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Kingwin AWC-1

CrimandEvil said:
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/super_cooling/kingwin/arcticliquidcooler/index.htm
For alittle more then $100 USD you could built your own watercooling setup.
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do you have any links to a good site that sells everything I would need? or maybe a good thread on here... I'm slowly looking through them all, but there is a LOT of information :eek:
nahyah said:
wow they do not look same at all
http://www.sharkacorp.com/Merchant2...SOS&Product_Code=ec-wc-201&Category_Code=kits
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lol... yeah, someone obviosly rebranded the other there :p
 
I recently bought the kingwin system... And so far I really like it. I haven't had the system set up and runnning to much. I have been to busy and I have been having issues with my keyboard but I should be up and running soom hopefully I will get a chance to post some pics and temps when I get a change to play.

But I found it really easy to set up and build. I think it would be a nice system for a beginner. I bought to use in my sff system...
 
Cool, have you been using the video card waterblock? Or did you just stick with the stock one?
 
Yeah I have been sort of.

I have a nforce2 chipset and currently no video card... so at the moment I have the video block rigged to cool the north bridge.
 
well that works... If I use the kingwin setup with a 6800gt [either BFG, leadtek or galaxy] would I want to bother with this video card block [and void my warranty I'm sure]? I guess I could just use it in another place as you have...

EDIT: and another very newbie question... if I use the kingwin setup do I need any fans in my case? If so, where?
 
after shipping costs I would probably be better off buying from the Canadian store I linked above... I think it is somewhere in TO, so I might be able to just drop in

darkstar7: how quiet does it run?
 
I just got one of these. (first time wet!)

Slightly disappointed with the performance of the unit.

My temps actually went UP. used to be 38 idle 42 load, now its 40 idle 42 load... (GPU being cooled with the same water).

Not disappointed in watercooling overall, as my loudest part is now the fan in my PSU which WILL be replaced soon... then it'll just be the noisy raid-0 I can hear.


the unit is very close to silent when on low.
I found the included temperature diode kind of useless, also the fan on the 2ndary radiator has NO SHROUD AT ALL. built one for it out of duct-tape and tossed an orange volcano-11 refugee fan onto it. two seperate speed controls, but with both of them on "air-raid" level, idle temp is 35... (load testing right now, actually.)

I'm fairly sure my temps could go lower. I was afraid to cut these tubes, so they're way too long (restriction++), and I'm using generic thermal goo instead of AS5. Radiator is also sitting outside the case (duct-tape shroud makes it hard to find a spot to stick it), and is the lowest point in the loop. I think my flow may increase if I put it on equal level with the rest of the loop....

Now the flow is the big concern here... I let this thing run in a soda-bottle res when i first got it to play with it while bleeding... pulled the feeder tube out of the liquid in the bottle and.... drip? flow rate is horrible, the water was trickling from the hose, I think I could have gotten more flow by siphoning it from the same height. still seems to be doing its job though...

Oh and they don't ever actually tell you what kind of tubing it is, other than "vinyl" i can measure it myself, but dollars to dimes its going to be impossible to find stuff with this tubesize.

Can I just toss another pump in the loop and call it good? the 2 rads and blocks don't suck all THAT much...


Is it an excellent water cooling solution? *shrug* not really
is it worth a 90 dollar (+shipping) try at quieting down a monsterbox you don't plan to OC? why yes, yes it is. very complete kit. Instructions are in CLASSIC horrible engris too.

i wouldn't reccommend this to anyone looking to do anything OTHER than build a quieter (or sff) PC, or complete n00bs who don't care about OC'ing, just want to be the talk of the LAN.



Also, it has a high-pitched beep when you turn the system on, bugs the hell out of me.


temps as of now? 2C colder than my aircooling was (with SAME noise level, on high) or 3C ABOVE my aircooling was, but completely silent.

I can't measure my vidcard temps though, I'm sure thats adding a LOT of heat to the loop (9800Pro @ XT speeds). CPU would probably be better on it's own.
 
Hi all. First time poster here.

I just purchased this cooler which is my first foray into watercooling. It is going into my Antec Sonata case on a P4C 3.2 GHz and an ATI Radeon 9800pro (for now).

I have one question about the suggested water flow. The diagrams show the water flows out from the 5 1/4 mounted main radiator unit ---> GPU ---> CPU ---> secondary radiator ---> main radiator.

I was thinking that the more proper water flow might be 5 1/4 mounted main radiator unit ---> GPU ---> secondary radiator ---> CPU ---> main radiator. This way the water gets cooled in between GPU and CPU.

Any thoughts or recommendations on this?
 
in theory it sounds good, you might want to try it. i would, however, feel uncomfy running the water to my cpu last as oppose to being first in the loop to be cooled.
 
Actually the "extra" radiator seems to be the primary one.

The fan on the pump unit is small and noisy, but doesn't move a large amount of air. I built a duct-tape shroud for the standalone rad, and it is FAR more effective at controlling the temps than the one in the pump unit is.

stock, they just have the fan mounted directly onto the fins of the rad. you can't even feel air being moved through it by putting your hand on the other side... needs a shroud badly.

my sequence is pump/rad>cpu>rad>gpu>pump/rad


i really need to cut these tubes, anyone think that will actually decrease my temps or increase the flow rate? the pump in this thing is TEENY.
 
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