My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

After saving for about 6 months, I finally got enough $ for my watercooling parts. I purchased everything from www.alphacool.com and they are kind enough to ship it to Canada!

My system is spec is the following:

AMD X2 4800 (watercooled with Nexxos XP)
Radeon X1900XT - OC to 690/800 (watercooled)
2GB OCZ Platinum
147 GB Cheetah 15.4K SCSI (watercooled by the SilentStar Dual)
147GB Fujitsu 10K SCSI (watercooled)
SoundBlaster X-Fi Extrememusic

My temperature is great, the CPU is idling at 27C and reaches 41C under load.
My video card idles at 37C and reaches only 45C under load!

My pump is the Laing DDC 12V pump, the system has 2 pumps and one is a backup, which only turns on if the main pump fails (the flowmeter will activate the second pump)

As an added protect, the system will shut down automatically if the water temp exceeds 40C or if the flow drops to less than 0.2l/min

In fact, the FLOWMETER saved my system once and I am very happy with it. I was unlucky to have one of the older revision of the MCP350 and it failed a few days ago. The T-balancer activated the second pump immediately and sounded a loud pitched alarm! Just imagine without that, all my hardware will probly have went down the drain

Below are some pictures:

http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc044545vb.jpg – Fan, temperature, flow and pump controller (T-balancer)

http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc044556wv.jpg -- German MORA 2 Pro Radiator with 2 500 rpm Nexus 120 mm fans

http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc044577kx.jpg – Overview of system

http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc044566py.jpg – electronic flow meter

Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

Nice rig you got there! :drool:

I recently bought a T-balancer, those things can do just about anything! What's the small thing on top of your t-balancer? And how do you make one pump start when the other fails?

I'm watercooling for the first time too, leak testing my rad at the moment. It's almost as big as your's (380*320mm wo tanks). I'm running two cheapo hydor seltz L30 in series. Cheaper than one mcp655 and hopefully they won't break down at the same time! Considering to buy a new pump but I don't know which one yet. When I've got it up and running I'm gonna try peltier cooling, as soon as I've built a block for it. Untill then I'm running a swiftech storm.

Btw. I won an auction tonight, 10 old blocks. I don't really need any of them, although the peltierblock ain't all wrong. He didn't know what he was selling! You gotta love ebay! :D
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Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

Hmmm an MCW50-T, deent block, only an 80watts pelt though. I modded one using a 160watt Pelt. I had to make my own mounting mechanism as the 160watts was a bit larger.

Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

I've got a few pelts so I could swap to a more powerfull one. They're 50x50mm pelts, how big is the one in the block?

Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

40x40mm... quite a bit smaller.

Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

Damn... Well hopefully I'll find time to make a custom coldplate or what ever is needed to mount a larger pelt some day.

Re: My first watercooling: a great success! Thanks for the help guys!
 

You need to add a mounting mechanism that looks like this..

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It's what I had to do.. and it worked well.. I just bent a piece of Aluminum and spring loaded it. I should get some pics but I'm at work.