Hiya everyone.. Greetings from The Genome Collective.. I love the look of your BB and it looks like you have a great group of people here. I am coming in here completely blind. I have been working with computers for quite a while now, but I have never built a water cooling rig, and am completely clueless about it. Right now I am looking at building a system and trying to put prices together.. I am looking at doing a Dual Athlon system and was wondering how much money would be required to do a really good Watercooling Job. The computer I have right now is great, but I want to make this new one into a REAL work of art. I would appreciate any help you all would want to give me Also, if you all are interested in science at all, come on over and check us out. We're a fun group of people and are all working for a good cause .
Im just starting to get into watercooling also. Im guessing a really nice system would be around 400 dollars. Less if you dont want to use a peltier.
lol, 400 bucks is more than my PC cost! my watercooling rig cost me, uh lets see. 20 bucks. pipe cap block - $2 bilge pump (ebay) - $10 surgical tubing - $8 real real ghetto mind you. epoxy to seal cables together and some clamps i had lying around. got a radiator outta an old AC lol, its cheaper than most of your guys' heatsinkd id bet. course, i dont trust it with anythng other and my P166, but its something.
Hmm.. 400.. Would that be enough to support cooling both processors? I want to make it look real good, so the cheap route isn't gonna do it.. I want to dye the water so it glows under a black light, so I will need nice clear tubing. Those are the ideas I have right now, still designing the rest of it in my head.
www.dtekcustoms.com - Maybe get two of the Spir@l waterblocks; they have an acrylic top, so if you dyed your water, it'll look nice through a blacklight. www.dangerden.com - Pumps, radiators, tubing, clamps, etc. www.caseetc.com - Same as above.
Cool.. Thanks a ton.. Those really give me some ideas that I hadn't thought of before.. I love the look of those Spir@l blocks, that would look incredible with UV dye in the water... Hmm.. Time to start doing some drawings.. I have a ton more questions but I dont know where to start LOL.. I'll be back soon when I get more of an idea of what I want to do..
Another alternative is to make it all yourself. I am currently constructing an enture water system from scratch! The main reason for this is asthetics! I wanted it to be COMPLETELY custom to my likeings. The only thing that I am not making is the pump...atleast not yet anyways. If you are not very creative and/or handy then I do sugest using prefab products. most are very good but some are not worth a damn. The main things that you need to consider is your available space and personal preferance. By the way... I will be damned befor I pay $400 for a rig...makeing it myself is less than $100 and no real specialized tools are needed, just the normal modin' tools. Just real ALOT of reviews and ask ALOT of questions. E me if you wish!! Good luck, Wyzzord
I have to agree with Wyzzord on this one, my first intuition was to buy and pre-fab watercooling kit until I realized that most offered little in terms of configuration and performance. I spent a great deal of time reading plenty of articles and gathering ideas. I've just started getting the pieces that I will need since everything will be custom. I just need to find the right size heater core and decide on placement and runs for the silicon tubing.
There was a review of a dozen of Water blocks, guess you should look at that review too to see what's the best one!
One thing you will have to be careful of is that some of the dual motherboards don't have the mounting holes which are needed for a lot of water blocks. Also be aware of the layout of the board. I know that say with a tyan mbd you will not be able to fit the large swiftec block but will be able to use the maze 2, both of which use the mounting holes. As far as cost goes I would say 2xwaterblock = £90-100 (probably maze2's) 1xrad = £50 ish (go for one of the heater matrix type) 1xpump = £41.99 (Eheim 1250 from Here ) tubing etc = £30 max Fan for rad = £15 max depending on flow requirments Grand total of arround £240 this assumes you are not wanting pelts etc which would boost the price considerably as you also would need power supplys. Note that the prices are what is avalable in this fine land so for you I would probably change the £ to $ and then devide by 2 as all the stuff above is made in your neck of the woods. Just my thoughts on the matter but there you go, Chrisy
I want to thank everyone for all the responses.. I honestly have a ton of things that I am now looking at.. I have a large server case on the way right now.. When it gets here (Probably early next week) I am going to take some mesurements and figure out what I should do next.. First step is going to probably be getting the pump and the radiator, find out how I want to place those. But then I am going to hold off cause there is rumblings of some new Dual AMD motherboards coming out really soon.. I'll post some pics of the case when I get it so you all can see how it is going... Once again, thanks SOO much for all the help.. I will be back again soon to let you all know how it is going.. BTW, I think I am going to hook up some pelts cause I am going to OC this thing until it dosent OC any more.. This is not going to be a quick job.. If it takes me months to get everything perfect than it will have to take that long.. But when it's done, I hope to make it a masterpiece...
Good luck!! Takeing your time means that you can build the system the way it was intended....the right way!!! lol Let us know!!!!
Well thank you all for all the help so far. I just recently got the case that I am going to base this entire system off. It has tons of room and should be perfect for this project. http://www.globalwinusa.com/products/61f1.html I also decided to go with building the water cooling system pretty much from scratch. Looking around for parts and such right now.
