After two re-sealings, and five (5
) in's and out's with the barbs, spent almost all the teflon tape I had, here are the results (for now, 'puter working around three hours with the new block)...
Nothin' spectacular, at the room temp a little high, 25 C on the rad intake, idle 32 C and Cpu burn load for one hour, 38 C.
Guess the setup could use a little bit better pump, copper rad with decent intake area (this mounting of the rad under the midi tower case is not allowing it to breathe fully I think, crappy shroud 1 cm distance between fans and rad) and some decent si tubing (this pvc is kinkinnnnnnnn')... Guess I'm satisfied with the results, gonna try refine the block little more, but that'll happen when I mod the full tower case and setup the watercooling as it should be...
These are temps for amd XP 1800+ @1667 MHz, stock voltage...