- Jun 17, 2002
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So I decided to toss my hat in the water-cooling ring and buy a Koolance Exos with it I bought:
Cpu-cooler 200G
VGA/Chipset cooler.
2ft of internal (clear) tubing..
Arctic Silver 3
Any who I finally got all my stuff today and went about putting it in my Abit IS7 mobo
First out came the Processor and surprise it was still stuck to the intel cooler when i yanked it out of its socket. After placing the cooling block on a hot-plate for 2min i got the cpu off... Speeding things up I got the heatsink off of my R9700pro and was ready to rock.
After cutting the clear tubes in 1/2 I put the vga heatsink along with ASilver3 on the GPU and used the retianing screws to secure it... I then made the mistake of attempting to put the tubes on when the block was on the card.... YOu will be very surprised how much twisting pushing and cursing it takes to get that tube down the inlet/outlet. so I had to take it off and after about .5 hours I had the blasted tube on both the inlet and outlet. Then came the clamps.... man O man those things are the single most annoying things I have ever interacted with... They make absolutely litte difference on the VGA cooler (b/c they go on soo loose) and are frightingly tight on the cpu cooler.
Moving on to the CPU I had the same problem with the CPU and had to spend about a half-hour wrenching the tubes on (remember to use the blue tube(s) for the outside and the clear tube(s) for the inside .... I didnt RTFM on that page and had to retube two connects b/c of that).
Hooking up the tubes to the unit was easy but they didnt lable which connect was "out" (cool) and in (hot) and i put it backwards so my VGA card got cooling b4 my CPU did (I wanted it the other way around), lucky for me the quick-connects saved the day and i just switched the connections around.
The bracket and electronices were a snap, just RTFM and there is no problem doing it.
bleeding it was a bit of time but nothing terrible, although I could not seem to fuill the unit up completely (manual said not to anyways).
Now I have around 40-48c all the time (40-idle about 45-48 load, on setting 1 (2 and 3 make the temp substantually lower but not lower than ambient)) running so quiet that my Antec psu fan is louder than my comp. Mind you my ambient temp in my room is around 80-95F and that I have both my video-card and CPU hooked up to the system. I tried to get the temp higher than 48 and It would not happen. I ran every benchmark (sandra, futuremark)to get it hotter and it would not budge from 50max. I have a p4 running at default voltages doing 3.01ghz, and my R9700pro doing 369/335, I could easily do more on the p4 2.4c but I have that 250mhz barrier problem...
in all It was worth it... I orderd more clamps b/c i abused the hell out of the old ones, and some extra coolant, but the purchase gave me a computer that can be super-silent when i want it and with a press of a button a cooling monster... not bad but $300 is the price for these luxuries.
Cpu-cooler 200G
VGA/Chipset cooler.
2ft of internal (clear) tubing..
Arctic Silver 3
Any who I finally got all my stuff today and went about putting it in my Abit IS7 mobo
First out came the Processor and surprise it was still stuck to the intel cooler when i yanked it out of its socket. After placing the cooling block on a hot-plate for 2min i got the cpu off... Speeding things up I got the heatsink off of my R9700pro and was ready to rock.
After cutting the clear tubes in 1/2 I put the vga heatsink along with ASilver3 on the GPU and used the retianing screws to secure it... I then made the mistake of attempting to put the tubes on when the block was on the card.... YOu will be very surprised how much twisting pushing and cursing it takes to get that tube down the inlet/outlet. so I had to take it off and after about .5 hours I had the blasted tube on both the inlet and outlet. Then came the clamps.... man O man those things are the single most annoying things I have ever interacted with... They make absolutely litte difference on the VGA cooler (b/c they go on soo loose) and are frightingly tight on the cpu cooler.
Moving on to the CPU I had the same problem with the CPU and had to spend about a half-hour wrenching the tubes on (remember to use the blue tube(s) for the outside and the clear tube(s) for the inside .... I didnt RTFM on that page and had to retube two connects b/c of that).
Hooking up the tubes to the unit was easy but they didnt lable which connect was "out" (cool) and in (hot) and i put it backwards so my VGA card got cooling b4 my CPU did (I wanted it the other way around), lucky for me the quick-connects saved the day and i just switched the connections around.
The bracket and electronices were a snap, just RTFM and there is no problem doing it.
bleeding it was a bit of time but nothing terrible, although I could not seem to fuill the unit up completely (manual said not to anyways).
Now I have around 40-48c all the time (40-idle about 45-48 load, on setting 1 (2 and 3 make the temp substantually lower but not lower than ambient)) running so quiet that my Antec psu fan is louder than my comp. Mind you my ambient temp in my room is around 80-95F and that I have both my video-card and CPU hooked up to the system. I tried to get the temp higher than 48 and It would not happen. I ran every benchmark (sandra, futuremark)to get it hotter and it would not budge from 50max. I have a p4 running at default voltages doing 3.01ghz, and my R9700pro doing 369/335, I could easily do more on the p4 2.4c but I have that 250mhz barrier problem...
in all It was worth it... I orderd more clamps b/c i abused the hell out of the old ones, and some extra coolant, but the purchase gave me a computer that can be super-silent when i want it and with a press of a button a cooling monster... not bad but $300 is the price for these luxuries.
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