Black Ice Micro question.......
 

Hey guys,

I am gonan be building my new rig in a few days here and I wanted to go water cooling. Is that micro enough to cool a Pentium 4 1.8A @ 2.7 to 3.0Ghz @ 1.75 to 1.85 volts? This is the only radiator that I can fit in this case and if this don't work I am just gonna have to use a Swiftech MCX-478 I have sitting here :(

I wouldn't do it. That rad is good for a GPU or a chipset, but I wouldn't use it for much more than that. And the GPU better not be putting out much heat .... If you used that on your CPU, I would anticipate the same temps or higher than using a good heat sink fan. It simply does not have the surface area to cool your coolant effectively. You can't fit a BIX in your case? Are you using a mini-tower or something? Cases are cheap. There is a cheap Chieftec full tower (6 ex. drive bays, 2 ex. floppy, 6 int. HDD bays [removable]) on NewEgg for $60 shipped ....

I bought a mATX case for a reason and that for LAN's. I wanted mATX watercooling but U guess I will have to put that into my full tower beast. I just wanted it to look good I dont wanna have an external box either. I have the Enlight EN-7602 case.

Well you could install the BIX either to the sidepanel or the floor of the case like a _blowhole_

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gooFy

How about a couple of the BIMs? Would you have room for something like that?

Side mounting a BIX isn't a hard thing to do ... I did it. But then, I did it in a tower. 2 BIMs wouldn't do much good. They'd have to be run parallel to be effective (but 2 just might do it for decent temps) but the hosing and tackle involved would run him out of room.

Have you thought of this: Put a larger heater core bolted externally on the rear/side of the unit? External mounting is probably going to be a must here, but if you take a thin heater core and externally bolt it on, you might do well by that on your mini-case.

If they can be placed side by side in the case, I think you could do the tubing runs reasonably, provided you bought a good quality tubing (Tygon or Nalgene) that would allow for tight bends.

[edit] Yeah, I agree, if he were to use 2 BIMs, definitely in parallel...[/edit]