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Unread 01-05-2004, 09:23 AM   #1
Whodovoodoo2man
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: London
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Default 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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