my new watercooled setup
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rotating the radiator 90/180/270 degrees will require drilling new holes and i don't have the time to go to such measures. it was a shortsight i should have fixed when i was planning out the system but for now i'll just live with it.
i've now narrowed down the cause of the highish temps to 4 good reasons:
1) temperature reading is the cpu socket temp which receives next to now airflow with a wc setup, hence it reads a higher temp (this is explained well on the swiftech site)
2) crappy cpu waterblock and mounting.
3) too small radiator - will upgrade to a heatercore later.
4) order of tubing: should be pump -> radiator -> cpu, not pump -> cpu. The pump is putting a significant amount of heat into the loop.
edit: not really 'narrowing it down' to these 4 reasons as such - more like, these are the 4 reasons why it isn't performing well.
rotating the radiator 90/180/270 degrees will require drilling new holes and i don't have the time to go to such measures. it was a shortsight i should have fixed when i was planning out the system but for now i'll just live with it.
i've now narrowed down the cause of the highish temps to 4 good reasons:
1) temperature reading is the cpu socket temp which receives next to now airflow with a wc setup, hence it reads a higher temp (this is explained well on the swiftech site)
2) crappy cpu waterblock and mounting.
3) too small radiator - will upgrade to a heatercore later.
4) order of tubing: should be pump -> radiator -> cpu, not pump -> cpu. The pump is putting a significant amount of heat into the loop.
edit: not really 'narrowing it down' to these 4 reasons as such - more like, these are the 4 reasons why it isn't performing well.
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Umm.. You dont have to redrill holes etc... just let it (the rad) 'hang' to get rid of the airlock.
Your other 4 reasons whilst holding water, I think are.... only to be followed,
once your sure you have no airlocks in your rad ,..like the other posts have shown concern over the same thing.
Besides... if you prove that.. you can say... "Pete... Go back to sacrificing goats"
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Your other 4 reasons whilst holding water, I think are.... only to be followed,
once your sure you have no airlocks in your rad ,..like the other posts have shown concern over the same thing.
Besides... if you prove that.. you can say... "Pete... Go back to sacrificing goats"
yours humbly(?)
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I think the idea was not to tilt it long term, but just for a few minutes to get rid of the suspected airlock in the rad. You could probably do pretty well just by picking it up and tilting. I would probably lean the case back onto it's backside. If you have the res filled all the way then you should be OK with doing a momentary tilt. If you have as big an air bubble as I expect, the res may end up full of air, and you will need to repeat the fill and tilt drill a couple of times, but that will GREATLY improve your cooling. If you have the size bubble I suspect you may be loosing 50% or more of your possible flow.Chylld:
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True - somehow it always seems to take longer to fix it than it does to have done it right in the first place... :p However I don't know that it would take THAT much work to just do the rad flip. I agree that other fixes would be harder, but I don't see why that one would be a big problem.rotating the radiator 90/180/270 degrees will require drilling new holes and i don't have the time to go to such measures. it was a shortsight i should have fixed when i was planning out the system but for now i'll just live with it.
Possible, no real way to tell without some form of better temp readout.i've now narrowed down the cause of the highish temps to 4 good reasons:
1) temperature reading is the cpu socket temp which receives next to now airflow with a wc setup, hence it reads a higher temp (this is explained well on the swiftech site)
Possibly the mounting - though the block itself is supposedly pretty decent. Is there any way you can bend anything on the mount to make it press a bit harder?2) crappy cpu waterblock and mounting.
The small rad isn't helping, but I suspect the vapor lock is more of a problem. Just as a quick thought, if you turn off just the fan, does the rad get warm? If not, there is definitely a flow prob with the rad, it should get just as warm as any other part in the system without airflow to make it cold.3) too small radiator - will upgrade to a heatercore later.
