• Water Cooling Articles and Information
• Flushing & Cleaning your Water Cooling System
• How to Water cool your computer Step-by-step w/ Pictures
• Watercooling Insulating the cpu socket
• Insulating waterblocks and tubing
• How to build a water tower (bong)
• Make your own PVC Reservoir for under $15

For those of you who want to get into water cooling or already are, here are some articles on Water Cooling suggested by our users.

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by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:45:28

For those of you running water cooling to keep your temperatures low it is suggested to clean your water cooling system as it tends to build up a "sludge substance" that can block you systems tubing causing temperatures to rise. Here are instructions on How to clean you water cooling system

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by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:45:53

For you extreme OCers out there that want to take cooling to the next level, here is a link for you.

How to Water cool your computer Step-by-step w/ Pictures

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by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:46:10

I saw that some people had been looking into waterchillers/pelts so I thought I would make a little guide for sealing up the cpu socket and surrounding area.

So you may be asking why would anyone need to do this? The simple answer is condensation. When you have a cold surface it will draw moisture out of the air causing small water droplets to forum on the surface. These small drops get larger and larger as more condensation forums. Eventually the water will drip off and kill something in your computer.

Pictures and guide can be found Here

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by Exit edited by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:46:28

Insulating the outside of a water block was never something I had though of doing. I soon found out just how important it was after some water sweated off my CPU water block and fried my 9500pro. After making my waterchiller I saw some condensation forming on the outside of my water block but didn't think too much of it. That was when I had first made my chiller and it was not running at it's full potential. After some tweaking you can see why it was imperative that all my water blocks be fully insulated


So this is my guide to insulating a water block….the outside that is.

Materials
1. Neoprene
2. Silicone
3. Hair dryer

The actual process of doing this is very simple.

I will use pictures from the installation of my MCW 50-T water block for examples.

Steps
1. Coat the entire outside of the water block with a layer of silicone and make sure there is NO exposed metal. Then take the hair dryer and blow it over the silicone for a few minutes until it slightly changes colour and becomes solid.


Make sure you get the sides like shown here


2. Add a second layer of silicone over that layer, but do not take a hair dryer to it yet
3. Cut out pieces of neoprene to cover the outside area of the block. When I insulated my MCW5000-PT I used 6 separate pieces of neoprene
-2 for the sides of the block
-4 for the top
MCW 5000 PT with all the neoprene on top and sides.


4. Once you have them cut place them on the freshly applied silicone and hold them on until they stick.
5. Once again take the hair dryer and heat up the silicone until it cures.
6. Now you need to go nut's with the silicone. You want to have at least 0.5cm of silicone covering any parts of the water block that don't have neoprene on them. If you don't have enough silicone the cold will get to the outside and cause sweat to form on the silicone which defeats the purpose of the insulation.

Finished product.........nobody said it would be pretty


7. Now check to make sure all the spaces between the neoprene pieves are sealed up and then break out the hair dryer again.

You will also need to put a gasket around the base of the water block and insulate your cpu socket.

You can follow this guide to insulating your socket Here

Once everything has cured hook the block to your cooling system and run the cold water through it for a few hours. If no water shows up on the outside you've done a good job.

You will also need to insulate all your tubing as it will also sweat. The simplest way go about this is to go to home depot and buy some self sealing pipe insulation. It's about $1 for 6' of the stuff and it lasts forever.

All you do is put in over your tubing making sure it covers your entire tube all the way upto your water block barbs and then put one piece of tape (or zipties) at either end of the insulation and let the self adhesive do the rest.

A few pictures (sorry about the fan)


One thing I have learned from some others is that you do not want to make the pipe insulation to tight as this will cause you more problems with the pipes sweating.

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by Exit edited by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:46:56

This is a way of cooling the water if you choose to water cool your computer. You can find detailed information at:

Evaporative Cooling Tower


Or see how one of our BBR members did it. Here
A lot of good info here

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by Maranello edited by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:47:15

Today, I am going to show you how to build your own easy-fill, external reservoir for under $15. All of the parts can be bought at any local hardware store, and the assembly time is under 20 minutes. Not bad huh?

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by Exit edited by FastEddie
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:47:31