Pureh, the reason he is so confused is because he is running a heatercore with flat tubes.


Jon

Pureh20,

My heater core/radiator does NOT have tubes at all...

The fin design is stamped in such a way it makes passages when the fins are soldered together. Similar to flat tubes.

Here's a picture of the core when I received it... looks like there are 12 of those stamped tube rows to me. The two end ones are only half a tube.

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mmz_tl_01...s/Dscn0406.jpg

if you want more experience putting together some electronics you could try this project. a nice little digibus that you can put together and then control using software(pwm). it would give you a little more control over noise and temps with your fans.

MY BAD! sorry have seen many a heatercore like that with several round tubes, looks like you really have perfected your setup :)

So, did you use 1/2" copper for all the blocks? And what size did you use for the soldered on "lids"?

Great system man, I hope to make one here soon to watercool my psu/mosfets/hard-drives/video card ram.

Gonna fit it all into a mid tower case as well, but I'm getting off topic. Nice system.

The base blocks the hard drive solution used 1/4" plates with 1/16" lids and the video card solution used 1/2" plate for the front and 3/8" plate for the back with 1/16" lids on each.

The PSU is probably the only 2" x 1/2" piece of bar stock I used. It had a 1/32" piece of sheet copper for the "lid"

Ok... this topic is waaaaaayy out of my league but I had to post something. I've just finished skimming my way through these 10 pages of posts and I'm almost speechless. TimeLord, excellent-super-fantastic-extremely-uber-great-outstanding work on everything!!! I was looking at all the pic's and was literally like.... wow.....*picks up jaw off floor*......wow.....*picks up jaw off floor*.... repeat 100 more times.:drool:
I'm very impressed with all your custom blocks and I really like your hard drive block and 9700 AIW block. Ok... enough butt kissing :dome: (lol) but seriously good job and keep it up. :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

I do have a couple questions. 1- How many hours did you put into that whole project and 2- How much of that green paper stuff did you spend on this?

my guess would be 1 = far to many and 2 = far to much.......... but that's not the point is it ;)

The fact is you couldn't buy 90% of what MZ has made, and only he will have that warm glow from knowing it was his hard efforts that got him there.

a quote from Yoda (*aka Rotor) about the original danger den chipset blocks a long time ago in a distant galaxy...

Never was a truer word spoken Bladerunner - I remember when I built my first block... awesome feeling :)

refering back to the temp. circuit board project.

starbuck3733t:

consider writting up a small how-to article on building the curcuits? list of parts, est. cost, and a couple of circuit diagrams and explanations. i'm sure pH would post it...

Someone already did trit87....

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1059/

I just made a proper printed circuit board for it :)

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...m=703008003631

oops, thanks... i guess 6 hours of economics testing today has me a little out of it...

Oh I know that's not the point. I just was curious is all. And yeah, I'm sure if you build your own blocks..... especially if you have a very thought out setup like TimeLord does, than the satisfaction from successfully completing it is awesome :D

Money spent on endmills, drillbits, wet/dry sandpaper, solder, propane, etc... didn't exceed $200 US (to my best recollection)

Time spent ... well... hmm... for the whole project to the last "beauty shots" was about 4+ hours a day 3+ days a week for about two months... you do the math. :eek:

Satisfaction... priceless. I now have a water cooling solution that no other person posseses and I designed and built it myself.

Not too shabby for a guy with no college education... :D

Bump for a priceless thread.

I also received my copper order, and it's just a matter of time before I get started on my HDD and PSU projects. :)

(Some copper will also be turned into a heat die, for testing, yeah, it was a big order, cheers pHaestus!)

Re: MMZ_TimeLord's System Rev 02 (Worklog)
 

Well, I've finally retired this system. No failures, just an old machine. I could probably update it with SATA drives now, but I'm using the cage as an external Hard Drive holder for a two drive mirrored set. Everything else in the original machine works, it's just not up to standards today.

Not to mention time and money to keep tinkering. I've been storing it for about a year now and will probably pull it out of storage some day to rebuild it.

How did your stuff turn out bigben2k?

Re: MMZ_TimeLord's System Rev 02 (Worklog)
 

Amazing work here man! Just looked over the whole thread, might be approaching my upgrade build in a similar manner. Debating whether to spiff up my old full tower and go water cooled, or go back to air and use my Antec 300.

Have some pictures of your new system? Anything custom on it? I'd buy that video card from your old box if you'd part it out.

Re: MMZ_TimeLord's System Rev 02 (Worklog)
 

Be kind of hard to part with it... I'm thinking of framing it. :D

Seriously, at this point in my life, the time issue has taken away the watercooling bug I had... :(

Cheers!

Re: MMZ_TimeLord's System Rev 02 (Worklog)
 

Heh, well, if you ever do replace it in the upgrading process, I'd appreciate it and use it! It's also a TV tuner, correct?

Re: MMZ_TimeLord's System Rev 02 (Worklog)
 

Indeed... that was one of my concerns when I built the sandwich block for it.

I'll make sure and post it here if I decide to part with it.