Cheap system
I have built my first water cooled system. It is designed to work in a non overclocked system and features the following spec-
Athlon XP 2600 (333MHZ)
MSI KN2 mobo (nforce 2)
Geforce 4 4600 GPU
Twin Voodoo 2 GPU's in SLI mode (for old glide games)
Aver media digital TV tuner card
1GB PC2700 memory
80GB Seagate Barracuda drive
DVD ROM drive
CD R/W drive
The water cooled set-up
10 scratchbuilt water blocks parallel fed from 15 mm copper pipe manifolds by 8mm PVC pipe.
Voodoo 2 cards feature 3 waterblocks per card fed via their own 8mm copper manifolds (each block parallel fed to act as one waterblock).
Other waterblocks- 1 CPU, 1 chipset, 1 Geforce GPU, 1 Hardrive plate. All copper and brass construction, nothing fancy- built from scrap left over from old central heating system.
1 Ford transit heater core radiator. Copper and brass construction. Modified to accept a header tank/resovoir. Twin 90mm cooling fans.
1 Maxijet 1000 powerhead pump.
Initial tests demonstarted that even a blowlamp couldn't heat up the CPU block when water was pumped through.
System is virtually silent in operation.
Total cost of system, about £30.
Currently finishing off case mods.
Cheers
Andy
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