This morning, my brother and I began setting up my WaterCooling stuff ready for Christmas, as I am getting some new P4 hardware. For the hardware techies: Epox EP-4PEA+ Intel P4 2.53GHz 256Mb Corsair XMS3200 DDR RAM It will all be going in my Antec Dragon. Ive decided to setup a step-by-step account of how I have done it. Stage one: The Kit Atlantis Rev3 Waterblock OCPC "The Deep" Radiator 1/2" Tubing Ehiem 1250 Pump Stage 2: Preperation First I had to make an appropriate space at the front of my case for the radiator. This was pretty simple; I just marked out how much room was needed and I got jigsaw-ing!! Thanks to @nth0ny for his jigsaw-ing skills! Stage 3: Preparing the Radiator Small cannals through the fins of the radiator had to be made so I had some way of fitting it to the front of the case. Once this was done I threaded some string through and attached the fan. It was now ready to put into the case. Stage 4: Fitting the Radiator It was just a case of drilling some holes in the front of the case the radiator could be attached securly. Would have used cable ties, but couldnt find any, so we improvised. Stage 5: To be continued..... The preperation is now done, roll on Christmas!! This is how it looks fitted into the front of the case. Cheers, Tom
if you look at the fan, you'll notice that it's exausting the air from the rad. but what you've meant wasn't that?: Should the exausted air be exausted ouside the case?
Yes its extracting air from the rad but its blowing it into the case. Should it not be exhausting the hot air out of the case? Besides some people prefer to blow air over the rad rather than suck it away from the rad. I would extract it from the rad like you have done, but once again it's taking hot air into the case.
hot air rises. generally hot air gathers at the top of your case so i find it best to exaust uo high and intake from the same place Tom has chosen.
I do know this very simple fact. My ten year old cousin knows that hot air rises. But the radiator is a heat source, so surely the air should be exhausted from the case, top or bottom.
maybe you could make a perspez duct going through the bottom of the case. that would keep most of the hot air out of the case, (not to mention looking realy cool).
Yes everybody knows this but it is often overlooked. You do not want air that has already been heated by your computer components to then be passed through your radiator. You want the coldest air you can passing through your radiator which is air from outside your case.
Delphia thats a good idea actually. I was going to mention that in my home server I intend to put the radiator in the top of the case and isolate it from the rest of the case with its own intake and exhaust fan, but I haven't seen the size of this case. A duct would be pretty cool.
i'd get a gasket or something for that or the air is gonna take the path of least resistance and leak in at the sides of the fan, resulting in worse performance
Finished now......... Step 6: Attaching the pump Our next step was to mount the pump inside the case, the normal way is to have it on the bottom, but I felt this took up too much room, so my bro had an idea to put it above the Rad, like so: How it is fitted Step 7: Preparing the motherboard Now we had to get the mobo ready for the water block, this was done by removing the plastic HS holder and replacing it with the mounts: Step 8: Piecing together the system After fitting the water block, we had to measure out the pipe and start attaching them to the barbs: http://www.ashton.eclipse.co.uk/Pictures/Tom/WB.jpg http://www.ashton.eclipse.co.uk/Pictures/Tom/Pipe.jpg Step 9: Bleeding the system There are a few ways of doing this, but I find the easiest way is to fit just one T piece with a perpendicular barb left pointing vertically. Attach a piece of piping to this barb and fill the system with water. The main prob with this is there is alot of air still left in the system, so you have to leave it for a couple of hours so all the air is forced out. Every 20mins or so, you can top it up with water, to make sure there is sufficient. Then, in a couple of hours, you are sorted. Tom
It would have been easier bleeding the system if you had put the T between the WB and pump. Oh and you really want to put a shroud between the fan and radiator. Air soo loves to go the path less restrictive.
No room for a res in there? I admit although the midi dragon and scorpios look big and weigh a ton they can be quite cramped inside. Nice work, I'm not sure about the pipe width, they kind of obscure the view. Do you have a window or are you planning to put one in?
id suggest a bit of blacktape around the edges of the fan ... works as well as a shroud and quite a bit easier .... and you might wanna take a black sharpie to the string hoding your rad in place ... black wont stand out as much as the stark white does ...] </2cents>
looks gr8t!...as mentioned I would reccomend u get a cowl for the fan/radiator...otherwise...looks nice! i think mashie is right about bleeding the system