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Modding Nooh's Watercooled HD3870 & Modded Rad Housing

Discussion in 'Modding' started by nooh, 3 Dec 2007.

  1. Rocket733

    Rocket733 Austerity - It's the only way

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    Looks nice! I can see a lot of work went into this setup and I'd say it paid off. It's not all about temps and oc's but also just being neat, which this certainly is.
     
  2. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks man. I agree with you. I could have purchased the prethia if I wanted just temps but it wasnt just the tems but i wanted modding and be lucky enough to try 3 x360 rads and i have no regrets for the ammount i have used but only the one and that is I wish I could have tried more which would have helped me get even better dile to load temps.

    anyway more pics with the sliding doors in action

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  3. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    Since its my bday today my wife is being more supportive of my mod and has cleaned up my area for better pics , so here they are

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    Looks way better now.

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  4. francisl1420

    francisl1420 What's a Dremel?

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    Did you think about positioning the rads so they push/pull air thru the mesh on the sides?
     
  5. Angleus

    Angleus What's a Dremel?

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    Slightly off topic but what mouse pad are you using there nooh?

    (Cool system btw)
     
  6. MonkeyNutZ

    MonkeyNutZ Crysis Fiend

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    Looks like an Razer eXactMat :geek:
     
  7. Angleus

    Angleus What's a Dremel?

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    Cheers!
     
  8. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    Sorry guys but anyway some one has already answered you and its a exactamat.

    The air from the bottom is ventitalted good enough. It makes about 2 -3 c difference when I opened the doors.

    Maybe sometime in the future I may take out the acrylic and just leave the mesh.

    I am quite happy with the way things are at the moment .
     
  9. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    Done some overclocking , well mild overclocking . 3ghz and its the old stepping.
     
  10. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    OK guys , I have been experimenting with my loop and I am rreally pleased with my findings.

    When I started this project my aim was to eliminate the usage of fans and trying to run a passive cooled loop.

    A ost of the people who I spoke with told me its not possible. I was scared so I took there word for it but I still wanted to use as many rads as possible.

    I didnt know much but I did know this and that more area = better and quicker cooling, hence me wanting so many rads.

    I have three pumps now and all are very good pumps. 2 lutras and 1 vario.

    I am going to experiment tonight with my GPU loop and if all goes well I am going to purchase one Ma Ro alphacool 120.9 for the CPU loop and have it running on zero fans.

    Now this is a pic of the GPU loop running on idle wihout any fans. Threre is two rads on this loop

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    Yes naughty OEM's . Dell need to be sued.

    It came at 2400mhz out of the box.

    before the gpu loop used to be 33c idle and now its 37c idle.

    I am going to run it for 2 hours on crysis. Crysis really makes the card work it , even if your standing at one point doing nothing the load on the gpu will be 99%. See you guys later with the results.
     
  11. legoman666

    legoman666 Beat to fit, paint to match.

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    lookin nice, sent you a PM about the hd3870 waterblock.
     
  12. nooh

    nooh What's a Dremel?

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    I couldnt get ati tool runin but then I finally did also did it on crysis

    Crysis is very very very stressfful on any gpu . Here are my findings and I am really pleased.

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    Its shows its safe to run on passive cooling alone. I ran it nearly for 2 hours with crysis and 7 hours on ati tool.
     

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