Cheap Chinese Watercooling!!

[Blaylock]

Has anyone ever ghetto'd an h100? Was thinking about getting a refurb from the egg and choppn it up.

 

[tungureanu]

Has anyone ever ghetto'd an h100? Was thinking about getting a refurb from the egg and choppn it up.

I ghetto`d an antek k920. Not worth it. Still ended up with custom loop. even tough it took 4 months to get all the parts.

 

[GTXJackBauer]

There are many AIO mods all over the place whether its for the CPU or GPU.

 

[Daddyjaxx]

Chinese parts, mixing aluminum and copper AND tap water = everything you should not do when water cooling.

 

[caddi daddi]

hoat anti freeze is made for fords, just ask at the auto parts store.
I still have the resevater around, I am looking at a 7970 gpu, now let me think........ resivater+7970+ ek block+(wait for it)........... larkooler = ghetto!!!!!!

blaylock, the only part you can reuse from an h100 is the rad, the pump is just so weak, and if you need a rad just pm me.

 

[caddi daddi]

daddyjaxx, the zalman stuff is spayed with a laquer liner.

 

[mudajama]

Just go to a drug store and grab a gallon of distilled.

 

[JeremyCT]

Don't use antifreeze. Of any kind. The glycols are not required and impede heat transfer. They might (might!) extend the life of the pump by a small amount due to their surfactant properties, but the loss in cooling performance just isn't worth it IMHO. The non-glycol "wetter" products do the same job (including the surfactant effect) without using glycol. I ran an unopened loop with Water Wetter, distilled, and copper sulfate for longer than I should have with relatively few problems, none of them corrosion related. I eventually got some biologicals growing and had to tear it down, but all the parts were impessively clean corrosion-wise on disassembly.

Keep in mind that the Reserator will take a while to reach full load temps due to the mass of the water involved. It might take close to an hour to get to full peak.

 

[caddi daddi]

no glycol in hoat. wrong, it is glycol based, time to do a little research.

 

[Daddyjaxx]

daddyjaxx, the zalman stuff is spayed with a laquer liner.

I'm sure that will help with tap water. Sorry, I'm a purist. If you don't spend the hours, days, and weeks to BYO, you're not water cooling.

 

[Theocnoob]

OP, what CPU are you running? I notice you've got an AM3+ board but only 4 phase power. If you're running anything above an FX4300 you're over-taxing your motherboard just FYI.

 

[dsws100]

I'm running an FX8320. It's been doing alright, I built it about 8 months ago. But sometimes I lose graphics. All sound continues, but my graphics just goes black. I put that down to my psu though, so I'm getting a new one tomorow I think. Unless you think it may be something else?

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I'm running an FX8320. It's been doing alright, I built it about 8 months ago. But sometimes I lose graphics. All sound continues, but my graphics just goes black. I put that down to my psu though, so I'm getting a new one tomorow I think. Unless you think it may be something else?

Sounds like an unstable graphics card.