Wavemaster Water cooling

[civic00typer]

I have this wonderful wavemaster case that I don't want to hack to pieces, but I want to go water cooling.. I don't want to deal with the exos, i heard it sucks anyways... I want some pictures of some good water cooling setups done with the WaveMaster from coolermaster. I need to get some ideas, and begin planning...

 

[oldbrave]

The guys that say the EXOS sucks, are the ones that built their own and really didn't get much better perfromance that what the EXOS would have given them !
It's simple, trouble free and if you ever want to change cases it should only take about 15 min !

 

[Spidey329]

Originally posted by oldbrave
The guys that say the EXOS sucks, are the ones that built their own and really didn't get much better perfromance that what the EXOS would have given them !
It's simple, trouble free and if you ever want to change cases it should only take about 15 min !

Correction:

"The guys that say EXOS sucks, are the ones that built their own"

- True, most of the time.

"and really didn't get much better performance than what the EXOS would have given them"

- False.

A custom built water-system for HALF of the cost of the EXOS will outpace the EXOS in every temperature benchmark there is. The EXOS is a good alternate to air if you like silence. But for the people who like added performance + silence, a custom rig is good. That, or spend the $200 on a Swifty.

Koolance, Conair, ThermalTake .. they all want you to believe that their systems are up to par with what you could jimmy up in the garage. But they aren't. They're more for profit.

To get similiar EXOS performance, this is what it'd REALLY cost:

- Waterblock $30
- Pump $20
- Heatercore $15
- Tubing $10
- Fans $10
- SheetMetal (for case) $15
Total: $100

 

[Rix2357]

Try putting a peltier on an EXOS. If you spend the same amount of money, you could end up with a system that would just require a small modification to go to peltier cooling. I built my watercooling system for around $200. This was with a Swiftech Waterblock, dual 120mm heatercore, 2 papst 120mm fans at $25 each, Eheim 1250, 1/2" tygon tubing, and paid $75 to have a machine shot custom fabricate a case to fit the heatercore so I could put that on the outside like the EXOS. All it would cost to go to peltier would be to buy the peltier upgrade kit for the waterblock, peltier power supply (I ran mine off of the computer power supply, so this was at no cost), and some dielectric grease or RTV cement. So to go peltier it would be anywhere from arond $50 to $160, with the more expensive route if you get a peltier power supply.
Finally, the EXOS would be nowhere near as quiet, especially if you factor in the fact that the EXOS would melt if a peltier were put on it.

The only advantage the EXOS has is that it looks like a nicely machined product. While my external one looks a bit more home made because of the large tubing, looser machining tolerances, and etc.