Well, after a good few months i'm now back to the watercooling fold, and yesterday I finished setting my rig up (with help of dad).
Gave it a good leak test and made sure all was running sweet and then took it upstairs to test.
Anyway, to cut a long story short i'm not getting the temps I thought I would be getting. Last night it was hovering around 40-42c idle (socket temps) at 11*235 @ 1.9v, and it was the same or slightly lower before when I had my SK-7 and SmartFan II on.
Ambient temps were around 25-26c (85-90F-ish) which, while not a/c standards, isn't too bad, and shouldn't cause such a rise in temps.
My rig is...:
Cascade CPU block
Maze 3 GPU block
Thermochill 120.3
6x Evercool 120mm (80cfm) fans in push/pull config
Swiftech MCP600 Rev.2
Criticool Waterplant reservoir.
1/2 ID tubing.
As you can see, in theory it should be a pretty top-notch and unrestrictive setup, and I wasn't expecting temps to get over mid-thirties centigrade. My rad is mounted on a frame with my pump and reservoir, all external to the case, and my direction goes PUMP>RAD>CASCADE>MAZE3>RES.
The thing is, I also have a Eheim 1260 (600gph) that I can setup to test, and seeing as my Maze 3 GPU block didn't yield a significantly better overclock on my 9800PRO over my Arctic VGA cooler i'm thinking of taking it off and just running the CPU block on it's own. Presumably this should also lower temps a tad as it won't have to cope with the GPU heat.
Basically, ye cooling watercooling PRO's, I need some serious help on optimizing this rig, i've spent a lot of money on it and I want it running smoothly and most importantly cooly. All help is deeply appreciated...
