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- Dec 7, 2005
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- Walnut Creek, CA
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.
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[URL=http://www.swiftnets.com/products/storm.asp]Swiftech Storm CPU Waterblock[/URL]
[URL=http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=150&cat=47&page=1]Danger Den Acetal MAZE4 GPU[/URL]
[URL=http://dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=157&cat=46&page=1]Danger Den MAZE4 Chipset Block[/URL]
[URL=http://coolingworks.com/products/CoolRad12T.htm]CoolingWorks CoolRad Radiator[/URL] w/ [URL=http://www.coolingworks.com/products/mini.html]Shroud[/URL]
[URL=http://www.lainginc.com/D_Series.htm]Laing D5 pump[/URL]
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.
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