my first go at hand milling
 

I don't think that this has turned out too bad for a first attempt at guiding my drill press around the block.
Just gotta get a piece for the top and solder it on.
Since I've been getting interested in water-cooling, I've noticed it becomes something of an obsession, I've got reams of paper all over the place full of doodles of my ideas.
If my money matched my ideas I'd be a very rich man :D

Cheers
Chris.

Nice. Is that copper?

You're well on your way, and I hope that you do finish it.

You'll need to measure the baseplate thickness: if it's around 10mm, then you'll want 100 gph effective flow. If it's 5 mm then you're going for 200gph. The latter will give you more cooling.

oh ya, you think you would be rich..... :D:D

I use AutoCAD for my ideas.... Just imagine......

looking good though, and don't be surprised if that block, for some strange reason, performs about 5 times as good as you would expect, looking at the unsmoothness of the channel, vs. those CNC made ones... you will be pleasantly surprised.

Hmm...that looks actually quite nice for a first-timer ;)


Post the final result, when you are done :cool:

my waterblock is EVEN simpler and outperformes a maze2 :)
as rotor said its probably going to surprise you with its performance :)

Thanks for the replies.
The drill size I used for the final pass was a 10mm (3/8") one, the copper block is 18mm (3/4") thick and I think at the bottom of the bore it's leaving a thickness of approx 5mm (3/16").
The first one I did was a drilled and plugged one, it's running now, so all I have to do is swap blocks over once I've got this one finished.
My systems been running overnight downloading some files and my temps are as follows :

Room = 23 C
System = 33 C
CPU = 38 C

So, if as you suggest I may even improve on my very first effort.
I've made mine so that everything except the water block is in a seperate box. Here's a picture of my setup at the moment.

Cheers
Chris.

Here's a picture of the insides of my box Since this picture, I've installed another 120mm fan, to give me more pulling power with less speed = even less noise.

Cheers
Chris

Nice setup ya got there......care to show some pics of the final result of the waterblock? :)