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The Wal Mart fish tank is going to be sitting outside the case in the back. I've got to cut holes tonight for the tubes to be taken into the case. I just found out that my waterblock will actually be here tomorrow so I get to start leak testing it sooner than I though. w00t!
I got the watercooling equipment hooked up last night and running with no leaks thus far. A great tip to watercoolers setting up a new system.... pliers! Last time I used these plastic tube clamps they were good... but not great. This time I tightened them down as much as possible with pliers. After playing with them for a while to make sure it wasn't going to cut in the tubing, I found out this was the absolute best way to put these on.
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Not that it seems anyone has cared lately but I guess I'll go ahead and finish this up.
Black Sunshine is complete. I've got the DVDROM coming this afternoon and, after painting it, all hardware will be inside.
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Here it is with everything on. While the inside might look nice and uncluttered... here's a pic without the side panel on.
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I don't really care about the top since that doesn't have to be cooled off really so everything is tucked up there. I played MOHAA for 30 minutes and never saw temps go above 39C for the CPU. This is a P4 2.66GHz so I'll have to see what this can do a little later on in terms of overclocking. I'll probably follow up with some night time pics once I am able to take them.
Why is the water pink?
Water wetter-it's a coolant/anti-bacterial treatment for the water. It works wonderful but it IS pink.
they don't do more fashionable colours? Like neon green? :D :D
Wouldn't good ol' coolant do the same job? You can get that in green. :D
Nice case F-, I've been following your progress since last week BTW. Hope your finger is healing OK.
Just one thing: Are you planning on keeping the radiator inside the case? Wouldn't it work more efficiently outside with the resovior?
There would be a small decrease in temperature but it's really not worth it. I would have to find somewhere to mount it outside the case, I would have to run power out there for the fan and it would be much louder having the fan outside. Also, coolant would do a similar (not quite as good cooling) job but it wouldn't prevent bacteria from forming.Quote:
Originally posted by Novakain
Wouldn't good ol' coolant do the same job? You can get that in green. :D
Nice case F-, I've been following your progress since last week BTW. Hope your finger is healing OK.
Just one thing: Are you planning on keeping the radiator inside the case? Wouldn't it work more efficiently outside with the resovior?
Gotcha. Looking forward to seeing how the case turns out.:thumbs:
PINK !?! something you want to 'share' ? :DQuote:
Originally posted by NooNoo
they don't do more fashionable colours? Like neon green? :D :D
You can add simple food colourant to water to get more 'interesting' shades usually it doesn't react with any anti bacterial agents (I've used the stuff from pet shops for aquariums for this) ... I have a 'dude' who added coloured oil to his system to get quite 'mad' effects in the water reservoir, though personally I'd be a bit iffy about what effect that might have on cooling ... but his temps are good ! so I guess why not !?!
Oh edit ...
On a more prosaic note ... re pliers ... I've always found 'circlips' the ones you tighten with a screwdriver or nut are by far superior to any other method to 'crimp' conections tight ...
Those do generally work better... except with acrylic tubing. They generally have a very negative effect being that they cut into the tubing, many times cutting it off completely. The plastic racheting clamps are generally the best to use for maximum tightness and to avoid any problems with the tubing.Quote:
Originally posted by confus-ed
On a more prosaic note ... re pliers ... I've always found 'circlips' the ones you tighten with a screwdriver or nut are by far superior to any other method to 'crimp' conections tight ...
You can buy ones with plastic (I don't know how to describe them) ... oh yeah threads ! ... & metal 'tighteners' ... but I get your drift ... I have used ptfe (plumbers tape) to alleviate this too (around the tubes below where any fasteners go) ... it's probably all done by now, anyways ... but a tip nevertheless ;)Quote:
Originally posted by ephmynus
Those do generally work better... except with acrylic tubing. They generally have a very negative effect being that they cut into the tubing, many times cutting it off completely. The plastic racheting clamps are generally the best to use for maximum tightness and to avoid any problems with the tubing.