Hacked up Waterchill AM3 Mounting

[Schmide]

I decided to put my WaterChill block on my new Thuban. Well the mounting for AM3 wasn't on the block, so add 6 zip ties, 4 bolts and 4 Knurled Nuts to the mounting bracket/plate and I have a good old mounting. Getting good temps at 20c idle/42 occt load @ 4060mhz. (borked sensors?)

 

[faxon]

now THATS some ghetto rigged shit there man. im sitting here laughing out loud at that mount job. link to which block that is?

 

[Schmide]

It's a block from like 2004 basically a storm clone.

Overclockers Online WaterChill CPU Cooler Antarctica (Skt T) review

A few of us got them in a fire sale from SVC this winter.

The kit I purchased for $75+shipping came with

black ice II 120.2
cpu block
chipset block
video block
pump
tubing
2 fans (too loud for my taste).

I hadn't even looked at the block until I tried to mount it and the holes didn't match up. I thought about ordering something but for $3 at the hardware store this was hard to pass up.

Although I don't have a reference point, it's my first watercooled x6 processor, it seems to be keeping up with the current generation despite its ugly dressings.

 

[alfa147x]

Thats an awesome job, well at least for a hack job!

Hahaha nice work

 

[Kenmitch]

It's a block from like 2004 basically a storm clone.

Overclockers Online WaterChill CPU Cooler Antarctica (Skt T) review

A few of us got them in a fire sale from SVC this winter.

The kit I purchased for $75+shipping came with

black ice II 120.2
cpu block
chipset block
video block
pump
tubing
2 fans (too loud for my taste).

I hadn't even looked at the block until I tried to mount it and the holes didn't match up. I thought about ordering something but for $3 at the hardware store this was hard to pass up.

Although I don't have a reference point, it's my first watercooled x6 processor, it seems to be keeping up with the current generation despite its ugly dressings.

Thought I'd seen that block before....I bought the same kit when I wanted to dabble in water cooling. Currently the only thing I'm using out of the kit is the radiator.

Just using it for temp?

No offense but it kinda looks like something you'd expect to see in Tweakboys sytem

 

[Schmide]

Thought I'd seen that block before....I bought the same kit when I wanted to dabble in water cooling. Currently the only thing I'm using out of the kit is the radiator.

Just using it for temp?

No offense but it kinda looks like something you'd expect to see in Tweakboys sytem

Nah this is it. I don't think Tweakboy could muster this up. (though he does create some uniquenesses) I see no reason to replace it, it's running on par with the current generation of waterblocks.

It's a cheap build. Listing the components.

$130 AMD 1055T (Tiger Direct+bing+rebate)
(free) 4gb OCZ reaper ddr3 (Mwave rebate although I had to return the first set of sticks)
$108 Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
$80 Waterchill
$18 dvd
$34 NZXT M59 case with window (BTW on sale now for $27 AR/AC/AB)
$28 Rocketfish 700w (OCZ modstream clone)

~$400 not counting the 1.5tb drive, Black Ice Extreme 120.1 and a couple fans. So we'll call it a $550 4.06ghz build that runs almost totally silent.

I just have to pick out the graphics card. (always looking for deals)

The cheap vs performance is kind of the bragging factor. The deals find you and you have to figure out what to do with them.

(I already have a q9550 4.0ghz on a brass top tdx with dual WC 4870s as my gaming system)

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Love it!

 

[WoodButcher]

That"s ghetto!
Great rig for the money, nice job.