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"Eeek - The Dreaded Water Cooling..."

New to the Water Cooling scene but should have this...

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With me tomorrow morning. The main idea of this topic was to see if anoyne else has gone with a full blown Water Cooling system?! A bit bothered about getting a kink in the tubing and also if the f**ker bursts I will be seriously screwed in the ass. Can't seem to keep still though and I get bored if I aren't doing something new all the tim. I just hope it isn't a very expensive mistake...

Any tips for better flow for those of you have them?

It is possible, but it was too much of a tight fit for the tubes to flow properly.

Yeh i was thinking about getting just a shuttle shell and putting the pump, res and rad in there then cutting a whole in the rear of my shuttle take out the ice then viola, all is done.

Colin

I've watercooled a shuttle. It didn't exactly fit so the pump had to go outside.

I have put water cooling kits in both a athlon and a p4 and thought it was far better than any type of air cooling, Never had any leak problems either, even thinking about water cooling my little shuttle, The only thing i would say is to use some sort of antfreeze to stop corrosion inside unit, also make sure you get ll bubbles out of system, oh and build the kit into the case and run it for a while before putting any componants in it.

Colin

After destroying the mobo (I tried to install a silent heatsink to the onboard chipset, but got a little... stuck with the old one), I decided it all wasn't worth the hassle. So I sold off all the working parts, including the watercooling stuff, and got myself a laptop. Far more carefree.

Icarus mk2 wrote:
> Hmmm, watercooling. Sounds familiar.

LOl!!

Icky Im sure it does... what happened to that machine anyway?

Hmmm, watercooling. Sounds familiar.

Damarus wrote:
> I don't see the point in water cooling myself (unless you 've got an
> glass panel case with all the fancy lighting inside, which you may
> have) because you can buy a good £30 - £40 fan that'll
> keep things just as cool and in some cases quieter.

It's not all about getting things quiet though. The only way to get close to the temperatures you get from water cooling would be to use a hefty thermalright heatsink and a high cfm fan like a vantec tornado. And those things are called tornado for a reason.

Nice one, the only thing you can do to avoid kinking is to either use tygon tubing (though i dont know if you can because your kit has push on fittings) or just make sure that your loops arent too tight. Failing that a few jubilee clips from B&Q will help to reinforce the tubing shape.

It will probably say in the instructions that you should leak test first but it's worth repeating again.

I don't see the point in water cooling myself (unless you 've got an glass panel case with all the fancy lighting inside, which you may have) because you can buy a good £30 - £40 fan that'll keep things just as cool and in some cases quieter.