Cooling Waterblock Construction Log

cracking job olv but i don't see any "o" rings............how have you sealed it all together???

 

hehe, fancying trying to make an 'o'-ring groove with a drill press or dremel? Not me! It'll be sealed with thick contact adhesive type glue and plumbers tape on the barbs.

I bought my resevoir today, not an original idea but never the less a good one. I'll post pics when i get home tonight.

Only need pump, tubing, a couple of heatercores and a few little bits and bobs and i'll be up and running
i'll test the cpu block and then make the NB and gfx blocks

thx for all the positive feed back

 

sweet job hope it dont leak, test it first. Not saying you did crap work. lol...just in case

 

of course i'll test it first lol. you think i trust my own first go handy work?



final finish shot.

I sealed the whole thing up today. with thick contact adhesive glue stuff and ptfe tape on the barbs. It shouldnt leak but you never know.

 

MMMmmmm SHINY

Good job well done by the looks of it.............bet you can't wait to get it installed to see how it goes!

 

that looks suspiciously like Fudge Hair Varnish in the background

 

yeh tell me about it! still need to get all the pump and tubing and little bits. Plus i need to make my res... if anyone can give me any help in my custom resevoir thread a little bit further down i'd appreciate it

thanks for all the positive comments,

 

you look far to closely at pics hehe. it's hair shaper not varnish, it gets used whenever i can be arsed lol

 

any progress?

 

Sorry, i forgot i hadn't updated this! Initial tests were a bit disapointing. about 3-4 degrees better then my AlphaPAL.

Looked like this:



Pump in the res was the only way i could get it up and running so temps were pretty poor and airflow was bad because there was no shroud.

After some re-arrangement i decided i'd clean it all out, the cpu block had some debris from the rad in it which was killing performance, i also wanted to try the other radiator and made a shroud for it.

Looks like this now:



Running much better at 46 degrees load at 2.1v, compared to 50ish before but no air comparison. The resevoir is really bad though, throws loads of air into the system so i imagine there is still some improvement to be had.

This is the fastest super-pi run i got.



So quite pleased with the results.

 

Is that a quaker oats box as a shroud? Brilliant! Very nice work with this block olv and the results look good. Whats next? Design tweaks maybe?

 

shhhh it's an ultra 'special' modding material, top secret

I'm gonna be making the NB and GFX blocks first before i start redesinging the cpu block. Then i'll see what improvements can be made Plus there is the custom case that this will all end up in.

 

46 @ load on an ocK'ed cpu isnt bad imo.

well done, especially since it was you first full attempt at a WB

 

Yeh 46C load @ 2.1 volts is very repectable

 

what did you use to make the hole templates?

BTW, the block is looking great.

 

Sorry i missed your post. I used a free trial of Corel Designer 10. was really simply to use and worked pretty well, perfect for a complete CAD noob like me.

 

Hey, the pics don't work for me? if you took them down could you email them to me or something, I am very interested in seeing this..

email: s_c_o_o_b_y_0_6 at optonline dot net

(remove all _'s)

 

arrrg

get the pic's to work grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Yeah !!! get the pics to work, i have access to a whole workshop so might just make myself one

 

here are the pics, forgot how long it takes yo upload and link so many pics.



























There you go... you'll have to try and extract meaning from my previous posts of explanation.

I'm in the process of making a new CPU block but it's proving to be very annoying with the tools i have so i might just give in a buy one. I am going to start on my NB and GFX blocks soon though.

Hope the pictures are useful.

If i were to suggest some design improvements for any of you that were to attempt to make a similar designed block then they would be to increase the number of cups in the base. The ammount i used just isn't enough. You want to use at least double. Also, I used 3 or 4mm base holes with 2mm jet holes but i think it would be better to use 2mm base holes with 1mm jet holes but make the cups very close together, very compact. Would require some precise drilling but performance would be much better imo.