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The Ultimate Water Cooler Project... - 2005/02/24 18:49
These days if you want to overclock your PC with the standard off the shelf heatsink and fan are just not upto the job. They provide sufficient cooling at the CPU's default speed but with increasing the Core speed and voltage this produces alot of heat and we all know heat is bad for CPU's, GPU's and memory and the overall system.
So this story is about my Water Cooling Project which to be honest with you has taken me about 2 years to have the bottle to do.
I have been look at various water cooling solutions over the past few years and one thing that has always struck me about them is that the water reservoir are very small indead, some only holding a couple hundred ml of water, which requires addional radiators and fans to cool the water being pumped round the system.
In my opinion this defeats the object for water cooling as its not only for cooling the system but also for running a silence system.
So I started to gather parts and components for my project, it started of with in my opinion with the best case money could buy the Yeong Yang YY-0221 Server Cube. Here is a link with some nice pictures of the case.
Yeong Yang YY-0221 Cube Server Case
It cost around £180 inc vat at the time. What is so special about this case you ask? It has two chambers inside it, on one side of the case is the motherboard chamber and on the otherside is the harddrive/CD-Rom and power supply chamber thus keeping the vital compents free from clutter and heat build up of the other compents.
Spec are...
- 6 x 5 1/4 bays
- 2 x 3 1/2 bays
- 8 x 3 1/2 Harddrive bays (cooled by two 60mm fans)
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