to much weight?

Spinoza · 06-24-2001, 05:18 PM

I'm putting together a Tyan Thunder system. I'm cooling it with two swiftech water blocks. Each block weighs like 2 pounds. The system is going into a lian-li PC-70. Do you think that's too much weight to have the board up on it's side? That's a ton of weight to hang off a mainboard. Suggestions?

lancelh · 07-01-2001, 05:09 AM

The new AMD boards have 4 holes next to the CPU socket. If your board has this you should use them. I haver a Danger den Maze 2 and the whole unit weighs around 3 1/2 pounds they use the wholes to mount you'll get the idea. I can't imagine why you want 2 water blocks on that thing anyway. Buy a maze 2 it comes with the brackets and it will cool a hell of a lot better. www.dangerden.com

lancelh · 07-01-2001, 05:12 AM

Duh because it's a Dual board

chefmws · 07-01-2001, 01:45 PM

a maze2 weighing 3 1/2 pounds?..
thats 56 ounces... i seriously doubt that weight is correct. the size of a peice of copper that has been milled out to weigh 56 ounces would be much larger than the deminsions of a maze2.
didn't mean to flame anyone but making a random unsupported claim on weight could scare some people from using a watercooled system.
i would be very surprised if the maze2 weighs over 1 pound. i just ordered one from dd along with a chipset block and the entire shipment was less than 2.5 pounds.

GuyBFF · 07-01-2001, 02:49 PM

According to the shipping page of Danger Den, the Maze 2 Block is 1.1 pounds. I would say it ways more full of coolant though (and with hoses hanging full of coolant). Not to much because of great holddowns, just don't try any one story drop tests.

Spinoza · 07-01-2001, 06:56 PM

Reply to own post:
For the first guy... The swiftech blocks only mount through the new 4 hole mounting specification. I guess I'll just put the thing together and see what happens. if it looks too weak I'll lay it on its side or something. out...

06-24-2001, 05:18 PM	#1
Spinoza Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 42	to much weight? I'm putting together a Tyan Thunder system. I'm cooling it with two swiftech water blocks. Each block weighs like 2 pounds. The system is going into a lian-li PC-70. Do you think that's too much weight to have the board up on it's side? That's a ton of weight to hang off a mainboard. Suggestions? __________________ Thunder K7 Athlon 1800's Danger Den/Ehiem to cool jig of RAM http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~vito/complete.jpg

07-01-2001, 05:09 AM	#2
lancelh Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: B.C. MI Posts: 17	The new AMD boards have 4 holes next to the CPU socket. If your board has this you should use them. I haver a Danger den Maze 2 and the whole unit weighs around 3 1/2 pounds they use the wholes to mount you'll get the idea. I can't imagine why you want 2 water blocks on that thing anyway. Buy a maze 2 it comes with the brackets and it will cool a hell of a lot better. www.dangerden.com __________________ "FIRE FROM ICE"

07-01-2001, 05:12 AM	#3
lancelh Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: B.C. MI Posts: 17	Duh because it's a Dual board __________________ "FIRE FROM ICE"

07-01-2001, 01:45 PM	#4
chefmws Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: atlanta Posts: 9	a maze2 weighing 3 1/2 pounds?.. thats 56 ounces... i seriously doubt that weight is correct. the size of a peice of copper that has been milled out to weigh 56 ounces would be much larger than the deminsions of a maze2. didn't mean to flame anyone but making a random unsupported claim on weight could scare some people from using a watercooled system. i would be very surprised if the maze2 weighs over 1 pound. i just ordered one from dd along with a chipset block and the entire shipment was less than 2.5 pounds. __________________ if its dead and edible i can cook it!!

07-01-2001, 02:49 PM	#5
GuyBFF Cooling Savant Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Winnipeg, MB, CA Posts: 242	According to the shipping page of Danger Den, the Maze 2 Block is 1.1 pounds. I would say it ways more full of coolant though (and with hoses hanging full of coolant). Not to much because of great holddowns, just don't try any one story drop tests. __________________ A7V8X Danger Den Maze II Danner Mag Drive 350 Heater Core Style Rad Thunderbird 1400 (Soon Barton) 512mb PC2700 CL2 Promise SX4000 Raid 5 w/256mb PC133 Cache 4x40gb Western Digital 7200hdd Plus More...

07-01-2001, 06:56 PM	#6
Spinoza Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 42	Reply to own post: For the first guy... The swiftech blocks only mount through the new 4 hole mounting specification. I guess I'll just put the thing together and see what happens. if it looks too weak I'll lay it on its side or something. out...

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