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This is something so friggin cool, I am so happy when writing this.. first time EVER my Athlon64 3000+ is stable as a rock in 2.4GHz speed ... and not a single fan in the system, except Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer rev.3 fan (which is pretty quiet, my water pump keeps more "noise").
You know, you usually need a fan to cool the computer radiator. My water cooler radiator was very small.... if you click here, you should see my previous radiator. It was just a little bigger than the water pump. And those two big Papst fans are meant to cool the radiator. Well, now I took the radiator from my wife's brother's old Toyota Corolla, I believe it was 1979... had to use crowbar and took time to clean all the [censored] out of it.
It was really difficult to attach so that not a single leak occurs. With water cooling you have to be very careful with the leaks. Every tiny leak is BAD.
I took the big tubes from an old Fiat Uno and those pipe parts from a kind of bin. All those free, of course. Now the cool thing is, I can finally hit 2400MHz stable as a rock on Athlon64 3000+. 10x240 is so easy on this rig. You may wonder what's the point, well, a 2.4GHz A64 CPU costs $600 or more, while this 3000+ is cheap, less than $180. The water block is cooling the cpu. The green liquid is a glycole/water mix.
The Toyota Corolla radiator is BiG, it was so big it does not fit on any my ATX cases (I do have some spare cases...) as you can see from the image. But as a fanless and very cheap and efficient solution... I'm very happy :) Building this took couple of days, filling the tubes and the radiator took over 24 hours.... so patience was an essential part of building this system.
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with the Corolla water cooling, no fans! Swiftech water pump DFI LanParty UT nForce3 250Gb 2x512mb A-Data Vitesta DDR500 CL2.5 Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro with Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer rev.3 Be Quiet 400W psu and so on
heh, now go get some car parts ... I tried 2500MHz quickly and it was ok, when I'm writing this I'm still testing this system and trying to find out the limits... Hope I can reach 2.8GHz. TODO: Paint the radiator.
it runs much better than a toyota, or I think so, I have a feeling I have never actually driven a toyota. The overall performance increase is just awesome, when overclocking these amd64 cpu's.
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Wow, I must try this with my AMD64 3000+ I managed to get mine upto 243 FSB on Stock fan (with another next to it) running about 70+ degrees C scable. It was a cold night
This post has been edited by daBigBoss: Oct 31 2004, 03:28 PM
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The car radiator is a cool idea 1/12. Would you have a go at connecting several systems up in series to one radiator?
QUOTE Anti-Freeze stops water from freezing, it doesn't actually cool anything.
Anti-freeze works by lowering the temperature that water freezes, effectively allowing the water to cool below zero without dropping out of it's liquid state. If such a watercooling system was set-up with a heat-exchanger (like a freezer) it would run much cooler than with ordinary water.
Oct 25 2004, 12:32 PM
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