Finally got my watercooler in

[PacMan]

Wow, looks good A+Tech!!

I like your idea jaimicook and think its enjoyable to do things like your attempting . Man, that’s a damn good idea Duke of Rezin with the little fridge. Does the water in the bucket freeze up or you got it set at above freezing temp?

I bought the Zalman CNPS6000-Cu and it works great! See, you place a large 92mm fan on top which cools the heatsink and the northbridge if placed right. Now what I want to do is take out the 92mm fan and place some kind of plastic wall around the heatsink to turn it into a cpu waterblock. Man that would work great!! I mean this "flower" design sucks up so much of the heat that a water block around it would eliminate the fan. Ofcourse have a pump, puming water through it. So basically, the heatsink would be inside the newly made plastic wall creating a bizarre Zalman CNPS6000-CU waterblock. Now that would be cool . Any ideas? lol

[ephmynus]

That could actually be done but you don't want to use plastic. Cooling and heating of the water would cause it to become brittle and eventually crack. It would be best to do it with copper but I would fear that size wouldn't work too well with everything on your motherboard and would also weigh a ton. While it works in theory, I think if it were implemented, it may not work too well because there would be too much water in the block and not enough flow. You may get a wierd routing problem which would cause a lot of heated water to be sitting on top of your processor. I've seen a watercooling unit before where someone forgot to turn on their pump, the water boiled and one of the hoses at the pump burst, inside their case while the computer was on. This may acheive similar results.

[Duke of Rezin]

I have my pump sitting inches below the freezer portion with the freezer's lid removed and the radiator sits below that. I also have a fan (for convection) sitting next to it and nothing has ever frozen. The system does need to be defrosted about every two weeks. The Zalman Project sounds interesting. You could get a piece of plexiglass from a glass dealer and I even think Lowe's or Home Depot sells it if you're in the US.