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  1. December 1st, 2009, 11:48 AM #1
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    Watercooling the beast

    I made a bad choice of cooler when I built my new rig recently:

    http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=241532

    Because of that I have been thwarted in my overclocking adventures So I've decided to go the watercooling route, and have bought Zalman Reserator XT kit.

    http://www.zalman.co.kr/Eng/product/...ad.asp?idx=185

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coo...erator-xt.html

    Pics coming soon
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    Gegassing the unit:



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    From the rear, howing the degassing tube:

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    Degassing is much easier using a bench power supply, otherwise it means disconnecting the motherboard connector and jumping it:

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    So, how much cooler does it run?
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    Does that go on a computer or a jet fighter aircraft?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fink View Post
    So, how much cooler does it run?
    Don't know yet, I'm doing the photos in real time - filling it up with coolant an degassing is as far as I've got. I anticipate taking the motherboard out and fitting the water block tomorrow.
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    What are you filling it with?
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    It came with a 250ml bottle of antifreeze/anti-corrosion liquid, which is diluted with 1 litre of distilled water.
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    Does that go on a computer or a jet fighter aircraft?
    He needs another one for his mini-Windscale power plant setup for the computer. Needs more valves, gauges, etc. to really look mean though.
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    Well this is what I had in mind eventually

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    OK, after a long hard morning, the beast lives again. I am now much wiser in how to go about setting up a watercooled rig, not least of which is to have lots of kitchen towel handy

    Initial results are very impressive, on stock clock and voltages I have got an immediate 9C drop in CPU temp (from ~44C down to 35C at idle) I'm going to let the Arctic Silver bed in for a day or so before stress testing.

    Pics to come later.
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