Cooling cool lookin' heatsinks to encase in plexi?

anyone know of any cool heatsinks? I want either like spiral fins or blue anodized, or... I saw in the modding forum i believe, some guy took a heat sink that had what looked like aluminum pins sticking out of a copper base and encase that in plexi. I just wanna make my own custom CPU and/or GPU water blocks. hmmm maybe a tkaing a blue orb and encasing it in plexi? would that fit on an AMD XP2000+/2100+? any ideaas would be greatly appreciated.

 

oh any tips on making my own water block? I live in USA by the way

 

Could be a Swiftech cooler.
http://www.swiftnets.com/


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Elemental

 

the Zalman CNPS6000-AlCu does look like a good looking heatsink but be hard to cover in plexi

 

What about using an old (or new) Thermalright SK6? It's compact, square(ish) and works well in air so would be even better in water! You could easily Dremel off some of the overhanging fins and encase that in plexi? It waould also look pretty good, a bit like a giant cooling-solutions block. It would also no suffer form any galvanic corrosion, even with pure water coolant unlike a Cu/Al block might - I guess it's you're choice though

Someone made the much more elaborate 'winchester double-barrelled watercooler' over at overclockers.com a while ago now using an SK6 so I'm sure it'd be very do-able. Good luck with the project!

 

Re: Re: cool lookin' heatsinks to encase in plexi?

yup thats what he had.....pretty simple to do.....just takes time and patience, like most mods of this caliber

 

yup im going with the swiftech MCXC370 i believe

 

I made my own Waterblock useing a Swiftech MC462A ... just took out the outer 3 rows of pins and put an alluminium lid on the thing. It is kindof expensive but what the heck !? As for temps - if I ever get my Mora rad I'll be posting here

Cheers

[DE]FreD_S

 

I swapped my swiftech for some of my water-cooling hardware. Only after I'd done this did I realise what I could have done with it.

I would say a copper based HSF would a better starting point for this type of project. Also the other point is needs bolting threw the MB as this block will become very heavy after you have modded it and will need proper support.

 

you can say that out loud dude ! Talk about heavy ... I made 4 holes in the case behind the 4 CPU mounting holes to support my block ... 1 Kg ! But I suppose with a plexiglass lid on it, the HS won't be that heavy, even if it is a swiftech ... in any case I'd try to use the mounting holes for installation if you convert a normal air HS into a WB, I don't think the clips would support the weight of a flooded WB.

Cheers

[DE]FreD_S

 

can i do this with an ASUS A7V KT333 ? I havent ordered the mobo yet but its the one i want (voice post = NIFTY) Im using a clear acrylic case so i guess if i used shiny bolts it wouldnt look bad! hmmm might look kiinda niftyso you guys think i should kepp the original springy things that it has and uses them to mount it on mobo and case?

 

well the guys from swiftech use them ( just visited their hp ) but I suppose if you're using a MCXC370 you'd have to remove more of the pins if you mount a lid and keep the spring-clips. You'd be able to keep more pins, if you take off the spring-clips and rearrange the HS for mountinghole use - that would however be a bit harder to make ... In any case I'd say you're on the safe side if you use the mounting holes which the A7V-333 has.

Cheers

[DE]FreD_S

 

i thinking of dipping the walls in where the springs are

 

Morph

These UK sites may be of interest to U if ya plan to go down the custom build route.

http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/content.asp?request=liquidgf3&page=1

http://www.digital-explosion.co.uk/public_html/Tutorial_SocketCPUWaterBlock.html

Ooooh and unusual custom jobbies............for ideas http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index31.asp

Mat

 

Swiftie's do rock. First guy I saw do this was Petzl right here on Bit-Tech. You can check out my similar project also on Bit-Tech:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9402

Enjoy!