[Valk]

Just curious mainly as this is somthing i want to try myself sometime this coming year. Prescott will be released which will cause prices on existing p4's to drop, making them finally viable budjet sollutions. I was happy with my 1600+ as long as it had a nice graphics card in it. my 2100+ is overkilll.

I want to get a Mini pc sometime in the new year after prescotts releases. It is likely i will go with an intel model as there are now chipsets that can feed it with sufficiant memory bandwidth at low latency *shudders at the days of rdram* and these are available in flex platforms now too. sis and intel chipsets are available which support everything i think i really need. most importantly is memory performence and agp 8x. firewire and serial ata is soooooo moot.


soooo. assuming i get somthing like a flex atx system from shuttle based on intel 865G, I would want somthing like a p4 2.4c or 2.6c, and i want to take a stab at miniture water cooling

has anyone else done this? I know the heatpipe coolers on these systems are probably adequate but i still want to mod the hell out of it. its a platform move to convenience but also to have some fun with.
have you seen it done with standard flex cases? I have seen some messed up scratch cases, such as y2k bug and all that which are sweet. but i dont think i could have my comp in that =|

[Stedeman]

There have been a few in here but I don't recall who they where, the trick is to use smaller blocks (Gemini) and pumps (Maxi-jet PH) small rads like the black ice minis. I built one in a briefcase a while back that is now going into a 2U case (desk ) for my daughter.
I will look around for them, but I think one could have been by captain slug but I'm not to sure.

[Valk]

I was kind of thinking of building my own rad. you know, get that whole hands on thing going. I can solder pretty well and i belive its possible to do. failing that, BIM is a good choice XD. dd maze would fit too its just the placement of a pump and res. i know there was a all in one unit for that that had a 1 litre res i think with a integrated pump. Somthing smaller would be needed. more like 500-600 ml with high flow, but not too high as a smaller radiator would probably be a bit happier with a slower system =|
I forgo the dvd rom for the res I think and use the 3 1/2" floppy bay for a digital display with fan controls, and temp readings. a mini pc with a digi doc 5 in it would be pretty weet XD

[Stedeman]

You could use a "T" line instead of Res and the Maxi Jets are small pumps
PS The best “T” type fitting IMHO for a small cases is the “Prestone radiator flush kit” it has a screw on cap with a seal and is about $4 in an auto part store has 3 or 4 T's with different barb sizes (only one cap)

In this pic you can see the Maxi-jet pump and the "T" (The PSU next to it is a mini-ATX so don't let the size mess with you)

[SpaceRangerJoe]

some people have watercooled shuttles, and they are about as small as they come. you can see two of them here and here. a friend and i hope to watercool our shuttles over christmas break, so that should be a challenge. as far as waterblocks go, the koolance blocks are pretty small, and the barbs dont stick up, which would make it a good choice for a very small system. granted, they are not the best in the world, but in a very small system, you will have to make some sacrifices. good luck.

[Valk]

Well i have been looking at the board layouts for shuttle and soltek... I may be wrong, but there appears to be no vertical obstuction to the cpu in those cases. I really want the msi but just for that front panel. thats by no means a performence pc. and qbit isnt a lot better =\ I just wish that shuttle didnt look like ass.

[pHaestus]

Someone posted this one in our forums recently too:

http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...&threadid=8299

Pretty impressive work.

[Valk]

Ok. I really want one of these =| perhaps somthing a little more ... clean and internal but i want it XD. since i would be using a p4 2.4c or.. hell. i might even go for nforce and use my 2100+, I dont belive im going to need a radiator quite that overkill. I should look around for small radiators that work with 60 and 80 mm fans of all copper design. they dont nessiarily need to be computer related. if i could find a heater core this small, wicked cool ^^. incidently, pump wise, isnt there a maxijet that is like... mini? 180 gph i belive and it was really tiny?
out of curiousity.. how efficiant is the thermaltake radiator that comes with the aquarius? I know, i know pre bundled sucks ass. but that is a pure copper rad that fits 80 mm. I kind of want to use a smart fan 2 for looks *is thinking window* has anyone used this rad with say, a dd4?

[feyd83]

I was thinking about watercooling a small case myself. What about some of the small Innovatek blocks?

[pHaestus]

#rotor makes 1U CPU blocks that might be of use to tiny case coolers:

http://3rotor.homelinux.com/cgi-bin/...=9014821.12263

[Valk]

well. i dont have any money right now. i will have to sit on my full size tower for a bit. this spring, ill look into it some more. there is always beer cases if it wont fit