Hey all!
My first post here.. been reading quite a bit before deciding to introduce myself.
Well, been addicted to watercooling cpu's almost 2.5years now. A system is never perfect, always new ideas and new projects. I gave up using the peltier on S370 mobo (CUSL2) because of the hazzle to get it air tight and reduce the risk of condensation. Of course it is doable very easy, but i don't wanna add silicone and other non-removal stuff on the mobo. Anyhow, i have to settle with my P3 750 running a 133FSB which is fine for now. Pics from the beginning to the complete setup you find
here!
As you can see from the pics i'm using a rather large reservoir (2 litres) and now during the summer the water get of course warmer which conludes that my cpu is getting warmer of course. So i've been thinking in the same directions as Insomnia did
here and it seemed to work good. A 16degF decrease, that's about 9degC. 9-10degC would set my watertemps to about 24-25degC (~75degF) which i believe would help me push that damn P3 to a 140-145FSB. But it would take way too long time to cool down 2.5litres 9-10degC, so need to reduce the amount of water or even better remove the reservoir and use a closed loop. For that i need a new pump so i ordered this one:
Eheim 1046
This is my plan:
Since i already have one (drain-)pump, reservoir, peltier and two spare waterblocks i could cool the water down by clamping the two waterblocks together with the 71W peltier in between. The cool waterblock is the water for the cpu and gfx board and completly in a closed loop which has less water without a reservoir. The hot side has it's own pump, smaller reservoir and uses of course the radiator to cool the water.
So what you all guys think? A
GO or a
NO-GO??
Below is my stuff:
Aopen HX08
Asus CUSL2
P3 750@133FSB, 1.85V
Asus V7700T/Pro 64Mb DDR
2x128Mb PQI Power Module PC-166
40Gb IBM HD
SB live! 1024 value
Realtek NIC
HP7200 CDRW
Hitachi DVD