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Cooling Anyone got experience of this kit ? NOW BOUGHT & FITTED (pics added)

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ThE-LyNX, 29 Jul 2005.

  1. ThE-LyNX

    ThE-LyNX What's a Dremel?

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    ThermalTake BigWater
    Linky

    with this & this

    Aiming to cool my AMD 64 3500+ winchester & sparkle pci-e 6600GT.

    Was wondering is this gonna cut it (not looking to overclock just kill noise) or should i look at something else.

    Never done watercooling so was looking for an easy install kit and this looks ok.

    Also may need a chipset block as my Asus A8N-Sli deluxe seems to have the noisiest tiny fan i have every heard, would the kit still cope or would i need to upgrade pump, rad etc.

    TIA
     
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  2. clocker

    clocker Shovel Ready

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    That kit would prolly do OK for just your CPU ( the 90nm Winnies run very cool anyway), but may not be able to deal with the vid card too.

    Definitely lose the "flow indicator", that thing will just strangle your (already marginal) flow.

    I can see the appeal of a kit to get you started, but dollars to donuts you'll be upgrading it soon to a DIY loop.
     
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  3. ThE-LyNX

    ThE-LyNX What's a Dremel?

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    got the kit this mornin, slightly diff gfx block but still thermaltake.

    Took all of 45 mins to fit :D i thought it was gonna take loads longer. leak tested it for 4 or so hours and finally powered everything up

    temps

    fan at lowest
    Idle 36c
    load 49c

    fan at highest
    idle 34c
    load 44c

    load being a about 30 mins of playing BF2 at hig res

    temps seem fine to me and now i just need to kill the chipset fan

    Yeah i am now VERY intersted in a high performance custom loop, just for 1st attempt i wanted an easy fit kit.
     
    ThE-LyNX, 31 Jul 2005
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  4. Shadowed_fury

    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    Thats interesting, my temps are the same on air! :/
     
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  5. ThE-LyNX

    ThE-LyNX What's a Dremel?

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    So were mine.

    The whole point of doin this was for silence and to that end its a total success (well the chipset fan still needs sortin).
     
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    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    Yeah i know, sorry.
    I wasn't trying to piss on your fire :)
    My rig is noisy as hell atm, Stupid NB fan :(
     
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  7. ThE-LyNX

    ThE-LyNX What's a Dremel?

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    nps

    but yeah the chipset fan is very VERY noisy and extremely noticable now

    am looking towards a large passive heatsink or a larger heatsink with a quiet fan, possibly a waterblock but i may just move this water kit into a diff pc and get a custom loop sorted :D :dremel:
     
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  8. jjsyht

    jjsyht Hello, my name is yuri

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    I would recommend a zalman NB47J, but since you already have a water cool setup, get a chipset water block (from swiftech, cuz they are the best imo).
     
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    Maybe, but not on a NF4 alone.
    With a 40/60/80mm fan, thats better.

    It gets stupidly hot.
     
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  10. biff

    biff What's a Dremel?

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    Nice to hear you had success on your first go! :thumb:

    What I'd reccomend for your NB, if you have the space, is do what I did for the NB on my NF7-S. I recycled an old socketA OEM cooler and changed the fan to a good 60mm x 15mm fan and run the fan @ 5V. Use the 15mm thick ones though as they are better at moving more air at lower RPMs than the 10mm ones. It only cost me a few bucks for the new fan and it works awesome... stays very cool. Best of all, having a 60mm fan @ 5V is totaly silent. This way you're not impeding your main loop any or adding any heat so you can save those few ° for OCing.

    Actually I liked this setup so much I did the same thing on my R9800Pro, except I run that fan @ 7V but it's still silent. And the gpu is barely warm even when OCed to 500Mhz @ 1.9V.
     
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  11. ThE-LyNX

    ThE-LyNX What's a Dremel?

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    some pics

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    Taking pics of UV stuff aint easy, its brighter than pic 2 but no way as bright as pics 3 & 4.
     
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  12. kaotic504

    kaotic504 What's a Dremel?

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    that looks great man.
     
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