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Originally Posted by Tempus
Or just run pure distilled water and plan on swapping it more often. You can get it VERY cheap - under a buck a gallon. No mixed metals so no corrosive issues. If you see a new civilization growing in the tubes, just flush it, clean it, and THEN get some killer stuff.
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Sounded like the cheapest solution yet so I went with that. Though, I am also conducing an experiment on my 5% baking soda and 95% distilled water idea.
I have two small plastic containers each with 250 ml of distilled water, a copper penny and a
very small amount of dish soap. One also has a table spoon (~1/2 fl. oz) of baking soda. I will be monitoring them for two weeks to track any degradation of the copper penny or any other reactions.
I completed my water cooling setup yesterday.
(I have an AMDXP 2600, overclocked form 11.5x166 to 10x200. Ambient is 25C. All non-ambient temperatures are as reported by CPU sensor. I realise it is HIGHLY inaccurate and inconsistent but it is all I have.)
I had been idleing at 48C-50C now I am idleing at 30C-31C.
At full load, as made by a 100% CPU utilazation and normal length S&M FPU test, I went from ~70C to 34C!
(Now at 11x200 with ambient at ~27C.)
~34C idle and ~37C prime95 full load blend test. (Working on S&M test now.)
I am very pleased with the effectiveness of my water cooling.
All told I spent about $95 including all parts, tubing, fittings, shipping, gas, and taxes.
Now I have two questions:
[question 1]Assuming I had the correct mounting hardware would the stepped MCW6002 work with socket 478, 757, 939, and 940 CPUs?
[question 2]Would there likely be any appreciable cooling disadvantages?