My first watercooling project, comment please

[FatboyHK]

Chassis from ASUS. Technically not a good chassis, but I love the look

The bezel cover opens like those exotic racing cars

Let's make it even more like a racer! Check out my team's "sponsers":
AMD FX-60 @ 3GHz
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe (nForce4-SLIx16)
Corsair XMS-3500LLPro 1GB Module x 2 @ 228MHz 2-3-2-6
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
Thermaltake Liquid Cooling Components
Silverstone Zeus 750W PSU

and I will upgrade to Dual 8800GTXs in this christmas!

The liquid tubings are all fixed at the edge of the chassis, besides giving a tidy look it also enhance the airflow.

The chassis is actually very crowded so I have no choice but to install the pump and tank at the HDD slots.

I installed 2 radiator in this setup. The first one sit on top of the CPU, paired with a 9cm fan, which make itself look like a traditional air cooler

The second radiator is located in the first CDROM slot. It has 2 12cm fans, one seen here, under the radiator. The second one sit above the radiator.

Here is where the other fan located

Fresh air is blowed in by the front fan, cool down both radiators, and then be pull away by the rear exhuast fans

I did a mod here to cut open the back side of the chassis cover. It open up a tunnel which lead directly to radiator #2. By doing this I lowered the full-load temperature by 4 degrees

Removing the top cover unveils the exhuast tunnel

The front panel display can show coolant level and temperature. This is an old photo, I have painted the display panel into black, and upgraded to a Plextor PX-760SA SATA DVD-RW, with a black bezel

 

[Seanmounce]

Cool

 

[Arcygenical]

How are your full load temps?

Looks really nice btw!

 

[FatboyHK]

idle @ 44C
full load @ 58C

room temperature @ 24C

 

[Arcygenical]

ooh you're the one that wants to add some GPU blocks to his loop right?

You need a better radiator before you do that... Something ala: Black Ice Pro in the 120mm exhaust.

 

[bail_w]

idle @ 44C
full load @ 58C

room temperature @ 24C

temperatures are too high, may consider to take some 90 degree eblows out.

 

[FatboyHK]

ooh you're the one that wants to add some GPU blocks to his loop right?
You need a better radiator before you do that... Something ala: Black Ice Pro in the 120mm exhaust.

yes it is my first project, so I decided to go for cheap and easy stuff like Thermaltake, instead of those hardcore stuff...

I started doing more reading about water cooling recently and I see that black ice is quite popular.... it will definitely be in my next setup

 

[FatboyHK]

temperatures are too high, may consider to take some 90 degree eblows out.

what temperature should I aim for with this overclock?

 

[bail_w]

what temperature should I aim for with this overclock?

usually mid 30s idle and 40s load should be good for your setup.

 

[annaconda]

Temperatures are very high for water cooling. My thermaltake Bigwater 745 used to give me 29c idel and 35c load for my opteron 165@2.8ghz.

 

[FatboyHK]

for my case is it unhealthy or even dangerous? I heard that 60c is still ok for most AMD CPUs.

Did you place your raditator outside of your chassis? I think my problem is that all of the raditator is enclosed inside the chassis.

 

[Arcygenical]

Well, I think that's your problem too.

With proper airflow, it shoulnd't matter...

But, I wonder if you have proper airflow...

My Rad is inside my case.

Anything over 55'c is too high for overclocking. You'll be safe up to about 70c, but overclocking potential decreases geometrically after 55c.

 

[annaconda]

for my case is it unhealthy or even dangerous? I heard that 60c is still ok for most AMD CPUs.

Did you place your raditator outside of your chassis? I think my problem is that all of the raditator is enclosed inside the chassis.

You are correct, they were outside the case.