I recently got my hands on a good Q6600 G0 part, and it's currently doing 3,4GHz on a very respectable 1,26V. However, i think this chip should be able to do much much more, but i'm not cooling it adequately. It's currently under a Reserator V1, and it actually manages to warm up the water in the tank after some time! This is why i bought a basic watercooling set from MagiCool consisting of a better block, an 120.1 rad and a pump. I figure if i combine the two, there should be ample cooling performance, and my little baby should be on it's way to 3,8GHz Anyway, before i can start killing the BIOS again, first i have to rebuild the loop. This is the plan: Reserator -> rad -> pump -> CPU -> reserator. The reserator has it's own small pump, so it should be able to push the water through the rad, and with the pump directly in front of the CPU block i'm hoping for max pressure and friction there. My questions: Will this work, or is there a better layout? Will the two pumps get in eachothers way? They are rated at different flow rates obviously. Tubing question: i tried fitting the tubes from the reserator to the fittings in the magicool set... no luck. It looks like the Reserator uses 12/8mm tubing, while the Magicool set takes 10/8. What's the best way to deal with this?
First piece of advice: don't. Second piece of advice: Sell all that kit and go with something capable of coping with that heat load. Now to quantify, those parts are metal mixing, you'll need some pretty hardcore anticorrosives in there, and that will impede thermal performance, but more to the point, all the rads that you have are still not enough to keep you reliably at 3.8 with good temps. Also, you've picked parts that will take all hell kind of reducers to fit together. If you can sell that Magicool kit, do so, and then try and turn that reserator around. A TRUE will honestly give you better temps than a setup of that marriage...
I hate it when people give me bad news! You are probably right though. I hate that even more! Ok, here's what i'll do: I'll use just the magicool set for now, see how far i get with that. It should at least do a little better then the reserator i guess Maybe i can put the reserator to work on the GPU and/or the nothbridge. I like the thing somehow. Thanks for your advice, i'm going to reconcider my options
Utterly pointless using two pumps, as the flow will be dictated by the weakest pump anyway... so the reserator is a no go... ditch it, and get decent blocks, pump and tubing... you won't regret it. I'm already missing my water cooled rig and it's only been two days Just seeing 39 degrees at idle makes me weep Don't get caught up with the order you place things in the loop either, as it makes no difference with a decent flowing system, as the water temp will balnce out in a few minutes. The only thing you may want to do is NOT put teh res right after the pump unless its a big res or you may get bubbles/frothing/turbulence in the loop. As for which block first etc... makes no difference. When I built mine I had no choice but to put eth res after the pump, and I had a large res (8 inches high, and 2 inches wide) and it was fine.... if you can help it though, put the res before the pump.
