[Anomaly2181]

Hey I have learned quite alot from reading 100's of post on the forum, and I would like to say thanks. I do have a general water cooling question though.....

Without the use of a peltier and using water cooling alone, would it be more advantageous to do a 3 way WB cooling(CPU, Graphics Card, the onboard chip (the via kt333for example)), or just use 2 water blocks(1 on the CPU and 1 on the onboard mobo chip), then use a crystal orb with ram heat sinks on the graphics card.

The setup I'm looking at is a XP 1800(or whatever XP chip I can watercool and OC to the most extreme) on either the Epox 8k3a+,asus a7v333, or the gigabyte ga-7vrxp. The epox is the all around best overclocker as far as i can tell from the reviews, but it doesnt have a 1/5 agp pci divider for extremely high fsb's to still suppost using your graphics card without problems. If anyone knows a sweet board with complete bios control over overclcoking let me know, I would be really greatful. I figure why spend 200 plus dollars on a sweet water cooling setup, if you aren't going to overclock to the extreme? Right : )

Ram: Mushkin 512 PC2100 DDR 'level 2' cas 222. The mushkin 2100 is supposedly overclockable to nearly 3100 on a good mobo. I am curious if there is a single stick of 1024mb cas 222 DDR ram available. That way I wouldn't have to slow down the speed with 2 sticks of 512.

I have my eye on the alluminum Lian-Li Pc_65 with the side window, figure if I'm going to build a pimp setup I might as well go with the best. I am open to other case suggestions, but I do like that case alot.

but back on the water cooling topic.......

I'm thinking it would be quite hard to disapate 3 intense heat sources with just a radiator such as the blackice extreme even. But, I want some opinions and suggestions of possible equipment, and setup if you feel inclined. I'm not inclined to put in a TEC or pelt because of all the heat they disapate, and all the problems I have read people having after adding them with rising case temps.

I was looking at the spir@l 3 water block along with the maze 3...i liked the spir@l though because it pumps the coolest water into the center where the most heat is, and then the danger den GPU GeForce4 WB.
So first set up would include a water block on the
1) CPU 2) GPU and 3) mobo Chipset

Then while writing this I thought what the hey...why not see if its possible to effectivly cool 4 devices with water alone.... a water block on 1) CPU 2) GPU 3) mobo Chipset and 4) the hard drive(s) the (s) plural is for a possible raid setup.

As for the radiator, I was looking at the Blackice Pro extreme supplied by danger den as well.....let me know if this is a bad one or if there are some that are better.

The pump I'm unsure of....I have read conflicting things....higher power is not nessasarily better for it can cause over pressurization in the system, but I'm worried about getting enough water per sec past the WB's to properly cool. I notice most people use enheims though.

Tubing I would probably go with 1/2' silicon, I'm looking for durability/reliability most. Let me know if there there is another good tubing. It sounds like you don't want any 90 degree bends either otherwise you kill the flow rate. But this lead me to think....well... a radiator is esentially a few hunded 90 degree turns wrapped into a coil to allow maximum exposure to ambient temp air....so won't any radiator basically kill flow, and create massive back pressure on the pump?

The resevoir I'm totally unsure of, obviously I don't ever want any leaks, it is also nice to be able to see into the resevoir to see how far to fill it...and guesstomate current waterlevels. So...... ie transparent or translucent.

And as far as an airtrap goes, I'm still reading up on how to make one, so far I know its a pretty simple self made device with an in and an out that is placed above the rest of your cooling system to trap rising air.


The final rig would have a nice acrylic light or 2 for effect : )
Trust me I will build this system, I have money coming in. Although the system might be built in installments in order to keep money for food (the stuff that keeps us humans alive) : )

Any opionions are welcome. Thanks