Water cooling - a different look...

[liqnit]

this guy took SUZUKI radiatior and turn it part of his water colling system...
just take a look
http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/cooling-and-temperature-monitoring/35153-finally-got-watercooling.html

[zachig]

Look at my own watercooling rig. Believe me, it is more bizarre. I've used an old "Daewoo Racer" car Heat-Core Radiator. :lol:

Have a look:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/zachig/WaterCooling.jpg

[tomato]

Geez guys! That is some hardcore crazy watercooling methods you have going on there :shock: Whatever works, I guess...

[werty316]

DIY always works.... most of the time...

[zachig]

Yeah, I guess you're right werty. :wink:

Oh...and thanks for the complements, tomato. :D

[pym]

Wow, heavy system you've got there, zachig.
Really interesting.

Where do you find the time...

[werty316]

I like the DIY mods. It saves money and you can take pride in your work.

[Bio-Hazard]

I use dual 2-302 heater cores in my little system. I guess it's enough to keep my system cool enough.

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/7572/318jd.jpg

[zachig]

WOW :shock: That's a pretty impressive watercooling system you got there, sbrehm72255. :wink: And quite neat and well organized, if I might add. :)

[liqnit]

it looks comletely proffesional.
have you mad some pictures while you built it ?
can you post a link?

[zachig]

Hey liqnit, you can see some of sbrehm72255 pictures here:
http://www.bjorn3d.com/theforum/viewtopic.php?t=57023&highlight=

[Gray]

Nice compact rig!

I once made a water-cooling solution for my computer, I think I have the Water-jacket around here somewhere.....

I lost all the damn digital photos of it, but here's what I did....


First I needed a heat exchanger so I went to the auto wrecker and got a heater core from a 1990 Civic or somewhere around that year.

It looked identical to this one.

http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/06/15/8e/65_1_b.JPG

I then built a shroud out of cardboard and put two of these sunnon fans in front of the heater core forcing air through it in the housing. There was a lot of air moving through that thing!

http://www.thecardcooler.com/images/thumbs/sunonfan.jpg

I then got one of these Beckett fountain pumps from Home Depot. 90 Gallons per hour.

http://www.marketexpo.com/new_product_images/7060010.jpg

I then got some 90degree plastic elbows and tubing to run the coolant.

I used water with a little bleach in it as coolant, which I put in a big pail just like this. Put holes in the lid for tubes.

http://www.containerandpackaging.com/pics/P067W.jpg

Then I used a 4" threaded PVC end cap and sawed off the square top and then used the plastic elbows to make a Water Jacket. This is Exactly the same size as the Pentium 3 Socket 370 CPU so I was able to use caulking to "glue" the Jacket directly to the CPU. I let it dry for 3 days on top of our hot water tank.

This piece (except for the water pump & fans) are all I have left


http://www.bjorn3d.com/photos/data/515/side.JPG

http://www.bjorn3d.com/photos/data/515/bottem.JPG

No thats not still glued to the CPU.

This rig worked flawlessly! The best part about this is that the water runs in Direct Contact with the back of the CPU which is tremendously more effective at removing heat then just a piece of cooled metal riding on the back of your CPU.

IF I remember correctly I was able to get my P-III 733Mhz to somewhere in the 1050 MHz range. Usually I would run just under 1 GHz. If I wanted the extra boost I would dump a bag of ice into the bucket. lol.

Even with the ice being in there I never had a problem with condensation at all.
I guess I was lucky.

Well that was my rig. :D

[zachig]

WOW!!! :shock: Very impressive, Gray.

I never thought of glueing a semi-open waterblock directly on top of the CPU. :shock: That's crazy :lol: But yet, very effective. :wink:

[Bio-Hazard]

There seems to be a lot of people trying the direct contact method these days............ :shock:
As for me, I'll stick with normal water cooling, I can't aford to replace a CPU/system if I screw up on a direct contact test.................... :cry:

[BlackStar]

Same here. I like my little Big Water kit. Easy to install and works well.

I do enjoy seeing how creative people design their own systems, though.

Fantastic. All of it.

[Bio-Hazard]

The Big Water is a pretty good kit really, I put one in my sons rig for Christmas last year and he's still very happy with it.......... 8)