I want to know if this water cooling project will work.

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TheRyuu

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Put the fan thing on the MB HS (which is currently fanless). I have Water Cooling (which it's ment for) and it keeps it pretty cool.
 

DerwenArtos12

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Tons of questions:
1) are you just looking to cool the chipset with this setup?
2) have you even considered what pump you're going to use?
3) what size lines are you using?
4) what water block(s) are you going to use?
5) what type or resevior are you looking for?
6) why in gods name would you want to use 12 80mm fans instead of 2 or 3 120mm fans?
7) where were you planning on mounting these radiators?
8) what material are these radiators made out of?
9) what kind of pressure have you tested the radiators to?

I'm sure there's more but thats a good enough start.
 

tylerdustin2008

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1)no i dont want to cool the chipset, because it already has a good enough cooler, if i did cool it i would have to buy two water blocks, NB,and SB have heatsinks 2) i am about to buy a used d4 pump 3) 1/2 line i think 4) cpu water block is probably going to be a zalman the blue one 5) resevior i just want one that will fit in a 5.25" drive bay 6) im using that many fans because it was the best way to go to buy in bulk, i got 18 of them for like $35. 7) i was going to mount these in a full tower case, and run hose out of the back of it and run it into my case. 8) the big one is made of aluminum, and the other is like steal, i think. 9) well these rads. were meant to cool transmissions, so they can handle the pressure.
 

pkme2

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Your engineering technique would certainly help an Intel setup.
Since you have AMD, there no chance that overheating would ever affect your system.
Even if you overclock.

A suggestion in Effective Cooling Basic 101.

I would start with a LL PC-60 as a basic start. Intake fans help cool hardrives, good idea.

Change all case fans to Yate Loons. Change top exhaust 80mm to 120mm. Add slot fan for video card or ZalmanVF900, or the like.

Since the PC-60 is all aluminum and has a mobo tray, heat dissipation is excellent.

My CPUs run at load around 44C and I find that highly acceptable. My old graphic Intelworkstation used to run at 55C in a steel case and I thought that was normal.

I would buy a better PSU (Seasonic S12 600W), add 2 SLI cards at least. But these are my observations and does not reflect on what you have done.

This is an engineering feat of enormous proportions once you accomplish what you set out to do, you got hootspa......
 

Howard

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Originally posted by: pkme2
Since the PC-60 is all aluminum and has a mobo tray, heat dissipation is excellent.
How are these factors contributing to higher heat dissipation?