Extreme water cooling?

a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
edited September 2003 in Hardware
The looks pretty extreme to me, but maybe that's because I've never water cooled myself, nor knew anyone--personally--that did.

http://members.monarch.net/npoirier/new_box/

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  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    That's not all that extreme. Extreme water cooling involves the use of Peltier elements :D
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    This is taken from his results on his site:

    Even with the 120mm fans turned way down my coolant temperature is extremely low (usually ~0.5’C above ambient air temp)
    "With the 120mm fans maxed out the coolant gets as much as 3-5’C BELOW ambient :-)"
    I find this quite amazing because there is a lot of heat going into the coolant (the pump alone puts out 60w)
    The fastest I have ran my 1700+ was ~2800MHz (2700Mhz is 99% stable, 2600MHz 110% stable)
    The fastest I am able to run my chipset is 220MHz (440 DDR) however I believe this is because I am only running the chipset at 1.7v (the max available before modding the motherboard)
    I am able to overclock my GPU to 325MHz (275MHz is the default)

    The line i marked says it all i think.

    Nice setup though and yes, for watercooling that´s pretty extreme. He need to learn about physics though. Impossible to cool the water below ambient with eh... ambient air.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I think he's talking about lower than his case temps. If he's not...then he's completely wrong
  • fuxorfuxor i live in a giant bucket
    edited September 2003
    extreme doesn't require peltiers ;)

    check my vodka cooled pc thread for an example :D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Of course extreme water cooling requires peltiers. Why? 'Coz I said so, that's why! ;);D;D

    As far as I'm concerned, yes Vodka cooling is pretty extreme... but Vodka cooling with peltiers would be even more extreme ;D
  • seversphereseversphere
    edited September 2003
    the only thing extreme about peltiers is the inefficiency.
  • HawkHawk Fla Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Takes me back to my plumbing days! Nice lookin kitchen sink. lol.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    seversphere- inefficient or not, they can get you below ambient temperatures. Below ambient temperatures gooooooooooood :D
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    he's updated his temps...1-3º C above ambient for his coolant
  • fuxorfuxor i live in a giant bucket
    edited September 2003
    i actually was going to use peltiers with the chiller at first, but the peltier wasn't making good contact with the cold plate and was a total pain in the ass to mount... when the wires broke for the second time i said 'f it!' and went to straight chilled vodka... probably the best decision I made all month :)

    I just wish I knew it was going to be such a pain when I first started planning the computer... could've saved me almost 200 bucks in parts.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    All I can say is that Fry's has some peltier elements that are almost exactly the size and shape of BGA ram modules, as well as some that are almost exactly the right size for TSOP ram modules... Both are rated at like 25w... They're absurdly expensive ($20 each) but if I can find some surplus ones for cheap and Thrax/Mackanz beats my latest 3dmark score (18383), I may have to put some pelts on my 9700's gpu, memory, the system ram, and the mosfets :D
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    That's pretty cool how he uses copper tubing instead of the regular vinyl tubing, and that pump is freaking insane, 3700l/m? Damn....
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