my new heatercore. :o)

[weapon--]

I was watching the temps on my northbridge the other nite and I decided the temps were too high. after some testing, I concluded the rad in the h2o loop was lacking so I decided to bump up the size of the heatercore.

pic of course:

lol. j/k on the n.bridge part.

it will take 4 120mm fans per side.

the weapon monstercore...

 

[maxkilling]

lol

Nice length dude, but seriously you can poke someones eye out with that.


Id prefer half the length, twice the thickness

 

[syztem]

i can fold mine in half... twice

 

[kronchev]

wtf is that from, a semi?

 

[Scroatdog]

Which case are you planning on mounting that beast??

 

[weapon--]

Originally posted by syztem
i can fold mine in half... twice

nah -- it is the same one (or two... ) that I always use.

Originally posted by Scroatdog
Which case are you planning on mounting that beast??

hmmm....

this one:

or this one:

 

[-=iNsAnE=-]

i gotta see how this turns out

keep us updated on your progress

 

[OneMadPoptart]

What car/monster truck/vehicle did you get that from?

Just curious

 

[rogue_jedi]

i want one really though, do you NEED that much cooling? (and yes, i think i know the answer)

(slightly more than a little) off topic: where do you get your brazing supplies/which ones do you get/what do you braze with? my fucking waterblock leaked on my motherboard and i think it killed it (or maybe putting it in a case made it so the fans spin and the disk spins up but it does nothing, other than telling me the memory was bad - memory which, btw, runs fine at pc4000 in my brother's p4 - with 2 different chips) sorry, i'm just pissed right now.

looks good.

 

[Giblet Plus!]

Is that a dual pass core? If it is, that means it's going to be twice as restrictive as a normal "double" sized heatercore.

You should convert it to single pass.

 

[mustang_steve]

Yeah, where did you get that?

I might want one for watercooling all my PCs once I get the cash to purchase a miniature 4-post rack and rackmount all my PCs and audio gear.

Would be too slick......The Lord of the Cores.....ONE CORE.....TO COOL THEM ALL!!! MUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......


...yes, I need to lay off the pipe...but it's so tasty....

 

[weapon--]

Originally posted by OneMadPoptart
What car/monster truck/vehicle did you get that from?

Just curious

it is two separate cores - I took the tanks off, lined up the channels and brazed them back together.

Originally posted by rogue_jedi
i want one really though, do you NEED that much cooling? (and yes, i think i know the answer)

(slightly more than a little) off topic: where do you get your brazing supplies/which ones do you get/what do you braze with? my fucking waterblock leaked on my motherboard and i think it killed it (or maybe putting it in a case made it so the fans spin and the disk spins up but it does nothing, other than telling me the memory was bad - memory which, btw, runs fine at pc4000 in my brother's p4 - with 2 different chips) sorry, i'm just pissed right now.

looks good.

brazing and soldering...
if you don't want to jump all the way up to brazing temps, you can use Harris' staybrite8 and get a pretty damn strong solder joint. It is generally used with stay clean flux (also from harris)

Stay-Brite 8 Silver Bearing Solder
Properties
Composition Tin & Silver
Solidus (melting point) 430° F
Liquidus (completely fluid) 535° F
Plastic range 105° F
Joint strength: copper
Sleeve joint (in tension) 15,000 PSI
Shear strength 11,000 PSI
Electrical conductivity 17.1
Color Bright silver, non-oxidizing

^good stuff.

brazing -
I use 15% silver brazing rods (i.e. Stay-Silv 15).
another good option is Dynaflow.
^these generally dont require flux on copper to copper joints. if you are making a copper to stainless or copper to brass joint, Stay-Silv Flux works.

check your soldering/brazing technique here:
http://www.jwharris.com/jwref/procs/

any good welding supply shop should have the stuff listed above. hvac supply stores will have both as either is used heavily in refrigeration.

home depot used to carry some brazing rods -- check for ones used on copper that melt around 1300 deg F.
brazing rods from home depot online:
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDU...ID=ccdladckmjdgdilcgelceffdfgidgjn.0&MID=9876

torch that will handle 90% of waterblock brazing/soldering jobs:
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDU...ID=ccdladckmjdgdilcgelceffdfgidgjn.0&MID=9876
("Swirl action flame heats up work fast" and tears the ass out of your propane/mapp supply gets the job done though)
the ts7000 or the ts4000 will do.

welders depot:
http://store.weldingdepot.com/cgi/weldingdepot/15xxx24.html

Originally posted by Giblet Plus!
Is that a dual pass core? If it is, that means it's going to be twice as restrictive as a normal "double" sized heatercore.

You should convert it to single pass.

the RLQO pump can blast water thru it as it is but I am going to convert it to parallel single pass later. I couldn't refuse testing this way before changing it over though.