| The hardware: | Athlon XP-M 2400
Kingston Hyperx 3000 2-2-2-6 2x512mb DFI Ultra Infinity (socket A Nforce2) And the rest of my old system... Water cooling: DangerDen maze4 Water block DangerDen Black Ice Pro Radiator Evercool Aluminum 120mm fan DangerDen Round reservoir Eheim 1250 Inline Pump Cleaflex 60 Tubing, Distilled water, Zeroz Racing Fluid |
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All of my goodies laid out on my bed ready to be used! |
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My Poor Used Maze4. |
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Got a nice 15 minute lap job. Some 600grit then a bit of 1500grit. Also I had to drill the threads OUT to be able to use the 4hole mounting system instead of the socket holdown (my mobo doesn't let the socket holdown fit) |
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I mocked up the top radiator with the fan planned to be on the outside since aluminum looks cool and I wanna pull air through, not push. |
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Got that Rad placed and screwed in, So is the fan. |
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I took a good 30 minutes planning how I wanted the watercooling parts located. It takes a little planning. Then I placed the items in their locations and measured off tubing to fit leaving a bit of extra length just in case. |
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This wasn't as hard as I thought it all would be. Being my first WC setup and all. I mixed distilled water (couldn't find any de-ionized) with the racing fluid at about 1:15 , 1:20ish proportions. then circulated it all in the system and shook things up to get rid of the air bubbles and let it run for a few hours. |
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With it being about 3am (pulling an all nighter working on the rig) I decided I would sleeve my PSU with all the goodies from SVC I got. Took me almost 3 hours to do it all. |
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I had these two animals protecting me from all the scary creatures that go bump in the night while I sleeved the PSU. |
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Since i had to de-thread those 4 holes in the waterblock (so the screws would move through those holes freely) to mount the sucker. It all went pretty good. Got the AS3 on and then tightened down all the springs and stuff! |
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Time for a test run! I had to empty out the system and detach the damn reservoir to slide in the mobo tray again with everything in it. I threw some paper towels around to make sure no leaks were happening. |
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I slipped in the PSU and started wiring everything up. I wanted a neat inside so I tucked all the wiring out as you see. |
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it doesn't get much neater than that. |
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Well everything is done mod wise and everything back to normal! |
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Ain 't she purty? my 2 channel rheobus I have the top 120mm fan on one channel and I have the top 80mm exhaust and the side 80mm intake bridged on the 2nd channel. |
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It doesn't get much cleaner or nicer than this. |
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I also have two temp probes that attached to my rheobus. I ran one hiding along the top of the mobo and slid it into the north bridge heat sink. The second temp probe is shoved into the radiator fins. |
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here it is with the side panel on with the lights on. Its a shame I'm hiding the cool watercooling and the pretty wire management under a non windowed panel. |
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I sure do love the Ford Lightning Logo though. That mod took me a good 4 hours to do. Oh yeah I own a 99 Ford lightning. |