dazzerx2000 Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Hi everyone I have very little experience with water cooling equipment and could use some advice from the people who know best in these forums I need to know how to boost the hydrocool 200ex to cool all of the following components. My spec is as follows: 1. 2x amd opteron 246 (2gh) overclocked to 2.2ghz 2. 4x hard disk drives all 7200 3. Nvidia G-force 6800 GT overclocked to ultra levels 4. North bridge memory controller I already have all the 1/4inch blocks to cool the equipment above (all koolence stuff) but what I need to know is how I can boost the HC’s maximum of I think 200watts of heat dissipation to facilitate cooling all the equipment (e.g what radiator or reservoir made by who ect) and in witch order I should set stuff up e.g: Cpu1----->cpu2---->radiator---->6800---->?????? One last thing ill be purchasing all recommended equipment from frozen.cpu as it’s where I previously got all my blocks and I can trust them not to do fraud with my CC details. Thanx for any help received I know this post should really belong in 2cpu.com but its more to do with the HC than anything plus I have already made a post there on how to get the cpu blocks to fit my board bear with this I know it’s a long winded question and please make this as cheep as possible for me as my system has already taxed me to the limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Heh, 2cpu.com and HoH go way back :) I don't think it's possible for 1 HC to be able to cool all of that without some serious frankensteining. Possibly 2 HCs could do it though. I'm no WC expert, but I'll send out a call to some guys, see what their opinions are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerx2000 Posted November 23, 2004 Author Share Posted November 23, 2004 :D: ......thanx Wired yeh i was thinking that to my original idea was to buy two HC units but then i got thinking thats way to much money and also i would feel a little over the top :sigh!: opted the second HC for the idea of dual 17inc tft's for work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 mmmm..... dualie monitors... mmmm..... I've PM'd some guys, hopefully they'll check their PMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Hi everyone I have very little experience with water cooling equipment and could use some advice from the people who know best in these forums I need to know how to boost the hydrocool 200ex to cool all of the following components. My spec is as follows: 1. 2x amd opteron 246 (2gh) overclocked to 2.2ghz 2. 4x hard disk drives all 7200 3. Nvidia G-force 6800 GT overclocked to ultra levels 4. North bridge memory controller cheep as possible for me as my system has already taxed me to the limit. 1 question this unit traveling to lanpartys or anchor'ed to home base Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerx2000 Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 Home base i think???? i was thinking if i get a really good radiator to connect after both cpu1 & 2 then after the 6800 place a second small radiator maybe that will do something for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bio-Hazard Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 That's a lot of restriction for any one pump system. If all you're going to cool is the 2 CPU and the GPU, a second radiator would make the system handle the heat load. All you'd need to do is find a radiator that has changable or 1/4 inch barbs and you're all set. You could also mod a heater core to get all the cooling you need in a single package, but that takes a little time but it's the cheapest way to go. Here's one of the heater cores I modded for my custom external water cooling system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerx2000 Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 Hi Bio-Hazard thanx for the input that again was another fear of mine that the pump possibly just couldn’t handle going through all that stuff. That’s a good mod you did on that radiator I remember reading a post when you did it I think but your modding skills fare surpass that of mine getting the parts alone would be a problem for me, so saying that I have found a low flow radiator made by koolance so I was thinking maybe that would help its cheep and seems ok tell me what you think. One last thing I have to buy some motherboard stuff from them so it would be good to group my order and cut down on shipping costs!......... Two of these raidiators then about four of these 1/4 to 1/2 tubing converters. bI was thinking of setting them in series like: HC--->Cpu1--->cpu2--->rad1--->gpu--->rad2--->north bridge--->HD 1&2 (koolance HD cooler) ------>HD 3&4 (koolance HD cooler)--->HC wills this kill the HC pump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bio-Hazard Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 That seems alot for the pump, but there are some other options out there that take very little modding. You could replace the pump with the a Danger Den D4 or Swiftech MCP650, one of them might be enough to push all that stuff. To be honest with you though, I really see no reaso to water your HD as long as you have good air flow over them. And unless you intend on going for some extreme overclocks, there isn't much of a need to water cool the NB either. They add to much restriction to the system for what you get out of them. If I were you, I'd stick with juct cooling your CPUs and GPU to see how it works for you. Then after, if you feel that you need more cooling you can add it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerx2000 Posted November 25, 2004 Author Share Posted November 25, 2004 Yeh your probably right it’s just that in my haste I bought a full set of blocks online along time ago for everything as I had plans for two HC’s but now I could do with scrapping the idea of putting the HD’s on water as it also involved modding my case to get them dam koolance HD coolers to fit in as I don’t have an official koolance case ok ive decided to take your advice and stick with just the cpu’s and gpu with that passive radiator in between them :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 handy with solder and torch? if using all cpu's,nb,hd, 5 WB's i'd think of using 2 manifold's made out of 1.25" copper pipe with 1/2(ID)inlet right from HCX unit and barb'ed 1/4 outlets on the pipe. this way you won't be reheating the cooling media and just add more rad area for the extra WB's at the return manifold. an flow test all WB's before using, may have to add shut-offs to regulate flows of each wb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 Got a response from one of the PMs I sent out: The HC was designed only to cool one processor and a whole thermal capacity of 200 watts for a system. Without modding, he's going no where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerx2000 Posted November 28, 2004 Author Share Posted November 28, 2004 Thanx for all your help wired im just gonna cool the cpu’s and possibly the gpu as well with a small low flow radiator in between and hope for the best my only concern is that the pump may suffer from all this but its worth a try I already bought the blocks along time ago and it would be a waste to not go ahead. When I get a camera ill post up some picks in the gallery thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 28, 2004 Share Posted November 28, 2004 Kewlness! We'll hopefully have a real gallery soon, in fact I may attempt to set it up tonight on my webspace, kinda forgot about the gallery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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