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it really wont matter much (actually not at all imo). Your choice of tubing size and routing, make it as short a possible by arranging your components carefully in your case for short straight runs, will matter more. Its best to have the pump as low (bottom) as possible so there will never...

Have not run prime in a long time, does it exercise the GPU ? I dont think it does, so your CPU is screaming crunching numbers while the GPU is doing little or nothing. Actually with that going on I would expect your GPU water block to eventually heat up the GPU to your loop water...

hate to say it friend, but you are kinda borked. The specs give no mention of the motherboard manufacturer or model number and it is critical information you need as it appears the e-machines people have not installed a motherboard that has the FrontSideBuss (FSB) speed settings enabled...

In my opinion based on more than 5 years of water cooling Keep in mind the main fact. Nothing you can get your hands on at any reasonable price, or even high prices, performs better than pure water. Anything thing else should be added to solve a particular problem. In an all copper...

Good show, for a while there I thought you got lost coming home from the pub.

Loosen up you memory timings I dont think its your video card either. You are asking a lot of pc3200 memory.

er, no. go here - http://www.c-systems.ca/ click on user manuals, then the mulit pump users guide. It applies to anyones pump and is the best engineering solutions I have seen. The pros and cons of serveral setups are discussed with nice diagrams. As they point out, do NOT...

"I mean why would they sell this product and say you can keep it in your system for a good two years without worrying about damaging your components " Because most people were asleep in science class and believe anything they read and will throw money away. I am sure it will meet their...

Dear LORD !!! For love of God anyone NOT willing to throw their processor in the garbage can and is reading this.. Put the thermal interface material on ! "air has low electrical conductivity hence low thermal conductivity" In the context of this discussion this is basically...

hmmm, well thats a tough question to answer, in fact noone can answer it exactly. You have some good things going for you, good case airflow apparently. Your memory will probally be the first limit you hit. Somewhere around 215 FSB it will probally start having issues unless you...

Now that you have eliminated the memory I tend to agree with SpoogeMonkey, if you go to DFI-street.com (thinks thats close) you will see right off that the DFI support people wont even want to talk to you till you get a 24pin supply with dual 12V rails capable of at least 28 amps (think...

A look at evercools web site confirms my suspicions. what is "max airflow " ? I bet $10 as soon as you put the filter on it to create a little backpressure the airflow is 50CFM or less. There is no P/Q curve (speed vs CFM vs Airflow) so one can determine (ar at least take a guess) what...

Well I am an old cranky engineer, not a social worker. In my professional opinion its a damn lie. If those specs were anywhere near true they whould not have to advertise those fans Every computer company and enthusiast would be camped at the factory doors. Do not look at sales...

hmmm well the idea is to put a little in the cooling loop of the computer please do NOT drink it. I have run plain steam distilled water with in my machine for 3 years without any additive and have had no issues. Everything was new and clean when I first installed it, and I do not have...

Ahhhh, I know just the fans you need, and cheap too ! But I can not.t tell you - it's a secret. Define High Define Low Or since you dont have any design goals/spec other than some nebulus spec terminology you have picked up, (as high CFM and low noise are mutually exclusive...

On your other fans, sounds like some lubrication is in order. They could be gonners but a lot of times the lubrication has dried out. Peel up one side of the sticker up that is on the fan (feel first, you should feel in the middle where the hole for the fan shaft and thrust bearing are...

"I went into BIOS and set it to run fans at full speed if the temperatures broke some ridiculously low amount, like 35 celsius. It still refuses to spin at anything resembling acceptable speeds.. so slow, in fact, that BIOS reported it as turning "0 RPM" at all times when connected to either of...

That will work fine reilly, my comment would be that the "sheild" with AS you are putting around the temp probe will make the response time to temp changes slower. However as you mentioned temps in a watercooling system dont change much after the system comes up to heat and dont usually change...

