taking the plung into sub zero

Josh · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

oooooo...im cold just looking at that thing

You may get a small overclock if you are lucky....

hats of to you

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meobius · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:

well i got all that i need to get the vapo running, psu isn't strong enough so i have to boot system and then turn on the vapochill, otherwise system won't post. Good thing my new ocz 520 Modstream is on it's way...(and will most likely get something even bigger later... looking at 680 thermaltake.
So far in the bios the cpu is running at 4c.. still haven't recieved my watercooling setup... my case is definately too small to fit all this so i'm designing a new one that will be able to hold all of it.
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-.-PhanTom-.- · TweakNOOB Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 136

Is it really neccessary to watercool the hdd's? or is it just to go for as little air-cooling as possible?

Nice pics... but what a cable mess

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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

just one word of caution on the psu issue, look at the +12v rail and see how much amperage is available there. As the system that you are trying to run needs alot of the +12v rails.

Good luck and I cant wait to see the benchies from that beast.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

As far as I know, most heavy duty water-cooling rigs like that need a seperate PSU to actually run.......I know the Vapochill units generally do, they simply draw too much power to run off of the same PSU as your main machine. In fact, I think the case the unit typically comes in has two PSU's.
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2old2care · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject:

Your gonna get your chops busted on that one FnF....

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Ham_fisT · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Oh, I'll agree to that. Distilled water conducts electricty LESS than tapwater, but it still conducts it.

I just don't like to mislead people into thinking that it's any safer than any other liquid in a water-cooling setup, or any other using electricity. It isn't. We're talking a matter of a split second difference here.

Anyway, isn't the idea to keep the water IN the water cooling system? In which case, distilled is definitely better for keeping the water inside.........

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2old2care · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:18 am Post subject:

Distilled is the way to go...it is not very expensive, and has nothing in it but H2O. There is more than one reason, but charged particles (ions) is the most significant. BUT, don't confuse de-ionized water with distilled. Distilled is the better choice.

BTW water is an insulator....air is an insulator....they both can conduct electricity...it's just a matter of at what potential vs. distance.
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alasdair2000 · TweakNOOB Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 136 Location: Chicago

Distilled water has a conductivity 100-500 times less than ordinary water (depends on what ordinary water you use).
So should an accident happen, the current flowing through the water would be that number of times smaller.

Obviously any amount of extra current applied in the wrong place is not good but the current, the less damage it will potentially do to you and your valuable property.

Unfortunately you cannot simply keep purifying the water until conductivity is near zero because then the water becomes a corrosive. And will eat through stainless steel and glass! :)

meobius · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject:

No worries about PSU... i got a 680Thermaltake to take care of all my psu worries (which i was starting to have...)
As far as water goes... still waiting on it, haven't received it yet...
got the vapo all rigged up... cpu hits zero (lower prob it won't read lower)
haven't tried much with it since i have to sleeve and fix all the cableing first
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