Octopuss - a bunch of old an new (7 pics)

[schmide]

Let me just say a fair amount of this was done on the cheep, but I'm really happy with the performance.

The list.

Loop 1
DD TDX (Brass top)
DD Maze4 chipset block (Brass top)
5 1/4" Lucite bay rez
DD Mag2 LE (<- first thing I replace)
Black Ice XtremeII
3/8" Tygon everything

Loop 2
Cooler Master Aquagate Duo Viva ($50 shipped direction lol)
Black Ice Xtreme
random 1/4" 12v pump with built in rez (purchased in 1999)
random 4" copper radiator (purchased in 1999)
3/8" Tygon to Black Ice split into 2 1/4" loops one to the random radiator and pump other to Aquagate Duo.
Random fillport made out of a small diabetes test strip canister

Totals
blocks 4
rads 3
pumps 3
tubings and connectors uncountable

Hardware
Q6600 G0
AssRock Penryn 1600SLI-110dB
2 gigs Mushkin 1066
4 gigs Mushkin 800
2x Plait 9600gt ($110+shipping each)
2x Ultra X-Finity 600w (Free after rebate)

I've done basic testing at stock and 3ghz 9x333 1.2v I'll probably go higher later. Ambient 21c. At 3ghz the cores in real temp Tj max 100c are 28c-34c, running OCCT 38c-47c. The video cards run 26c and 33c idle and 33c and 37c running 3dmark 2006. Before I put the Aquagate on the stock temps for the cards were 46c and 64c. When I took off the HSF from what I believe to be the hot card, it had an horridly thick thermal pad.

Pics

Front
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/frontsmall.jpg

Rads
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/frontrads.jpg

Rads Angle
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/frontradsang.jpg

Full Side
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/sideviewfull.jpg

Another Full Side
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/sideviewfull2.jpg

Video Cards
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/sideviewzoom.jpg

Video Cards Close
http://www.schmide.com/octopuss/videocards.jpg

[dark bishop]

dayyyyyyyyyyum, that is one mess of cooling. id be afraid of turning it on.

[Perseus]

Uh, wow! :burn:

[Masska]

Too scary for me:burn:

[DigitalMonkey]

Yea, ummmm.....
How about organizing your tubbing and wires?

But I do like how you mounted your radiators. It reminds me of that V-Mount setup for the RX-7 (FD3S). (RX-7 Fan)

[Sam__]

holy moly thats a lot of tubing. nice temps though.

[schmide]

Thanks for the replies.

I just played 6 hours of COD4 and my video card temps never went over 35c. One video card stays 30c or below.

Not a very CPU intensive game so the cores stayed at 35c or below as well.

When I do my first drain. I'm going to shorten some of the tubes. I do like some of them long because I can remove parts without draining it and arcing tubes have better flow than hard bends.

Ehh lets just call it revision one.

[Godfather1138]

It reminds me of that V-Mount setup for the RX-7

That was the first thing that came to my mind too, only not for the 7's for the 240's.

That is quite a mess, but if it gets the job done and doesn't leak who cares :D

[HDCHOPPER]

thats insane for 47c load temps