And the project has finished!

[zackbass]

My water cooling project had been delayed for a few weeks until I got my arctic frezzer resivor/pump came. If you recall, I made my former PAL-8045 into a waterblock by milling a maze into the base and soldering a new bottom on it. It took about $50 worth of brass fittings, and more than a few hours soldering with my acetylene torch to finally get the inlet and outlet to clear the fan, which is now a backup. I installed the cube radiator from Danger Den into the old HDD space in my PC-60, which already has cooling fans. The pump occupies two large bays, both of which are already unusable becasue of the large LCD PCB. The whole system has been piped in copper tubing, giving it a much cleaner and more utilitarian look than a lot of setups.

All PSU cables have been coated in black electrical tape, and the HDDs have been turned so the cable plugs face front, making the inside much cleaner than even round cables.

The CPU is running at a cool 29 degrees celcius at a little over idle. (typing this)

No overclocking results yet, as somehow my multiplier relocked (thermal expansion broke connection maybe), but as soon as I get around to it results will be posted.

Check out my pics at http://members.lycos.co.uk/zackbass1/

I'd be happy to answer any possible questions.

[mrspm2003]

Very nice job, good preffesional look. Was it hard? Like getting everything set up? It looks very time consumming, I want to water cool my system but lack the time or money

[dudewth]

That looks very nice...and cools well...good job

[zackbass]

I just got done with the full load test. After an hour of the sandra burn-in set on full priority, the temp went up to 44 celcuius according to MBM, but when I got to the BIOS is went all the way down to 32 degrees.

[zackbass]

Originally posted by mrspm2003
Very nice job, good preffesional look. Was it hard? Like getting everything set up? It looks very time consumming, I want to water cool my system but lack the time or money

Looks aren't everything, as the flow through the system is extremely restricted by the tiny copper plate inside the 8045 which forced me to make very shallow passages.

It took much more time to get the parts than to put it together, but getting all the leaks in my waterblock stopped was pretty hard. I may have gone overboard with testing it at 100psi of air, but I know the thing is rock solid now.

A water cooling system can be done with little money. I could have saved as much as $70 just my buying a retail waterblock, but the one I made is the centerpiece of the system, as I wanted to do something very different.

The system's main problem now is that I have to use a special pipe to fill it becasue the inlet is directly under the CD-ROM.

[jamesavery22]

How did you make that LCD display?

[japin]

I just got done with the full load test. After an hour of the sandra burn-in set on full priority, the temp went up to 44 celcuius according to MBM, but when I got to the BIOS is went all the way down to 32 degrees.

Nice job!

Watercooling systems have a tendency to cool off very very quickly so I am pretty sure that is why by the time you got to the bios all the temps were down so low.

[mystifmagic]

Great job Zack it turned out great. Those are darn good temps you've got there. Good Luck with it

[zackbass]

That is a Matrix Orbital unit. http://www.matrixorbital.com. It just plugs into your serial port, and gets driven by a background program. It shows me processor speed, memory free, CPU temperature, and if I have new E-Mail. I could have done the job myself, but this unit would be cheaper than something I could make with the same features.

Someday I hope to integrate a Basic Stamp II , a little tiny computer, with the unit for fan control and do some net little things.