monster radiator update

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ghost6303

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its been a long while sence i posted about this massive radiator i stole from a freezer at work. well i finaly got around to building my test bench so i took some pictures...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P6050030.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P6050029.jpg

yes that is a 5 gallon bucket for a resevoir. before that power supply died it took about 3 to 4 hours of use to heat up the water in there enough so i had to throw a block of ice in. origionaly i used cubed ice, but when the ice melts into small enough pieces they get sucked into the pump and make a horrible noise.

so instead i use a king size plastic cup from burger king to form ice blocks. one block is enough cooling for about an hour.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P60500a29.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P60s50030.jpg

but on to the good stuff...
i still need to find my spare pump and get my power supply back before it will be fully operational, but i framed up a little housing from crap wood and plumbed everything up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P6050041.jpg.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P6050046.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P6050047.jpg

this is a 10" box fan if i ever find i need some active cooling. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/P605s0029.jpg

i measures the radiator to hold about 3 and a half gallons of water. giving the whole system about 7 gallons to heat up even before i have to turn on the pump to the radiator. as soon as OCZ gets me a replacement PS il post some benchmarks.

and you may be asking does anyone really need that much cooling power? the answer is probably not, but it didnt cost me more then a couple bucks for some fittings and clamps so why the hell not. :cool:
 
That freaking thing is HUGE! Interested to see if you can get your pump to push water through it.
 
well i havnt bothered to plumb all this up in my room yet but i got that computer up and running and did some tests with just the bucket reservoir. even with a waterblock that isnt top of the line these temps are amazing, and with that volume of water it takes 6-10 hours of dual folding at home to raise the water temp from 19C (tap water temp) to around 28C. room temp is irrelevant because there is no radiator but it was around 25C today.

some screenies.....
first i went for lowest temps possible. water temp was 22-23C through out.

load
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/screen133.jpg

idle
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/screen134.jpg



then a modest overclock at 3.15ghz water temp still holding at 23C

before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/screen122.jpg

durring
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/screen123.jpg

and after
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ghost6303/my PC/screen124.jpg


every 12 hours or so i take a gallon jug of water out of the freezer and dump it in the bucket, i take the jug thats in there already and refreeze it while the other melts. one gallon of ice can cool the thing for an entire day.

i found that the difference between load temp at 3.0ghz with water at 20C and water at 35C the CPU load temp only increased from 35-37C to 41C. just goes to show how much heat water can actually absorb.
 
ghost6303 said:
...19C (tap water temp) to around 28C. room temp is irrelevant because there is no radiator but it was around 25C today.
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you're using tap water? why not buy distilled, it costs only a few dollars, and you'll never have to clean your blocks out. tap water has all that nasty stuff in it that can come out of solution, and cause problems.
 
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