Wet and Chilly Chips / Water Cooling

[GNEP]

I'm thinking of going the watercooling route, as I like to have a bit of a fiddle with my bits... and having gotten my secondary machine as near-silent as I think it's possible to be with the addition of a Seasonic Super Tornado PSU (which is excellent btw), I want to move on to the main machine, which still has to be turned off when we want a quiet house (I am VERY sensitive to noise).

Anyway, does anyone have any experience with Wet and Chilly Chips ? They look to have some nice, well-engineered and thought out bits and I have heard good things said of them...

I would also mount the radiator outside or at a window, so no fans would be necessary during the winter I reckon. (Essentially I see one of the prime benefits of water cooling not as a way of getting the chip much cooler, but as a transmission mechanism to move the heat where I want it/can deal with it)...

[rylan]

If you plan on having a long run of hose to go to a radiator, you'll probably have to use a bigger waterpump.

[GNEP]

Not a particularly long run - only a few extra feet to the window

From what I've read, WACC's pump can easily handle what I need it to do...

[GNEP]

Seems like their latest kit has just been reviewed:

http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/case_cool/other/water/wetchill/rev2/

[GNEP]

Well, I have the kit and it's all installed. Now I have a nice quiet and cool setup (although the faster HDD needs a bit of silencing treatment now). It's actually a very nice set of bits. The most ingenious is the CPU block fixing - hard to describe but basically you do a big nut up against a bracket and it pushes the block evenly down onto the cpu. Very clever and simple.

Now I have a question to those with Parhelia experience. The bloke at WACC chucked in a GPU block as well, and I wouldn't mind giving that a go.

BUT. The GPU block is circular with a diameter of 45mm. The Parhelia's heatspreader is 40mmx40mm from what I read, and so if I used the block, the corners of the heatspreader would be poking out. Do I understand things correctly if I assume that the actual die for the chip only covers the centre of the heatspreader, and so I would still be fine to use the GPU waterblock? One set of mounting holes seems to be in the right place so that bit shouldn't be a problem...

TIA

Gnep

[GNEP]

Here's the CPU block, for interest:

[GNEP]

And the GPU block which I want to try and put on the Parhelia. Top view:

[GNEP]

And the important bit - the bottom :

[Rigel]

HDD cooler and noise reduction:

http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/zm2hc1.htm

I use it in my rig, it works excelent and looks cool. :^)
It only reduce vibrating noises though, not normal spinning noises unless they cause vibrations.

[GNEP]

Hmmm I think I'd need something more like the SilentDrive enclosure:

http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php

But back to the immediate: anyone with any thoughts on using the slightly-too-small waterblock with the P?

Perhaps I should look through the old "watercooling the parhelia" and "replacing the HSF on the parhelia" threads to refresh my memory... I think Mutz used a slightly undersized air cooler on his...

[Rigel]

My slightly undersized round HS w/fan works nice

[GNEP]

Great - thanks Rigel.

I think that the amount poking out at the corners will be more than yours if you're using the Titan TTC-CUV2AB, but it looks like I've found the answer.

Greebe here:

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&postid=307680

mentions that the Parhelia's GPU die size is ~15mm x 12mm in which case I should have no problems at all

Looks llike I've found the next mini-project Might cut up an old Al heatsink for ramsinks whilst I'm at it if I can be bothered (no need to overclock the GPU).

[Technoid]

Originally posted by GNEP
Hmmm I think I'd need something more like the SilentDrive enclosure:

http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php

Why do you want an HDD boiler???

[GNEP]

That's what worries me Tech. It's just that the HDD is one of the loudest things in the case and that bothers me Any other suggestions?

[Rigel]

What kind of noise does it make?