First post, first water cooling system, done lots of searches, have questions.

Just a couple questions actually. So I have all my components on the kitchen counter with a hotwired power supply doing a bit of leak testing. What I have so far: I’m also waiting on a Swiftech micro-res. The version that was out was recalled because the glue used in construction would fail and, well, bad stuff. Everybody’s out of stock at the moment waiting on the corrected versions. For the time being I’m going to have a couple extra feet of tubing going into the jug the distilled water comes in next to my computer.

I decided to measure my flow rate so I washed out a freshly emptied half gallon milk jug, busted out my stop watch, and measured. It took 27 seconds to fill a half gallon jug so that means roughly 60GPH. I think this is ok because on the Swiftech Storm water block review that I found on the main page, the guy couldn’t get his system to 1.5GPM. This is the water block I have so… there you go.

Question 1: 60GPH is good right? I think I’ve answered this for my self but I want to get input from others..

Something else that’s been running through my mind is fan speed. I can plug the fan directly into a power supplies Molex connector and run it at full speed all the time, I can plug it in to the motherboards header and let the motherboard control the speed and alternately through some software my motherboard came with, or I can use my fan-controller with a temperature sensor dunked in the reservoir. I was thinking the motherboard might be the best options since it has access to the CPU’s internal temp thingie.

Question 2: Where should I plug in the radiator’s fan?

Sorry this post is a bit rambling; I’ve been awake a long time. I’ve had http://www.overclockers.com/ bookmarked for a few years, since I was first introduced to the concept of PC water cooling. I think I had a P2 450MHz at the time. This is my first water cooling system of course.

I did a number of searches before making this post and read the stickies and although I didn’t find answers to my questions (though I might have missed them) I did get some cool ideas on where to mount my reservoir and some other cool info.

Anyway, thanks for your time.

to the wet side of computing!

Your 60gph means nothing basically. The D5 is one of the best pumps available with good head pressure, which in PC watercooling is more what you need to be concerned about.

As far as you fan goes, it will need to be running somehow all of the time. How you hook it up really is a matter of preference. If it was me I would just hook it up to a fan controller and be done with it.

Woah. I am using the swiftech M-Res. What are the issues you spoke about with the glue?

netnexus said:

Woah. I am using the swiftech M-Res. What are the issues you spoke about with the glue?

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As I type this both FrozenCPU.com and SidewinderComputers.com (two companies I've ordered from in the past) as well as numerous other websites are out of stock on the "MCRES-MICRO". I called the folks at FrozenCPU.com and e-mailed sidewindercomputers.com and they both told me their inventories of this reservoir were recalled by Swiftech because of faulty glue used in construction. I don't know if it was just one batch (the likely case I think) or all of them made before this point. I suppose you could contact Swiftech to see if you might be affected.

You could just make the resevoir yourself with some fittings and a bottle or a self made container.