Barbed fitting have the barbs with greater than 1/2 dia at the top of the ridges. My hose 1/2 ID was plenty snug but I use some odd hose. It depends on the "softness" of the hose. With 3/8, soft hose will be no problem with fitting on the barbs but your pump could actually collaspe the...

Old Faithfull DD maze 3 $50 heater core 11 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/2 $22 surplus Gould commercial lab pump $32 surplus 6 x 80mm SanyoDenki fans $12 velleman relay kit $10 1/2 in ID Wire-Reinforced PVC Tubing 10 ft $12.50 fan shroud material $3 clamps, tee, misc $10...

One mans getto is another mans engineering prototype. Several multi thousand dollar pieces of telecom equipment started out looking a LOT like that ! Good show !

O_o most of them have the push pins that go thru a hole in the motherboard and have barbs that open up on the backside to "catch" it on. Can be a real pain as you need to take the board out to squeeze the barbs together so the push pins will back out of the holes. If you have a small...

goggle both of them forget the people selling the stuff, look for comments on forums. Keep in mind that people with no problems dont post nearly as often as people who do have an issue. Dont dwell on what the complaint is, look for comments on how well the company responded (if at all...

Those temps are not out of line with the stock intel heatsink. I would have left the AS5 and cleaned off the TIM but it probally would not have changed a lot :D the XP90 with a med speed panaflow is very popular, I just build stock intel machines so cant say much more than that.

you can dip the ends of the hose in hot water for a min or two to soften them up to help slip them on if you have trouble.

Without more details of you pump and block etc it is impossible to make a rational decision based on performance between the two. However with todays restrictive (high water velocity- read low flow) blocks the difference in using smaller diameter hose is not as much as it used to be. As an...

I did a goggle on "K7N2GM2 Vcore" and found a german site (forum in english) that has some modded bios. trouble is I am not sure if that is your board. They confirm that one cannot add voltage selection if its not in the original bios however they have some modded bios that might help with...

(please excuse if I mention something you are already aware of, I like to explain thing in detail to eliminate confusion and help other less knowledgeable readers.) yep, thats the hardware mod thing I mentioned. You need to find where someone did a mod for your board as that is for the...

just saw your other post, now I am confused. at least I know you are using a mATX msi nforce 2 board. Yes your temps are little high, pull the top off the case and blow a fan in there and see if you can get through 3D mark. stock AMD heatsink ?

hmmm, if I understand what you are wanting to do.... If you cant change it in the bios I doubt the board has the ability to change the Vcore via software. I think you are out of luck unless there is a hardware modification for you board and even then you could not change it thru software...

susprising small, even the cheap ones are within a deg C. I hate to get you off on another tangent but most of the chips inside the display are very accurate, its the components in the calibration circuit that are usually of low toleracnce, for instance instead of using a percision 1% or...

"on the other side of the heatsink for the chipset, there is the fins, when i took off the fins, there were maybe 10 little chip looking things that it was attached to with the nasty thermal tape thingy.. i was wondering if it would be ok to just leave it as it is without the heatsink, or if i...

EPS was an actual spec for servers and as far as I know there is no spec for "SLI/PCI-E " power supplies other than marketing BS and recommendations from the video card makers. You asked for my thoughts, it aint broke, dont fix it.

might be fun to put the rads in parallel and see what happens.

imo ( I dont own that board ) you are exactly correct. The software is junk, I would trust the bios to be closer to the truth. This is a very common problem.

hmm reread your last post, nope as long as there is any ice left in the water it sould be very very close to freezing if you let it sit long enought to stabilize. My best guess is that the error is not linear. Since its not a hard thing to do, try it again with lots of ice, little...

sure you can trim it, its just tape, just be very carefull to cut just the tape. /giggle check it with a thermometer, who checks the thermometer for accuracy ? Lab thermometers are a bit pricey. Again I am not going to explain the physics but an icewater bath is EXTREAMLY close...

Flip the damn thing over please.

imo flip the panaflow over so it blows that cool air sucked in from the side fan down into your heatsink. At least try it and see what your temps do.

It has ALWAYS been "Buyer Beware".