Okay, sorry about the delay. I chopped another hole in my case (this is becoming a nightly occurance), so now one 120mm fan sucks air into the rad, and the other blows it out the other side, with a duct around it ... it's like a wind-tunnel running laterally thruogh my machine. After that was finished, I'm now running 47-53C at 12.5x133 (was at 12x133 ... even now I'm too hot to bump the bus). The wierd part is that the air coming from the tunnel isn't nearly as hot as it should be. That aside, the block is warm, and I'm not lacking flow at all. Even with 1 block, the res, the rad (BIXr2), 2xelbows and 7ft of 1/2" (interior) hose, I am getting massive water flow going through here. That NurseryPro I'm using pumps like a mutha. Oddly, when I blow a fan over the block/cpu, the temps go UP 1-2C. I don't have a way (yet) of measuring the water temps ... I'm still looking for a cheeeeep thermometer (two-three dollaz). I'm really considering pelting, now. Logic tells me that if the air from the rad isn't too hot, maybe it can withstand a much higher temperature load (from a pelt).
Question for MKOSEM (if you see this): you described a psu from MPJA that carried 15V/20A. If I wired a 226W (15.6V,24A) pelt to it with a decent resistor in series, could I drop the power output on the pelt to around, say, 75% of the pelt power and run this without the PSU blowing up? I'd like to use a higher power unit than a 156W, but I don't want to spend a ton on a PSU. Any help would be appreciated.
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