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Project Max III Black Box V3.01

Discussion in 'Project Logs' started by Maximilium, 26 Feb 2004.

  1. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    The Hardware:

    Abit C7-MAX3
    Intel P-4 3 GHZ
    2X Corsair Memory TwinX1024-3200C2PRO
    ATI RADEON 9800XT Video Card, 256MB DDR
    Lian-Li PC-75B
    Lian-Li EX-23 Black Drive Bay
    I-Stand Transparent Acrylic Blue LED Case Bases
    Enermax 550w power supply
    Matrix Orbital MX230
    SONY CD-RW CRX160E
    SONY DVD-RW DW-U14A
    2X (Raid 0)Seagate Barracuda 80GB Serial ATA V with 8MB Cache
    Western Digital 40GB ATA/100

    Fans:

    Vantec UV LED Blue Spectrum Fan Card
    4X80mm Blue UV Cold Cathode Fan
    2X Panaflo 80mm High
    Aluminum LED Fan - 80mm

    Updated V4.02
     
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  2. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    The Watercooling parts I used:

    4X Black Ice Micro Radiators
    Danger-Den RBX CPU block,Danger-Den Z-Chip Block(Intel 865/875)
    Delay Timer Kit (DTK)
    2X MCP-600 Pumps
    Aqua-computer aqua-tube
    Bay-Res Water Reservoir Rev2
    Omega FPR121 Flow Sensor
    CritiCool PowerPlant Rev. 2
    2-Wire DC Voltmeters DMS-20PC-0-DCM-B
    External Power Supply 12V DC, 5A, 60W

    Updated V4.02
     
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  3. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    More pictures

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  4. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    the guts O_0

    This is "the pluming" inside my computer.

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    And this is how i fill and bleed my system:

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    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    The Flow Switch

    Here I will explain the purpose of the flow switch on my computer. The Johnson Pump CM10P7-1 requires a 1.6 amp fuse, if the fuse burn, and without the flow switch protection the computer will suffer a terrible death.

    When I started my project I had the Asus PT4533 motherboard, with this motherboard you can actually disconnect the CPU fan cable from the motherboard and the computer will stay on :shrug: , not all motherboards have the same glitch, but from what I learn reading on the forums, there are a lot of them out there with this problem.

    After I got everything I need it to protect my computer from a possible disaster, I decided to get a new motherboard (I have a friend that wanted to buy my computer, so I sold it to him :rolleyes: ), I got the Abit IC7-MAX3, and to my surprise this motherboard actually shutdown in 1 sec. after disconnecting the cpu fan cable (making things more easier) :D

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    There is also a cheaper way to prevent the computer to say on if the fuse burn, just use the same +12v DC pump cable after the fuse to supply voltage to the fan, if the fuse burn, pump stop, fan stop (no r.p.m. signal to MB), and your computer will shutdown, but it wont shutdown the computer if there is low flow from the pump.
     
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  6. isisfreak

    isisfreak What's a Dremel?

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    Damn... what are your temps?
     
  7. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    35c idle
    42-45c at full load :geek:
     
  8. Vo0Ds

    Vo0Ds Fake potato

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    Wow, nice system, the first pic of it lit up looks great!
     
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    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks, i be posting more pictures soon :)
     
  10. ReFredzRate

    ReFredzRate Relix Headshot!!

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    Nice tube management!! :thumb:
     
  11. stigmata

    stigmata What's a Dremel?

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    imho your temps are too high, 35° idle on a P4 is not good. i've got 27° or even less on a 2500+ @ 2200 mhz.
    maybe you used too much L-shaped connectors, they really kill flowrate... and the 4 micro-radiators are useless, much better a dual fan rad.
    the same for the 2 reservoirs, they are useless and slow flowrate, as the flowswitch, but that's useful.
    imho your system is not optimized at all if you look for real cooling. but if you look only to aesthetic... well done!

    sorry for my english... :( :( :(
     
  12. Vo0Ds

    Vo0Ds Fake potato

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    It may be warm but it looks cool as hell! I like the 80 blues on the mini rads :rock:
     
  13. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    Looks good. Nice watercooling gear. Close ish to mine i guess. Good luck with new idea.
     
  14. sqaulidhummer

    sqaulidhummer What's a Dremel?

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    sweet , nice watercooling :jawdrop:
     
  15. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah i realized long time ago the temps are high for a water cool computer, i had 49c idle and 56c load when i was running on air. in the other hand the chipset temperature is about 25c.

    I did a couple of things first trying to solve this issue (lapping cup block, better termal paste) but nothing, i dont think is a flow restriction problem
    (my pump create so much flow that it was sucking colected air from the acuatube reservior back to the system, thats why i added the second angel eye 5 1/4 res and changed all the tubing before the infeed at the pump to 1/2 id)

    So, after doing all this, the only thing that can be causing the warm temperature, the cpu block design.

    What cpu block are you using on your computer?
     
  16. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    More pictures

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    Ligoman17 What's a Dremel?

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    The comp. in my sig runs 40C idle, 48C load on air cooling. 35C idle on an 800MHz P4 is very low. Also, Abit boards based on the Intel 875 chipset tend to report temps 5-10 deg. above other brands of boards. This is a well documented "problem." (They claim they are sampling the temperature closer to the core than all other mobo manufacturers, hence the higher temp. :rolleyes:) Link


    I think 35C is an awesome achievement for a 3GHz P4.

    Also, you english is very good. :thumb:
     
  18. 3N1GM4

    3N1GM4 What's a Dremel?

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    is there a log here or just pictures of a completed case?

    anyways its a nice pc nice management, and looks like alot of time went into it
     
  19. Ligoman17

    Ligoman17 What's a Dremel?

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    How did you get an aquatube reservior in the US? I've been looking for one for quite a while now...
     
  20. Maximilium

    Maximilium What's a Dremel?

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    Yellowsnow17 thanks for that link, i thougth there was something terrible wrong with my set up :wallbash:

    I got the acuatube from wizzard design
    http://www.wizarddesigns.co.uk/restanks.htm

    but, just last week i found something interesing, the Innovatek's Fass-o-Matic Reservoir
    http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=HSPC&Category_Code=FassTank
     

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