THERMALTAKE BIGWATER COMPUTER WATER COOLING SYSTEM

[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

Please feel free to leave your questions here.

Review can be found here:

http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/bigwater/

Pricing on this complete water cooling kit can be found here:

http://tweaknews.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=4577293
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Chunter · TweakNOOB Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

thx for the good review of the kit..good read..i have one question though ..would it be possible to encompass the graphic card as well ?
I'd like to get the Bigwater as i'm a big thermaltake fan and for the prices i've seen it for its a steal,but ideally i'd like to do the graphic card at the same time..and ideas ?

Chunter

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mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

Thermaltake makes a GPU waterblock. They also have some nice accessories like a flow indicator, water temp monitor, coolant level device etc.
Check their website, and then use the shopping button at the top left of this page to find the best price. I'll look a little myself to see if I can help more.

A gpu or chipset waterblock from another company may work also, just make sure that it will connect to the 1/4" tubing.

It doesn't matter much, but you should probably route the fluid from the pump to the CPU block to the GPU to the radiator.

Good luck and let me know if I can help.

mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

CL-W0038 is the Tt part #. It seems to be widely available.

ktdc_lb · TweakNOOB Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

Hi there,
Great review.
I have the Thermaltake Bigwater. I was wondering, I have mounted it inside at the rear of my Xaser III case, and wanted to know what the direction of airflow from the Bigwater should be?
Any advice would be great.

mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

If I read you right, you should be exhausting air from the interior of the case, through the radiator and then to the outside of the case.

ktdc_lb · TweakNOOB Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

Thank you,
I have flipped the fan so air is going out of my case it was wrong but sorted now.
Thanks again.

mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

mastafunk · TweakNOOB Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Hey guys i just registered especially to share my story. I baught the big water liquid colling system around june. It worked very well and i could overclock and miraculously was stable when gaming. One day i turned the computer on, left the room for about an hour, came back and the screen was showing white lines flying acrossthe screen from left to right, (looked like the old Starfield screensaver). I had no idea what i was looking at so i shut he system down. I looked inside and i was a small puddle of green goo on my 256mb BFG 6800 GT OC. First words that came out of my mouth were "WHAT THE FU%#!!." Anyways, i took the waterblock out and noticed that on the acrylic "neck" part where the metal nut sits on was cracked. That meant that te liquid gradually slipped through the grooves of the scrylic, through the cracks, and onto the card. It has about 5 cracks all around the 1 cm acrylic neck, ON EACH NECK! I RMA the thing and was somehow shipped 2 waterblocks from thermaltake, so now i have 2, lol. And guess what, the second one has 1 little crack in the same area, not deep enough for the liquid to leak out from there. Now i have the 3rd waterblock installed and i am buying the Blue Orb II just in case i see a single crack, i'll tear it down the go back to air. Isn't life wonderful?

mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

Make sure thak you're not tightening the nuts down too tightly. With the nuts at proper tension, you should be able to just barely wiggle the block.

On the other hand, I've heard that blocks from other manufacturers with acrylic tops are prone to cracking as well. I've always thought that this was caused by inproper installation, but I have no direct knowledge of this.

Mine seems to be working fine, but I'll keep an eye on it.

Good luck, and welcome to TweakNews!

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:37 am Post subject:

^^^ that is one of the reasons I use the 6000 series of cpu blocks from swiftech. I know others have had that same problem and have switch to other types of blocks as well.
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Noxide · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject:

Were you able to replace your 6800? Thats what happend to me. I think with the right combination of tention and heat the arcrylic craps out...on some. I have it in my wifes PC and its great. Very quiet.

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