Okay, these are documents I produced and modified over the years for my waterblocks.
Enjoy...
Get the PDF here...
Hope everyone finds them helpful.
I hope to be following in BladeRunner's footsteps and watercooling my PSU soon with the final goal of only having the 3 low speed Thermister controlled fans for my radiator.
I have been really lazy as you will see by these pictures.
The first one here is of the lower half of my old Antec case. You can see the Water reservoir, and both the prototype block (on the GPU) and the second block (on the CPU). Originally, per the drawings in the PDF, this waterblock was created to work on a Celeron 300A (Slot 1 type). Inside the reservoir is my $20 fountain pump from Home Depot. It doesn't flow much (60gpm) I think with only a 10ft head. But it keeps the water speed slow enough to pick up lots of heat. Also, due to the waterblock design being mostly SOLID copper and not just a copper base or shell, the heat is pulled off the chip heat spreaders VERY quickly.
The next image is of the upper half and consists of my separated radiator section. I kept it separate from the rest of the case to maximize the heat taken back out of the water by the radiator. The air enters the front of the case through an open drive bay and is pulled through the radiator by three thermister controlled fans. These fans run at low RPM unless the temps go above about 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) then they kick into high gear (normal fan speed). I have yet to have this happen, even at LAN parties with NO A/C!
The third image shows the view from the open drive bay on the front with the side off (so it is lit up). Wanna know just how lazy I really am. This is the radiator's intake side (bottom). WOW! look at all that dust and cat hair! I think the last time I cleaned that was about a year ago!.
The fourth picture shows what the front of my case looks like. Yep, that fan hole in the front was BEFORE I started water cooling... I was up to TEN fans in that case when I orginally had the Celeron 300A (OCed to 450). Man that was a heater!
Last but not least... the current temps... EVEN with the dust blocking the radiator. These are MotherBoard Monitor 5 numbers that were originally calibarated with a separate tempreture probe. I would be really suprised if they are off by more than 2 degrees Celsius. The 26 degree one is my CPU Core in Celsius and the 24 degree one is my interal air temp of the lower case area in Celsius. *UPDATE* it took nearly 30 minutes for my CPU core temp to rise after I put the side back on... it's now at 28 degrees Celsius (about 82 degrees Farenheit). /*UPDATE*
Well... that's it... I guess I should get off my duff and clean that radiator now...