Watercooling!

[Greebe]

Ali, how many times have I heard people claim that deionized water won't conduct electricity makes me laugh. True it won't conduct at first, but then a PC isn't a clean, sterile enviroment. It will absorb dirt, metal ions, etc., inwhich once it does will enable it to conduct electricity and thus corrode electronics.

[ZokesPro]

Water will only conduct electricity if it's not pure. As soon as it has more than just H20 in it than your screwed.


Edit: oops. Should have proof read my post before posting it. Goes to show how much sleep I've had!

[Technoid]

greebe,
do you have anything "extra" in your cooling liquid?

[Wombat]

A little automotive antifreeze may do the trick nicely - we use it here at work, and we have <B>serious</B> water rigs.

[az]

Wombat, that might well be what G12 is. I don't have a car, so I don't really know - but it's something that's used in car cooling systems.

AZ

[Greebe]

Nope... just highly filtered water

[az]

Then it's the anti-corrosive that VW sells for their cars (because they use mixed copper/aluminium parts), preventing any galvanic err... issues.

Thanks for the clarification, though.

AZ

[Technoid]

Now I have installed the water system again....
No surprices
Still 40c idle...

But here is the surprice

43c under full load
Rock steady!!

With the Aluminum block it always went up and down, not much just a degree but now it is "frosen" there....

I'm going to overclock the bastard to see if I can get the temp up...
(If I remeber corectly the bastard got a degree warmer for every MHz Guess why I never thought overklocking was any funn with that cpu )

[Greebe]

No suprise here Tech... and why I suggested swapping out the waterblock first

[Technoid]

Lets see how much I can overclock per raised c under full load

[mutz]

THANK YOU!!!
Thank you Greebe, thank you Techanoid, Testjoe, Ali & everybody else.

I CHICKENED OUT!

Testjoe started the whole thing with those pics. Even printed them out to show my OC man. I've been following this thread and scouring the net since I caught WC fever from those pics, now you guys have brought me back home to my own reality. Thank you!

My computer is "always on", including when I'm traveling, which can be more than a month. I was in a real struggle between WC fever and a vision of coming home to strange smells, twisted, black floorboards and a fish tank. Though I figured I could always mod with side windows and convert it into an aquarium, but then all those exotic metals in there corroding would probably kill the fish too...

Besides, the guy in my local OC store said they hadn't been able to duplicate Innovatek's numbers and felt a bit iffy about leaks or corrosion in the Innovatek waterblocks. I also was concerened about stressing the P board with all that weight and leverage.

So I did something different. A Fujiyama IHC-L71 silent heat pipe for the CPU, cute little sinkies for the P RAM stuck on with Artic Silver, two more (now four) Pabst exhaust fans at the back, cutting out the old stamped grills and screwing on those nice chromed wire grills.

Result? 10C drop on CPU temp, same for the mobo. Slightly quieter, but still have to work out something for the P fan and the Northbridge fan. Noisy buggers...

Any suggestions?

Wanna see some pics?

...and thanks again!

[az]

Yes! Pics!!

And, what did the heatpipe cost, what CPUs is it suited for, and where did you get it?

How about a Zalman GPU heatpipe cooler?

AZ

[mutz]

...just lemme plug in the camera and "develop" them.

...and eat something first!

[mutz]

... ok, let's see how this works...

[mutz]

..and this one..