Pictures of your computer(s)

[3 EMS]

Here is mine. My first case mod and water cooling project.


Maybe I should have edited out the dishes. I was having too much fun to worry about them.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Nice! How you like that HAF?

Also, how difficult was getting your water cooling set up? I have no need for it now, but I know a couple of people that have asked me if I could do it for them.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Aren't you afraid the bag will burst and fry everything? lol

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Aren't you afraid the bag will burst and fry everything? lol

Maybe you should look up how watercooling works?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Obviously I'm not the brightest

 

[3 EMS]

The HAF is great. The triple radiator fits right in. Could just as easily have put it in the bottom and the PSU on top. That res came out as I was searching for the parts. The pump mounts to it and I can run two parallel loops off of it. I'm getting ready to wc my GTX 270 and will have one loop to the radiator and the other to the CPU and GPU.

The most difficult part of setting it up was bleeding it. I don't think I was doing it right at first so it took awhile.

@aimee. I ran it for two days before I applied any power to the motherboard. Once I was certain of no leaks I added componants and powered it up. The system is low pressure and the parts are new so I don't think anything will burst.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Well, congrats. Its a nice looking system. If heat was an issue for me, I would be doing it, but fortunately I got a nice and fairly cool-running cpu, and the GTX 260's dont run too hot.

 

[Mulholland]

@aimee. I ran it for two days before I applied any power to the motherboard. Once I was certain of no leaks I added componants and powered it up. The system is low pressure and the parts are new so I don't think anything will burst.

I wish I could vot you up. Good answer.

 

[Cutlass]

I knew one guy who had a water cooling system he said leaked on him. According to his claim, if you use distilled 100% pure water the computer will survive it. I don't recall exactly what was said, but worth following up on.

 

[J-man]

I knew one guy who had a water cooling system he said leaked on him. According to his claim, if you use distilled 100% pure water the computer will survive it. I don't recall exactly what was said, but worth following up on.

Distilled (or de-ionized) water is a poor conductor because there are no dissolved salts but it's not a total isolator. It also corrodes metals more easily. If your cooling system has metal parts it might leak more easily.

 

[Perfection]

The other thing is that leaked distilled water can pick up salts and become more conductive.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

dH20 is one of the safer fluids to use, but if you're using an aluminum reserve and copper heatsinks, you may want to look into some non-corrosive, non-conductive fluid because otherwise there's going to be some massive corrosion.

 

[3 EMS]

Mine is all copper with distilled water plus a biocide. I wanted to add a dye but after reading about the problems they cause I decided not to. Instead I used colored anti-kink coils. Didn't need them just added them for looks.

I've read rhat people use antifreeze to slow corrosion when using dissimilar metals. That stuff is a particular problem for my reservoir. I'm glad I didn't need it. That res allows for a really clean loop.

Thanks for the compliment Genocidicbunny. Heat is not a problem for me either until I raise the vcore voltage to increase speed. Don't do that all the time but its there if I want to.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I can see that you would need to since you have a E6600. My Q9550 has a sweet vcore spot where I can get it to 3.8ghz bootable, 3.6ghz stable. Memory doesnt play well with that FSB thought, so I run it at 3.4ghz. Its nice and stable, and vcore is only slightly bumped from stock. In fact, I could undervolt from stock and it would run at 2.83 stable.

Really lucky with this chip.