MikeTimbers
7th April 2006, 15:23
Some of you may have seen that I won some nice Swiftech stuff on ebay. This is what it used to look like:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/newrig.JPG
That's a hideous old Samcheer server case, my Chevette heatercore, an Eheim 1250, an original LRWW with 1/2" ID Tygon tubing. In fact, I had replaced the motherboard with a second-hand DFI Nforce 3 and an Opteron 146 but never got round to taking a pic of it.
Now I recently built a system for one of my mates and I ended up with a spare Antec SLK3700BQE (http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=00363#) case so I decided to move the system into the nice shiny new case.
Unfortunately, I really didn't think my ghetto water-cooling was going to fit so when I saw the Swiftech auction I bid and got it for a sweet price so put that into the case.
When I came to turn it on, the system wouldn't respond at all so I ordered a new motherboard which resolved that little problem but in the meantime my Tagan PSU had bit the dust so that had to go back for RMA :rolleyes:
Anyways, the system is built and running off a spare PSU.
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/Dscn0036.jpg
One thing I did was to replace the noisy ineffective NForce chipset heatsink and fan. With the original heatsink/fan, the reported chipset temps were in the mid/high 40s C. I removed it and this is what I found:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/Dscn0035.jpg
Any wonder so many motherboards fail? That was providing almost zero cooling!
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/newrig.JPG
That's a hideous old Samcheer server case, my Chevette heatercore, an Eheim 1250, an original LRWW with 1/2" ID Tygon tubing. In fact, I had replaced the motherboard with a second-hand DFI Nforce 3 and an Opteron 146 but never got round to taking a pic of it.
Now I recently built a system for one of my mates and I ended up with a spare Antec SLK3700BQE (http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=00363#) case so I decided to move the system into the nice shiny new case.
Unfortunately, I really didn't think my ghetto water-cooling was going to fit so when I saw the Swiftech auction I bid and got it for a sweet price so put that into the case.
When I came to turn it on, the system wouldn't respond at all so I ordered a new motherboard which resolved that little problem but in the meantime my Tagan PSU had bit the dust so that had to go back for RMA :rolleyes:
Anyways, the system is built and running off a spare PSU.
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/Dscn0036.jpg
One thing I did was to replace the noisy ineffective NForce chipset heatsink and fan. With the original heatsink/fan, the reported chipset temps were in the mid/high 40s C. I removed it and this is what I found:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.timbers/computer/water/Dscn0035.jpg
Any wonder so many motherboards fail? That was providing almost zero cooling!