DEFINITELY NOT!!! The entire 'component order' thing is a myth generated by poor thinking and the older badly designed low flow systems. In any system with a decent flow rate (i.e >1/2 GPM (1-2 LPM) there will be less than 1*C difference between the highest and lowest temps in the loop, and there will be no significant difference in CPU temp due to component sequence.!4) order of tubing: should be pump -> radiator -> cpu, not pump -> cpu. The pump is putting a significant amount of heat into the loop.
I repeat the oft made assertion that your biggest single problem is the air bubble that nearly everyone that has posted on this thread thinks is present based on your pix and the rad mount that you used.
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Sounds like a plan. i'll do it right after i post this.Gooserider wrote:I think the idea was not to tilt it long term, but just for a few minutes to get rid of the suspected airlock in the rad. You could probably do pretty well just by picking it up and tilting. I would probably lean the case back onto it's backside. If you have the res filled all the way then you should be OK with doing a momentary tilt. If you have as big an air bubble as I expect, the res may end up full of air, and you will need to repeat the fill and tilt drill a couple of times, but that will GREATLY improve your cooling. If you have the size bubble I suspect you may be loosing 50% or more of your possible flow.Chylld:
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If it presses any harder, the computer shuts down. the cpu core is cracked already, thanks to this waterblock. call me unco, but other people have had mcw5002 problems as well.Gooserider wrote:Possible, no real way to tell without some form of better temp readout.i've now narrowed down the cause of the highish temps to 4 good reasons:
1) temperature reading is the cpu socket temp which receives next to now airflow with a wc setup, hence it reads a higher temp (this is explained well on the swiftech site)Possibly the mounting - though the block itself is supposedly pretty decent. Is there any way you can bend anything on the mount to make it press a bit harder?2) crappy cpu waterblock and mounting.
If i turn off the fan, the cpu temp goes up several degrees very quickly indeed. i figure that this means the rad is doing something...Gooserider wrote:The small rad isn't helping, but I suspect the vapor lock is more of a problem. Just as a quick thought, if you turn off just the fan, does the rad get warm? If not, there is definitely a flow prob with the rad, it should get just as warm as any other part in the system without airflow to make it cold.3) too small radiator - will upgrade to a heatercore later.
i've heard people say this many times but i still do not understand why it is so.Gooserider wrote:DEFINITELY NOT!!! The entire 'component order' thing is a myth generated by poor thinking and the older badly designed low flow systems. In any system with a decent flow rate (i.e >1/2 GPM (1-2 LPM) there will be less than 1*C difference between the highest and lowest temps in the loop, and there will be no significant difference in CPU temp due to component sequence.!4) order of tubing: should be pump -> radiator -> cpu, not pump -> cpu. The pump is putting a significant amount of heat into the loop.
actually i just thought about it for a few seconds and now i understand.
right, i don't know much about mainframes so i didn't get what you were saying at first. (i assumed you meant to type 'water-cooled').
water cooling is extreme and it is by no means necessary. those of us that do it do it for fun, and often we have good reason to watercool as well (higher stability when overclocked, and silence, at the same time.)
having said that, processor heat output is constantly on the rise - watercooling is simply a way to keep ahead of ever-toughening cooling requirements - and in style too, i might add.
water cooling is extreme and it is by no means necessary. those of us that do it do it for fun, and often we have good reason to watercool as well (higher stability when overclocked, and silence, at the same time.)
having said that, processor heat output is constantly on the rise - watercooling is simply a way to keep ahead of ever-toughening cooling requirements - and in style too, i might add.
well it's been raining cats and dogs here in sydney for the past few days so the ambient is down a few degrees - as such cpu temp has now dropped to 49-51C.
i think i need to get my hands on a temperature probe to get accurate cpu temp readings.
but yeh recently i've been real busy and actually need to use the computer - no time to fiddle with it.
i think i need to get my hands on a temperature probe to get accurate cpu temp readings.
but yeh recently i've been real busy and actually need to use the computer - no time to fiddle with it.
chylld i remember on my first setup cpu temps read about 15 deg c higher than they actually were because there are no longer any fans around the cpu area and the still block of air where the cpu probe was made the temps read higher than they were untill i placed a fan over that area... just something for you to try really