Hehe.. Ok, your going to ignore what I type and gawk at the pictures anyways.. So let's just show 'em.
For those who don't recognize that block, it's the Overclock-Watercool mini V-Tuned block. Designed to be completely unrestrictive. Theory goes that the waterblock should be unrestrictive, so that it's not holding the water back at all, so the water doesn't have time to heat up, because it transfers heat best when there's a large temperature difference.
Anyways.. 2 problems, it's not very stable on the core, and I got it without a clip, so I didn't have a way to mount it..
Out comes the plumbers goop...
And into the oven it goes for a fast dry. hehe.. I put normal Arctic Silver on the core, and then plumbers goop all around the block, I added more plumbers goop after the first layer had dried.
When I went to put the CPU in the socket I encountered I minor problem.. Damn arm on the socket was running into the block that was hanging over the edge.. I quickly pondered my options, and decided the best option was to re-engineer the socket, so I ripped it apart, and flipped the arm over. Now the arm is on the other side of the socket.
Pretty cool huh? So how does it perform? Well, I went from a DangerDen Maze1C to this.. Dropped 4f with this contraption.
It's a Duron 800 @ 1050 (150x7) at 2.1v on an ECS K7S5A motherboard. (Uber budget setup right now, $52 MB, $30 CPU, $12 waterblock).. hehe.. It's at 109f at full load with a 68f room temp.
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