Well I decided to go with water cooling on my HAF 922 Q9550 system which was a little harder than I thought it was going to be. I guess in the end it was the Asus P5Q deluxe that made it harder than I thought. It's that damn upper mosfet heatsink that caused all of the problems with this board and case.
At first I planned on just mounting the 120x2 rad to the top of the case and moving the 200mm fan to the side panel. I mounted 2 fans to the top of the rad and went to mount the assembly to the top of the case and no go #1 rad hits the mosfet heatsink....Hmm I decide to mount the fans to the bottom of the rad and mount the rad to the top of the case and no go #2 the fans hit the mosfet....Hmm me looks at the 200mm fan and thinks look at all those xtra mounting holes on the bottom of the fan
This is how I wound up mounting the upper rad to the 200mm fan....Quick trip to home depot for some 2 inch long brackets and a hunt for some fan mounting screws and bingo the upper rad was mounted.
Next it was time to mount the second rad 120x1 which I had planned to just mount it at the 120mm fan mount on the rear of the case. Rad was a little bigger than I thought it was gonna be. The tank made it not fit in the spot with or without the fan....Upper rad in the way
I decided to look for an alternate mounting spot for it and was gonna just mount it to the bottom of the case in the spot in front of the power supply as it was already set up for a 120mm fan anyways. It kinda looked good down there....But didn't leave anywhere for the pump and res
Next I thought how about the drive bays....I only needed 1 bay for my LG Blu-Ray burner anyways as it pretty much does everything anyways.
This is what I came up with after some trial and error and a hunt for 2 more brackets a couple of screws and the velcro mounting pad from my res....Didn't even have to drill any holes as the brackets line up with the screw holes for the drives anyways. A nice little 1" wide cross brace in the lower bay was a perfect spot for the velcro to secure the bottom of the rad.
Next it was time to mount the pump and the res which turned out a little harder than I thought also. My goal was to kinda keep it clean looking but functional at the same time. I had ordered a bunch of 90's and clamps when I ordered the rest of my stuff. If I would have known how flexible the hose was gonna be I could have saved a couple of bucks
In the end the only logical setup turned out to be like this
I guess it's maybe overkill for the cpu only at this time. Thought about doing the NB/SB and mosfets but didn't seem cost effective to me. The Asus supplied heatsinks and mosfet heatsink combined with the HAF 922 airflow seem to be good enought....Still deciding on the video card setup and if it'll be water cooled also.
Seems like the loop is functioning pretty good the way it's setup. Comparing the temps during OCCT with the Cooler Master V8 on high speed the cores all dropped about 10-12*C
Got my Q9550 running @4.02ghz with the hottest core running 51*C during OCCT vs 62*C with the V8
Just glad I didn't have to add a bunch of noisey high speed fans to keep the temps in line
I'll add some more photos of the completed system....After the nip and tuck to clean her up.
Looks much better with some nip and tuck action
Now I just need some damn video cards
At first I planned on just mounting the 120x2 rad to the top of the case and moving the 200mm fan to the side panel. I mounted 2 fans to the top of the rad and went to mount the assembly to the top of the case and no go #1 rad hits the mosfet heatsink....Hmm I decide to mount the fans to the bottom of the rad and mount the rad to the top of the case and no go #2 the fans hit the mosfet....Hmm me looks at the 200mm fan and thinks look at all those xtra mounting holes on the bottom of the fan
This is how I wound up mounting the upper rad to the 200mm fan....Quick trip to home depot for some 2 inch long brackets and a hunt for some fan mounting screws and bingo the upper rad was mounted.
Next it was time to mount the second rad 120x1 which I had planned to just mount it at the 120mm fan mount on the rear of the case. Rad was a little bigger than I thought it was gonna be. The tank made it not fit in the spot with or without the fan....Upper rad in the way
I decided to look for an alternate mounting spot for it and was gonna just mount it to the bottom of the case in the spot in front of the power supply as it was already set up for a 120mm fan anyways. It kinda looked good down there....But didn't leave anywhere for the pump and res
Next I thought how about the drive bays....I only needed 1 bay for my LG Blu-Ray burner anyways as it pretty much does everything anyways.
This is what I came up with after some trial and error and a hunt for 2 more brackets a couple of screws and the velcro mounting pad from my res....Didn't even have to drill any holes as the brackets line up with the screw holes for the drives anyways. A nice little 1" wide cross brace in the lower bay was a perfect spot for the velcro to secure the bottom of the rad.
Next it was time to mount the pump and the res which turned out a little harder than I thought also. My goal was to kinda keep it clean looking but functional at the same time. I had ordered a bunch of 90's and clamps when I ordered the rest of my stuff. If I would have known how flexible the hose was gonna be I could have saved a couple of bucks
In the end the only logical setup turned out to be like this
I guess it's maybe overkill for the cpu only at this time. Thought about doing the NB/SB and mosfets but didn't seem cost effective to me. The Asus supplied heatsinks and mosfet heatsink combined with the HAF 922 airflow seem to be good enought....Still deciding on the video card setup and if it'll be water cooled also.
Seems like the loop is functioning pretty good the way it's setup. Comparing the temps during OCCT with the Cooler Master V8 on high speed the cores all dropped about 10-12*C
Got my Q9550 running @4.02ghz with the hottest core running 51*C during OCCT vs 62*C with the V8
Just glad I didn't have to add a bunch of noisey high speed fans to keep the temps in line
I'll add some more photos of the completed system....After the nip and tuck to clean her up.
Looks much better with some nip and tuck action
Now I just need some damn video cards
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