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01-12-2002, 07:56 PM | #1 |
Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Union City, CA
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Making a water cooling rig is tough work
Well now I know why it takes water cooling projects a long time to develop. It just ain't easy building a water cooling rig. That's in my opinion of course. I'm measuring everything 3 times just so I don't goof it up. I'm making sure the placement of all the tubes, pump, radiator and reservoir can work out so that I have everything within 1 case. Then pray to god when I do all have it in place that no leaks develop. Of course this is all in good fun and shouldn't even be considered work. But it sure is tiring. I just wanted to breath a sigh of weariness too all my water cooling buddies out there. So when the going gets tough, pick up that favorite beverage, smile at your project and begin again in a bit. This will be the first forum I post my project when I'm done. Probably in a month Hopefully all the actual computer hardware isn't to outdated by then. hehe.
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01-13-2002, 12:03 PM | #2 |
Cooling Savant
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Snowyland(not Alaska)
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I slap all mine together in a about an hour. THat is my most recent and complex one too. WHich was mainly just needing to bleed the bitch about 30 times to get air out.
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01-13-2002, 03:25 PM | #3 |
Thermophile
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if you have all the parts together, it doesn't take too long.
making all the parts, waiting for them to come from the other side of the world, etc takes time |
01-13-2002, 06:38 PM | #4 |
Cooling Savant
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nebraska
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I'm drilling my blocks out now. Gonna have 5/8" ID tubing
I started, but I need to get a clamp unit for my drill press, every other way I try to clamp it down, it starts to move as I drill. (not much, but I like clean edges) I don't know when I'll end up returning to the project. College starts again tomorrow, and it's back to the books
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01-13-2002, 10:51 PM | #5 |
Cooling Savant
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Suwanee, GA
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mine took about 30 min to have it running and leak proof (I ran it for 48 hrs after that to be sure).
I didn't have to bleed the sys tho (inline with du-bro tank as a res) |
01-14-2002, 02:33 PM | #6 |
Thermophile
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5/8" ID, man, what pump are you going to be using? a model 12 Danner or something?
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01-15-2002, 12:09 AM | #7 |
Cooling Savant
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Location: Nebraska
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Danner 3.
Since the inlet is 5/8", and the outlet is 7/16" ID x 3/4" OD, I was just gonna drill out the outlet to 5/8". I mean... Why not? I mean heck, even when you get 1/2" barbs, you're still not getting a 1/2" hole. With my 5/8" barbs, you only get a 15/32" inside diameter hole. I mean yeah, it's 1/32" less than 1/2", but it's still not a half inch *sob* This was as big as I figured you could really go... Mainly because I'd have to pipe the tubing, and I just wanna use barbs and flexable 5/8" ID tubing. I am using nylon reinforced tubing though, to give it rigidity and not kink as much.
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01-15-2002, 05:15 AM | #8 | |
Cooling Savant
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Quote:
Get it at http://www.mcmaster.com/ |
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01-15-2002, 02:30 PM | #9 |
Cooling Savant
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If you heat it with a hair dryer it will lose it's "curl memory". I don't want silicone, it costs too much...
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01-15-2002, 03:35 PM | #10 |
Cooling Savant
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thanks 4 the tip!
Silicon's not that bad. How many feet are you planning on using? |
01-15-2002, 07:37 PM | #11 |
Cooling Savant
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Well, I bought 6 feet of it. I built a stand outa MDF to put my computer on, in that stand I will put my pump and my rad/fan. Not sure how I'm going to run the tubing outa there.... Kinda depends on how I attach everything.
Right now, I plan on having the radiator go parallel to the depth dimention (front to back) of my computer. The fan will blow in from the side, and will have enough opening to blow out the front/back. The pump will go in the back, under the stand. It will accept about a 4" hose from my radiator, and pump to my processor, from there, to the GPU (hopefully without too much trouble) and then from the GPU, back to the rad, which will probably require a hole in the bottom of my case. --Since I have a coolermaster case (which is fairly small) I will probably drill out the PC Speaker hole and will run my hose and power for the fans out that hole. Silicon is just expensive because it's like over a buck a foot, plus shipping. The stuff I got was 68 cents a foot.
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01-15-2002, 07:44 PM | #12 |
Cooling Savant
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sounds like it'll be a cool system.
Hope all goes well! Are you just watercooling or are you going to run a pelt? |
01-15-2002, 09:59 PM | #13 |
Cooling Savant
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Just watercooling. Maybe I'll pelt later, not now.
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01-16-2002, 01:47 PM | #14 |
Thermophile
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what radiator are you going to be using?
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01-16-2002, 02:31 PM | #15 |
Cooling Savant
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Heatercore off a 1974 Chevy Chevete. It's all copper, and 5cm x 23.52 cm x 16.3cm Nice and large
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01-16-2002, 06:41 PM | #16 |
Thermophile
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hehe ok, you're all set then, you've got a great setup
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01-16-2002, 11:58 PM | #17 |
Cooling Savant
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I'm glad you approve I'll get it built eventually. It's gonna take me a while though.
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01-17-2002, 02:47 PM | #18 |
Thermophile
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the problem is that you still have a computer to use. get someone in your house to hide your psu or something. so then you have to do it
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02-03-2002, 06:46 PM | #19 |
Cooling Savant
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Location: Austin, TX
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i started mine in August of 2001, and it's finally done. thats because i didn't have all the parts at one time. plus i made alot of it.
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