Recent content by Sideroxylon

I could use some new stuff :cool:

I'm in too :cool:

I've been using acrylic bay res' for years and never had a problem. Like was said, just don't screw things down too tight and you'll be fine. Also keep in mind that acrylic and alcohol don't mix. As far as fans for your PA rad, one set of fans will do just fine. One of the reasons those rads...

All the 120mm rads are bigger than the fans that mount to them. Maybe you could put one rad inside and one rad outside?

Most loops only have a difference of a couple degrees between the inlet and the outlet of the rad. Hottest water going to the inlet and the coolest water exiting the rad. So, a couple degrees difference probably won't make much of a difference for your vid card temps. Typically you just want to...

Aren't you going to wc you vid card? I have the 2 back fans on mine bringing air in. I have a piece of cardboard that I'm using to direct the air onto the mobo right at the cpu socket area. I have no fans on top and my case temp is sitting at 40c with 23c ambient.

Adding another rad doesn't always equal lower temps. If your current rad isn't completely saturated then adding another rad won't help with temps. In your case it probably will since the stealth rads aren't very good and the PA series are. Actually the PA120.2 will cool better than the stealth...

If your going to have 2 pumps in series then they need to be the same kind of pump. You can't have 2 different flow rates. You'll end up starving one or the other. If you did add another pump I would be surprised if you saw much of a difference. What's your flow look like now? If it looks...

Sorry. Didn't really document the build. Feel free to pm me with any questions though. :)

Bought the grill from Home Depot. It was actually mesh to go over the gutters of your house. Used the stock grills to make a template out of wood. Once that was done it was a piece of cake to make the new grills. My temps used to go up by about 3-5c when I put the side on with the stock grills...

Agreed. Great job. I think I would have had both rads pulling fresh air, especially since you have that center grill for exhaust. Still, very nice external box.

The stealth rads are not known for their performance. Mounting the rad in the bottom is a snap with a couple galvanized brackets from Home Depot. Drill a couple holes in them to match your rad and couple in the bottom of the case and your set. Don't have any pics of the brackets themselves but...

But it isn't [H]ard. ;) If he leaves it stock he'll be fine. If he oc's, like he says he wants to, he will not be happy with the temps he ends up with.

You are obviously confused on how radiators work. They do not magically wisk heat away. They simply transfer it to the air being passed through it. Their performance is directly related to the air temp passing through them. As usual Arcy is the voice of reason here. I would think his...

One of my first builds was with a setup like this and it doesn't work very well at all. A rad can only cool the water down to the temp of the air that is passing through it. So your second rad will only be able to cool things down to the temp of the air exiting the first rad which will not be...