Recent content by Pherret

Its Ol skool. PPL used to do almost entire WC loops out of copper pipe. Though they would make their own blocks back in the day too, where the pipes would solder directly to the blocks. Its a very industrial look, but hard to get the measurements exact if your cooling more than the cpu. Or...

A fairly easy thing to do is take a dremmel w/ cutoff wheel and grind yourself a slot in the screw head for a flathead driver to grip. But too late :cool:

well.. how efficient is a compressor for getting cold air? How many watts does your typical window unit draw? Id think you could power many many pelts with that much power. By then the cold air output would be fairly similar. Peltiers may not be efficient but they make up for that with...

As far as I know an ungrounded plate will reflect waves while a gounded one will absorb it. Ive never had problems with 2 next to each other, hell I have a friend with 4 next to each other.. talk about an EM storm :) Do you turn them on one after the other? I would wonder if it has...

Yep Ive used duct tape for a long time.. Ive also done the alu plate idea, I however just tapped it out to 6-32 threads (standard coarse thread pc screw) instead of riveting.

The side panel is on ;)

Wow, the whole anti alu thing is way out of hand.

I am clueless as to why noone even thought of peltiers You could build a peltier docking station small enough to still be portable. They are great for spot cooling areas like the intakes of the laptop fans. Just need peltiers, heatsinks for hot and cool side, power supply and some...

Since it only uses 1 80mm fan it's realy a waste honestly. You could probably get just as good or better temps with a 120mm HSF. for that price you would need to go DIY style to get decent performance.

Did you use o-rings? I thought those were the style with no taper so they use o-rings for sealing.

6600GTs are getting cheap. I too came from a 9800Pro. I was pissed when I bought the 6600GT because they rated the cards similarly, but It seems to handle the newer games great. After I upgraded to 1G ram the card was dishing out more. My sys was too slow for it! Overclocking does help too...

What realy gets agrevating is when you see measurements in tube OD size. Id doesn't freaking matter what the OD size of the tubing is!! Real easy to get it wrong when you accidentally get 1/2" od and 1/2" id stuff. Basically 1/2" od is probably 3/8" id. Ive had issues with Frozen cpu...

I know what you mean, My dieing vid fan pretty much pushed me into WC, Right now it sounds like an average aquarium setup, but probably because the tubing is pushing the pump up against the case. Ive got some softer tubing already to prevent this, but havn't put it in. That coupled with...

Well the reserator has an internal pump that should be quieter than an external one. If you don't think you have luck with fans what makes you think you will have luck with pumps?

Yes you want to reserve all the pump's power for the WB. Back to topic; here's my suggestion.. Mount the pump on top of the hdd rack with the inlet pulling straight out of the res. Res out, pump, rad, cpu, nb, bottom vga, top vga, res in.