finished watercooling setup! 2.4c at 3.25GHZ! With pics!

RIGorous1 · Jul 27, 2003

Hi everyone... I just finished the upgrades to my watercooling setup, so I thought I'd show them off to the people here at OC/processor forums. Special thanks goes to SharkyTM who has helped me so much I think he's blocked me

Here are the pic links, they are no glamour shots, but I took them as soon as I finished modding my case.

Link to Pic list

I'm running her stable right now at 39 C which is vast improvement from 48 C before on air.
In load I get 42C as opposed to 55 C on air.

Mind you that these temps do seem higher than others, but I live in Los Angeles where right now its 90 F ~ 32 C in the shade. So I consider these temps to be great.

Oh yeah here are my watercooling specs:

swiftech mcw462-uh
eheim 1250
BIX with two vantec stealth 12cm fans
Bay-Res
1/2" tubing all around

MDE · Jul 27, 2003

your links are dead

RIGorous1 · Jul 27, 2003

link fixed ... sorry

pelikan · Jul 27, 2003

What kind of air cooling were you running before? And is this on your 2.4C @ 3?
Thanks.

Shimmishim · Jul 27, 2003

did you knwo that a shroud would help drop your temps even more?

SharkyTM · Jul 27, 2003

looks great man! I'm glad i could be a help... keep up the W'cooling

WA261 · Jul 27, 2003

Nice job going to h20, but you really need to clean up the inside of that case..it looks like sh*t. =)

RIGorous1 · Jul 27, 2003

what are you talking about... that is clean

VisableAssassin · Jul 27, 2003

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
did you knwo that a shroud would help drop your temps even more?

the black ice rads have a shroud allready built in.....however it isnt a large one LOL but a gutted 120mm fan would do wonders

on a side note i went from a black ice xtreme to a D-tek core.....and saw no temp difference

Yourself · Jul 27, 2003

Originally posted by: VisableAssassin

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
did you knwo that a shroud would help drop your temps even more?

Click to expand...

the black ice rads have a shroud allready built in.....however it isnt a large one LOL but a gutted 120mm fan would do wonders
on a side note i went from a black ice xtreme to a D-tek core.....and saw no temp difference

Really...how did you manage to not drop your temps using a Heatercore vs. Black Ice rad? Must be an airflow problem....

pelikan · Jul 27, 2003

Originally posted by: pelikan
What kind of air cooling were you running before? And is this on your 2.4C @ 3?
Thanks.

RIGorous1 · Jul 27, 2003

Originally posted by: pelikan

Originally posted by: pelikan
What kind of air cooling were you running before? And is this on your 2.4C @ 3?
Thanks.

Click to expand...

Yep I'm up to 3ghz right now 5:4 ratio... I've lost GAT though... but my temps are still stable. I'll push her higher later on and I'll post the results.

Before I was using stock cooling and I was not oc'ed to 3ghz... only 2.6ghz 1:1 ratio

VisableAssassin · Jul 28, 2003

nice looking rig but two suggestions.........first one being two words...cable management clean up your wires soem and itll look ALOT better

and second you may really wanna ditch those plastic clamps and get some steel worm clamps since those plastic ones can "break down" over time more or less caused by stress.....besides i wouldnt trust plastic LOL
but nice rig none theless

I would post pics but i havent found out how to do em here yet

VisableAssassin · Jul 28, 2003

Originally posted by: Yourself

Originally posted by: VisableAssassin

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
did you knwo that a shroud would help drop your temps even more?

Click to expand...

the black ice rads have a shroud allready built in.....however it isnt a large one LOL but a gutted 120mm fan would do wonders
on a side note i went from a black ice xtreme to a D-tek core.....and saw no temp difference

Click to expand...

Really...how did you manage to not drop your temps using a Heatercore vs. Black Ice rad? Must be an airflow problem....

no air flow problem useing the same fan the rad is the only thing in my loop that changed. untill recently when i got a D-tek TC-4 rev. 2 block
but no i didnt see any difference.....but my wallet did

RIGorous1 · Jul 28, 2003

Yeah I don't see how a shroud would help more... plus I can't find any that would fit this BIX all the ones that people have been talking about are made for the d-tek custom radiators which are larger.

Also I've bumped my sytem to 3.25GHZ using 5:4, but I've had to bump the vcore to 1.6v on the cpu (over the default 1.525v).

The memory is still kicking at 2.6v at cas2-3-3-7 and the water still averages 42C, should I bump her even more?

Sandra shows 5800MB/s on mem test! woohoo!

THUGSROOK · Jul 28, 2003

nice setup ~ but i seriously doubt you need watercooling at only 3.2ghz.
these chips dont get hot til 3.4+ghz.... on quiet air.

VisableAssassin · Jul 28, 2003

Originally posted by: RIGorous1
Yeah I don't see how a shroud would help more... plus I can't find any that would fit this BIX all the ones that people have been talking about are made for the d-tek custom radiators which are larger.

on a BIX you take an old 120mm fans cut out the support posts so you can gut it that way you got ONLY the outside box frame now you put the frame on teh BIX and your fan ontop of that and bolt it up and boom your done.........a shroud helps more by directing air over the entire rads core not the edges........basicly the shroud will help get rid of the dead air spot under the hub

GtPrOjEcTX · Jul 28, 2003

push it harder. my 2.4c is at 3.24Ghz on air. 39C idle, 56C load.

touchmyichi · Jul 28, 2003

3.2 for a 2.4 C ain't that impressive. Why don't you cool your chipset too while you are at it?

Jeff7181 · Jul 28, 2003

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
nice setup ~ but i seriously doubt you need watercooling at only 3.2ghz.
these chips dont get hot til 3.4+ghz.... on quiet air.

That's what I was thinking... oh well... maybe he can hit 3.6 or 3.7 with his water =)

Lyfer · Jul 29, 2003

So many cables!

Regs · Jul 29, 2003

Originally posted by: WA261
Nice job going to h20, but you really need to clean up the inside of that case..it looks like sh*t. =)

If that looks like sh*t then my case must look like the toilet of a all night buffet at a Sizzler.

solofly · Jul 29, 2003

Let me point you here since we're talking about 2.4C overclocking...

Jeff7181 · Jul 29, 2003

Originally posted by: solofly
Let me point you here since we're talking about 2.4C overclocking...

Uh-oh... sticky keyboards...

Yourself · Jul 29, 2003

Originally posted by: VisableAssassin

Originally posted by: Yourself

Originally posted by: VisableAssassin

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
did you knwo that a shroud would help drop your temps even more?

Click to expand...

the black ice rads have a shroud allready built in.....however it isnt a large one LOL but a gutted 120mm fan would do wonders
on a side note i went from a black ice xtreme to a D-tek core.....and saw no temp difference

Click to expand...

Really...how did you manage to not drop your temps using a Heatercore vs. Black Ice rad? Must be an airflow problem....

Click to expand...

no air flow problem useing the same fan the rad is the only thing in my loop that changed. untill recently when i got a D-tek TC-4 rev. 2 block
but no i didnt see any difference.....but my wallet did

Going from a BIX to heatercore in my setup got me around a 5c decrease....that's why I'm so amazed....

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