Anyone tried the ThermalTake Aquarius II water cooler?

[NuGGeTTi]

YAY a Water Cooling Thread!!!

i havent tested that setup but i read that it has a terrible kinda nocie and isnt that high in performance!!!!

myself i got a custom Water Cooling Setup with

Eheim 1048 Pump
Custom Reservoir about 0.9l
Custom Copper Block
Black Ice Xtreme Radiator
LianLi PC-71
still need the paint job and windows but the wc is done and working
Edit Temps that i got is
AMDAXP 2400+ Running at 2325mhz at 35C idle and 38-39at load
pic

[Fat Tone]

@Tjalfe - did you get anywhere with reading those temperatures?

Cheers

Tony.

[Guru]

Originally posted by NuGGeTTi
still need the paint job and windows but the wc is done and working

Good thing you got the toilet working!

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by Fat Tone
@Tjalfe - did you get anywhere with reading those temperatures?

Cheers

Tony.

Yeah.. hovering around 45C.. not the greatest, but I don' have alot of water circulating compared to the big shots with custom watercooling solutions

Edit:
I forgot to add that it is an Barton 2500+ @ 3200+ (2.2GHz)

[Fat Tone]

That's not bad at all really. To keep my XP2500+ below 50 when at ~3200+ speeds, the Aero7+ cooler I currently have has to be turned up quite high. At stock speeds its virtually inaudible.

Unfortunately the speed control knob is irresistible to my 16month old and he dives for it every chance he gets!


Due to a series of happy coincidences, upgrades etc, my PC will transform from:

XP2500+ (usually @ stock), Aero7+ cooler, Epox 8RDA+, 2*256 Twinmos w/Winbond, 9600Pro, 80GB GX120 (iirc), Nokia style case

to

XP2500+ (hopefully@3200+), AquariusII WC, ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe, 2*512MB Corsair TwinX matched pair 3200 low latency, Asus 256MB 9800XT-VTD, 120GB WD1200PB, Aluminium case with a 480W Thermaltake Black Butterfly PSU.

I hope I don't spray water over all that!


T.

[DukeP]

Hmm, distilled water isnt conductive. The additives might make a difference tho?

If accidents happen, just dry throughly.

Just dont soak your capacitators, they might unwind!


~~DukeP~~

[Wombat]

You can't keep the water that pure Duke.

[GT98]

I checked out Newegg for this and price isnt bad at all....I'll have to look into it when I get a new system...one of these days

[UtwigMU]

I was considering Aquarius II and from what I gathered top of the line aircooling (see heatsinks and wattercooling setups data on Overclockers.com) such as SLK900 with powerful fan will be thereabout.

So it's more expensive than TOTL heatsink but not giving you low temperatures of a serious watter cooling setup.


SO IMHO either get SLK900 and slow 92mm fan or get serious block and pump or something like Koolance.

[Chucky Cheese]

Water Cooling

I just assembled a new workstation...here is the basic hardware(..3 weeks old)

Intel D865PERL motherboard...latest bios
Water cooled 3.2Ghz Extreme Ed. P4(..steady 20 dgs. C)
2GB Corsair Pro memory(..4 sticks)
Wildcat VP 990 Pro Graphics card
2 21.3" TFT Panels(DVI-D) - Samsung 210T
Western Digital Raptor SATA Disk(BOOT)

the cooling is the Aquarius III...very nice! but not an extreme cooler.

Aquarius III

my stock fan ran the cpu at 40 deg. C doing 2D and about 47 to 52 deg. C when i ran 3Dmark 2003 for an hour. now when i run 3dmark it gets up to 39 deg C.

i am running a 10 to 3 mix of automotive antifreeze(3) and distilled water(10)...per thermaltakes "suggestion".

cc