Guys, here is an
UPDATE:
Some things I have found out from my bathtub watercooling project.
- The water in the bathtub (45 gallons of water est.) stays in cool/cold temperature to the touch after running my system for over
3 weeks straight 24/7. This consists of 80% music listening and 20% video playback. I tried dumping a bucket of ice to the tub. It got a little colder but after a few hours it has returned back to previous water temperature. Hmmm... so I tried
not adding ice for a couple of weeks. The water still remained same temperature as before. In other words, no matter what I did to it the temperature of the water stayed the same. The water in the tub has been
COOLING ITSELF. This is interesting. You don't need a fan for this. You can go on forever.
- Video card GPU temperature stayed at 32~ 33C consistently. And the RAMsinks were mild to the touch, I could even barely feel heat. What this is telling is that cooling the GPU chip has direct impact on the temperature of the RAM chips and the rest of components on the card. There is absolutely no fan in my system. Nothing is blowing air toward the video card or my motherboard. The wine storage cabinet is also closed so there is less air circulation in the system. But the temperature of the ram chips are surprisingly mild, barely warm to the touch. My guess was right, since I had done phase change cooling my video cards in the long past, never needed to cool the memory chips as they were already cold to the touch, and was able to overclock the memory to a level that was not possible with all air HS/F cooling.
- I am surprised how my 10+ year old MaxiJet 1200 pump is able to handle 80 feet of loop to cool my CPU and GPU. The pump is rated at 295 gph but I know it's worn out and lost some pumping power due to such stress.
- Water in the tub after using 3+ weeks didn't get dirty as I thought it would. Upon checking my water there isn't much of debris (hair / dust). And the debris stays a float. The pump is located at the bottom of the tub. I checked the water lines in the loop and they look good so far. I haven't even flushed out the tub yet by replacing with fresh water.
- Because my open loop is keeping my CPU to low temperatures I am able to run the CPU at 1.07V stable. Memory is running at 1.8V. All the rest of system voltages are at the lowest settings.
This bathtub cooling really works based on my testing. I am happy with this. Unfortunately I am / will be broke for the next several years there is a very small chance I will get myself a deep freezer. I just got my money reserved on a $14000 power cable I won't have any extra money left to buy anything else other than food and mortgage / utility / credit card bills...
Once I get the deep freezer I will switch over from bathtub to the freezer as a reservoir. Don't think this will happen this year. Maybe next year when I get some tax refund.....
I am not gonna even bother responding to that Yamtomato or whatever the heck his name is... as he is purely trolling in my thread.
The video calibration setting in ATi Control center seems to be more accurate with my card with WinXP or Server 2003. I never had good result with the calibration with newer ATi cards (HD6000 series).
Also this old card works perfectly with DirectX 9 with old catalyst driver and Windows Server 2003. They mate perfectly for my russian designed video playback software (it's expensive, not a freebee's you guys use). The software version is old too, which I must have, as this works best for video playback performance and quality.
The video is also transparent, more punchy and realistic. The colors are more natural too. Video playback speed is phenomenal. The video was encoded at 30 fps but the playback feels like a 120 fps. It's ultra rock solid / smooth. There is no image blur in fast motion. Also the video and voice is totally synced. Not that I am saying this card does it, but
works best with my playback software.
Anyways, to answer your question, no there are no cables that are bent 90 degrees. All my cables are nicely managed. I use a good quality DVI-D cable for video.
Thank you for the input. It is appreciated.
I am not a troll. Good to know that you gave me three thumbs up, but calling me troll is uncalled for. My cooling is serious and I received a good result with it. I am still amazed how my little water pump is able to handle this long distance loop.
cheez