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AdamMil · 12-28-2001, 02:46 AM

For my H2O cooling setup, I don't want to take the risks and effort (and the cost in electricity!) for supercooling, so I'm going to go with basic watercooling. I want to cool my hard drives, though, since they get pretty damn hot in the summer.

Does anybody know a good source for harddrive water blocks? I've seen a couple on the site, but has anybody tried them? Cost is an issue too, though, because I have three hard drives to cool, plus the CPU :P

I was thinking of a MAZE1 waterblock from dangerden.com for the CPU, which is an AMD TBird 1.2ghz 266 (feel free to suggest something else :) I may try overclocking to 1.4ghz..

So in short, I need to cool three hard drives and a CPU with 1/2" tubing. Ambient temperatures are about 90 degrees in the summer.

1) What GPH pump should I be looking for to power all of this? Brand/model would be helpful, too. My tower is a big, vertical beast and there'll probably be about 2 feet of lift max.

2) What's a good, economical radiator that would handle this load? :) What about a quiet, but powerful fan for the radiator?

3) My chipset has a fan (and maybe heatsink?) on it already (Abit KT-7A board)... is cooling the chipset worthwhile?

4) Is a MAZE1 ideal for this?

5) I need three waterblocks for my hard drives... the hard drives are far apart (my case holds 6 or 8 hard drives, so they're spaced out.. about the size of one hard drive between each drive), so size shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Sorry for the load of questions, and thanks in advance!!

12-28-2001, 02:46 AM	#1
AdamMil Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 12	h2o setup, HDD cooling, and AMD unlocking For my H2O cooling setup, I don't want to take the risks and effort (and the cost in electricity!) for supercooling, so I'm going to go with basic watercooling. I want to cool my hard drives, though, since they get pretty damn hot in the summer. Does anybody know a good source for harddrive water blocks? I've seen a couple on the site, but has anybody tried them? Cost is an issue too, though, because I have three hard drives to cool, plus the CPU :P I was thinking of a MAZE1 waterblock from dangerden.com for the CPU, which is an AMD TBird 1.2ghz 266 (feel free to suggest something else :) I may try overclocking to 1.4ghz.. So in short, I need to cool three hard drives and a CPU with 1/2" tubing. Ambient temperatures are about 90 degrees in the summer. 1) What GPH pump should I be looking for to power all of this? Brand/model would be helpful, too. My tower is a big, vertical beast and there'll probably be about 2 feet of lift max. 2) What's a good, economical radiator that would handle this load? :) What about a quiet, but powerful fan for the radiator? 3) My chipset has a fan (and maybe heatsink?) on it already (Abit KT-7A board)... is cooling the chipset worthwhile? 4) Is a MAZE1 ideal for this? 5) I need three waterblocks for my hard drives... the hard drives are far apart (my case holds 6 or 8 hard drives, so they're spaced out.. about the size of one hard drive between each drive), so size shouldn't be too much of an issue. Sorry for the load of questions, and thanks in advance!!