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Home Made WC setup

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GothicWombat

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Ok, here's the deal, I have this big old server case I want to mod but as i'm having trouble deciding what to do with it so i've decided to work on the one thing i know i must have when i'm done modding this case, in a wc setup. The thing is i think all the a lot of the parts for made for water cooling computers are overpriced so i was thinking of going oldschool and making my own.

so here is the plan get an aquarium/pond pump from a local petstore inclose the pump in a home made reservoir disguised as a ps, then use tubing from a local hardware store to connect it to store bought cpu and gpu blocks.

my biggest concern is the pump because although i've compared pumps from the petstore and ones on wcing sites and found extreemly superior as far as flow rate and about equal for max height i was wondering if anybody else had thought of this or ran into problems using aquarium/pond pumps in a water cooling setup?

also what inexpensive blocks do you reccomend for an amd 64 and a geforce 6800?
 
far as flow rate and about equal for max height i was wondering if anybody else had thought of this or ran into problems using aquarium/pond pumps in a water cooling setup?


The Eheims have been the gold standard for water cooling for many years. What I mean is that most other pumps are compared to the Eheims (1250 and 1050 models) to decide if the other pump is "decent". A little investigation will show you that many many "aquarium" pumps have long been used. All "work" fine with the differences mainly being in reliability, size and ease of adapting the fitting. Again the Eheims rule.

http://www.directron.com/e1250s.html

The max height is not so important btw, even if you put the pump on the floor your head height would be 6 feet at most, and since you are in a loop, meaning the return water is being feed to the pump from a height = to the height the pump raises it, your actual head is almost 0. What is important is flow rate, the rub being that most high performace blocks like high flow rates while it is best to have low flow through the rad. BUT !!!! a good block with 1/2 id tubing and a 77 bonneville heatercore for 2 x 120 mm fans or an 84-86 chevette heatercore with 1 x 120mm fan willl give you excellent results with an Eheim 1250 and that is the standard classic build it yourself cooling system. There are zillions of threads and how to's with this setup. Just do a google on "water cooling" and overclockers.com has a bunch of articles under hints and tips - watercooling you might want to look at.



I am a closed loop guy btw, I see no reason to have a reservior in the system, a T line or fill port is all you need. A res is nice for filling the system and getting the air out. It adds no cooling performance.
 
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