Well, the story is short, afther a lot of tought i decided to re-build my daily rig . Changed my old platform (aircooled DFI ultra 939 + amd X2 4400) with a new and more "rare" one: aopen i975x + merom T7400 watercooled. This is absolutly my 1st full-mod work so probably you'll see a lot of imperfection, but i was happy with it, even because I learn a lot, and surely my next work will be better than this So here you can see the pictures that can tell you more than 1000 word of my awfull englisch: Started at the end of july, finished yesterday: work-place pics The goal was to obtain a silent - nice cable wired - totally integrated watercooled daily use rig. I used D-TEK wb for cpu, OC-LABS wb for chipset, and a custom made wb for the VGA. The first problem was to decide between a single or double 120 rad: using a single rad should have been simpler, but not so effective to cool 3 WB in-line. So I had to find a solution to integrate a double 120 fan rad ( the biggest problem was to find pump room): to obtain this mounting: . As case i used my old one: ULTRA Chieftec glossy painted. I had to worK a little to put a 120mm rear fan it seems ok.... In the front i decided to use low profile 80mm fan:
Now is the time to work a little on the hardware component result..... again into the case pump.... radiator.... case... the colour is a neon-purple, it's not so evident in the pics because the flash reflex of the color
some minus problem to sove: The MICROCOOL south-sincis nice and effective, but to tall to mount the vga, so i had to substitute it: dermel work mounted with MICROCOOL microsink power supply: insulation against vibration: total pictures....
increase the vgpu, 1st step to 1,5v second step to 1,58 . originally it is 1,45. With 1st step activated it can bench @ 712 gpu ( 640 with no mod) ...
With just a little more work I'm sure you could have improved the performance of the watercooling somewhat. The D5/D4 family of pumps put out excellent pressure and flow, which you promptly killed with a right angle barb directly after the output. A better solution would have been to fab up a new pump mount (even from from the existing one) that would let you turn the pump through 90 degrees so the outlet was facing the inlet of the cpu waterblock. This would also be a more attractive solution, The fiddly right angle barbs detract from the otherwise pretty clean and lovely look of the case. Dont get me wrong though, constructive ciriticisms aside I really like the case. The colour is excellent even in the photographs.
Don't worry, i always accept constructive ciriticisms and yours is one of that... Well I didn't really think to your solution..but now that you make me think on that... wen I'll have some more spare time, I'll think on that..... I need just to realize a 90° stirrup to place the pump.... I need just to check if i have enough room to do that...
Nice rig! I had a few questions though. Whats the block on the 7950? I was thinking of watercooling mine also, but those 200$ current blocks are a lot to drop on a pre-DX10 card. How does one go about getting an ES chip? I see a lot of people over at XS.com with ES conroes, merom, and kenstfields. Do you need a partnership with Intel?
These are bloks made by an italian WB producer, you can find information about them here The boss is a good fried of mine so these should have been the pre-release blocks, but i dunno he is gonna to produce them . i think that DD solution is a really good one, I kno that they are expnsive, but they are relly nice blocks No, you need have money to buy them from people that have partnership
Maybe because I'm old? Just joking, but what do yu mean for "old style" ? would like to understand the new tendencies
