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- Jun 9, 2001
I just built an evaporative cooler similar to the one in the nuclear cooling tower water cooling article but a little bit nicer [I plan on writing an article on it.] It keeps the [hot] water temp at 25ºC where ambient is 26ºC and humidity is 60%. My problem is this... MBM reports my temps as 36~40ºC [from sensor under proc, bent upward to make contact + a dab of thermal paste] which I feel is quite unacceptable especially for water cooling. As I said before the water temp after exiting the proc and north bridge blocks is 25ºC [1ºC below ambient.] I have a DangerDen Maze II block on the processor and I'm just wondering if the interface can really be so bad that there would be a 15ºC delta T. I took it off and re-applied the artic silver paste and that dropped the temps by about 7ºC [from 47 to 40.] The load is an Thunderbird 1460mhz 1.79V. I calculated the C/W somewhere between .17~.19, a good air cooler can do that! please somebody with watercooling experience help out here.
BTW can somebody post their hot water temps vs. MBM temps? specifically on an Abit kt7a/kt7a-raid
BTW can somebody post their hot water temps vs. MBM temps? specifically on an Abit kt7a/kt7a-raid