components. I'm fairly skeptical about this idea, hopefully you guys can remove that from my head. I have 3 blue led 120mm fans that move alot of air. You can sort of see 2 of them on the cover in that pic. The 3rd I recently bought as an exhaust fan because I was having some cooling issues, using winamp vis with the windows up makes the athlon hit hot temps, when it turns off I have to uplug it entirely for 5 seconds then back in and turn on, when I get into the bios I usually see 66-67C on cpu temp so it must have been hotter than that during the 10-15seconds time between when it shuts off and when I see it. Only happened 3-4 times.
What about the radiator on the watercooled setup, does it have to be placed vertically or horizontally? Or does it even matter. If I get a water cooled setup I will use one of my 120mm fans (with ducting or something if I have to) to keep it cool, fans are fairly quite and push lots of air. I would also want the rad shown through the plexiglass.