OK so I have finished insulating this thing. Unfortunately I was going to lap the maze 4 but am all out of fine sand paper.
Also went to put on the artic 5 and only a tiny bit was left :shrug: . Oh well there is always tomorrow. So I did a quick lap with the 600 grit. (when i got the maze 4 it needed to be lapped badly). Slapped on some low quality goo from my parts bin and hooked er back up. Let the chiller drop down to 5 C then turned on the pump. I see an improvement but not too much overall. I did notice one problem with this chiller. In an effort to keep the in and out ports below the electrics they used to 90's that allow you to connect to the intake ports below the unit. These then run up and into the chiller. they pass rediculously close to the hot side of the sink so I insulated them as well (they are inside the chiller case so I had to pop off the back panel). So right now I am at 28 on the chiller, 43 on the mobo and 39.5 on my external sensor. (degrees C of course) So all in all not lookin to promising even if i remove the submerged pump and use an inline. I doubt it could be adding that much heat. May give me another 6 degrees or so. I'll let this thing run over night and check in the morning. Perhaps I will awake to a frozen block of ice.
