I have a final product from my work this summer. Well, it's running so we'll call it final... It's like a microsoft thing... So this summer, I designed and built a water cooling setup for dual Athlons. I originally didn't think I would overclock, see as there are no adjustments on the multiplier or FSB on the Tyan Thunder K7. So I just went for a quiet efficient water setup. I had 2 11 inch radiators and I had 4 low output panaflow fans for them. However soon after I came across golden sockets... bought two of them... and upped the demand of my cooling system. I purchased a heater core style radiator (D-tek) and went to work cutting up my case. Here is the result.
this picture gives a feel for the whole design, but requires a bit of explanation. The radiator is sitting in a big hole in the top of the case. It goes in about 1/4 of an inch or so... the pump is directy underneith the radiator, sitting on top of the power supply. The small tupper-ware container is the top of a T on the intake of the pump (the system is inline) The entire top back of the case is enclosed in dense foam sheets, and the sides are lined with foam around the fans, to seal them to the enclosure. All the fans pull air out of this sealed area, pulling air through the radiator.
A close up of the enclosure with one side off. Shows the small tupper-ware on top of the intake T. and some random hoses.
gives an idea of the whole setup... well, with the blocks bent off to the side to get the mainboard in. In took me a few days after I got the cooling system running to get up the balls to put that much money underneith it....
A good picture of the serial setup of the blocks, my custom mounting and hold down to the mainboard tray. and a little pick of the golden sockets with some air cooling.
A little Artisitic impression working it's way in.
Basically just me being a big conceeded prick and putting up a bragging picture
Right now I'm running at stock speed, 1.2Ghz, but the golden sockets are under chips. My coolent temp stays around 32.5 degrees or so, CPU0 reads 43 CPU1 reads 40 . (I don't believe in Idling) The difference is probably due to the serial setup... but I'm not 100% convinced, as CPU1 acctually gets the water first, but a simple sensor reference swap could happen anywhere. Those temps seem pretty good for internal thermal junction readings... Any one else have Athlon MP chips with temps??
Thanks for reading... comments welcome.
PS I'll be overclocking soon... need to get bigger balls....