Hi everyone new here!!

the moment I knew you could overclock a PC system I've been wondering about installing a watercooling system myself.
I allready had put together my own PC.

But then I realised it was pretty expensive. 250euro for a decent sytem,GPU and CPU chipset excluded(for now).

So working in a carplant I had myself made a CPU block with a CNC cuttingmachine.
Same for the GPU block with a maze heatsinkstructure and made a few addaptations to cool and fit a Nvidia 6800 vidcard.Tricky bastard, to solder the memoryblockcooling to the GPU block (see pic below).


So the easy part was done,all in a days work hihi,but now a radiator.

I salvaged the old waterboiler from my dad and made a nice box for it to fit on my PC.

Next the pump, but I bought a wet pump so I had to make a container.

It resulted in a 210x16x270mm plexi-container and holds 8 litres of demi-water.

Then a flow control,thanks boss,that holds the feed to the PC for 3 seconds and if no flow is detected PC
shutsdown.
Same when flow decreases under 1 l/min (normal flow is 2.3 l/min)

Fitted with 2 two 120mm fans(controlled).


test results temp??? waterblock (cannot display have exterior probe)

Intel P4 3.2GHz 1.5v CPU temp 32c GPU temp 29c water temp 27c
@ 3.4GHz 1.6v CPU temp 34c GPU temp 33c water temp 29c

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Looks pretty cool. Nice Job! Welcome to Pimprig. Keep up the good work

In before the "PREMOD".

BUT, dang son, that's pretty slick...and huge. I just hope you don't plan on dumping some ice cubes in there.

Quote: Originally Posted by teh_spazz In before the "PREMOD". BUT, dang son, that's pretty slick...and huge. I just hope you don't plan on dumping some ice cubes in there.

if any it would have to be distilled ice cubes!

Cant say the LAN functionality is there but alot of skill has gone into that. Awesome job!

Looks like theres somewhat of a hole at the top id kinda be worried about dust gettin in it.

Very impressive. Your off to a damn good start. Keep it up! Although Your wires are a bit messy and I bet it'll be hard for you to swap processors or Vid cards if you ever have to.

Thanks all you guys.

I don't plan going in the tank untill the pump breaksdown.
And refilling goes through small lid on top (evaporation without cover aprox. 1litre every two days, talk about dry environment,now aprox. nothing)
and when I clean the water, I let the pump pump out all the water untill it runs dry.(2 to 3 litres remain)
I plan maintenance of the blocks in 6 months.

Quote: Originally Posted by hondatuner Very impressive. Your off to a damn good start. Keep it up! Although Your wires are a bit messy and I bet it'll be hard for you to swap processors or Vid cards if you ever have to.

I know but i'm waiting to maybe upgrading to P5 ,experimenting with peltier principal, and so needing a case a bit higher.
And starting again from the top integrating all cables in inox sleeves(showerhose).
I'm quit happy with the setup , just wont to make the sucker burn, burn, faster faster.

grtz Lite_User

quite a nice job..i like the "faucet" idea; very original..

thats so cool im wona try doing that

Very nice work im enviouse of your talents, im thinkin ya need a nice piece of corral and a few gold fish to finish that pimped rig>>Mike

Other than setting a new world record for the use of elbows in a system...darn impressive. Gotta respect someone who can build their own system from scratch and wallpaper his computer room with teddy bears.

Yes, I'm having a bit of fun at your expense. But seriously, that's some great work for a first outting into water cooling. Welcome to pimprig.

Yeah I know about the many elbows and stuff.
But I work in the Paint division of an European carfactory.

It's the best material you'd ever want. And easy to connect and disconnect as often as you like.
It's pressure resit up to 8 bar so leaking is out of the question.

I have to be sure, because rig is runnuning 24/7

Thanks for comment

Grtz Lite_User