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AdamMil · 12-28-2001, 02:51 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.

6) Do I need to worry about my processor being "locked"? I saw some articles on this, but since a lot of people are running overclocked tbirds and probably haven't been soldering stuff on their CPU, it seems like it's not a problem?

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

12-28-2001, 02:51 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. 6) Do I need to worry about my processor being "locked"? I saw some articles on this, but since a lot of people are running overclocked tbirds and probably haven't been soldering stuff on their CPU, it seems like it's not a problem? Sorry for the load of questions, and thanks in advance!!