New water cooling build

[Flamer]

I have bought the Swift Tech 22501 cooling kit and it seems to work very well. This kit has the double radiator that will not fit inside most cases so that is where the fun starts:) So I needed something to put the kit in and think of a good location to place the completed kit. I went to a shop with what I felt would be a very nice sized steel box for the kit, It actually need to be bigger and it is hard to believe because this thing is huge.

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And here is the other side with the 4 120mm fans :)

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This is the inside view of the box, there is a divider in place to keep the air flow on the radiator side.

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And this is the inside of the case view

[Flamer]

I did have a few issues with getting the kit set up and that was my fault. Swifttech recomends to put the pump in the bottom of the case but I chose to put it in the box. This made priming the system very hard and time consuming but once it was the pump was primed I was able to bleed and fill the system.

After the first boot I noticed my temps were 5 degrees higher then before using the famed swiftteck mcx4000 and 4,000 rpm 80mm fan and I was very confused by this because I have almost 250 cfm blowing across the radiator. I checked everything and then I removed the block from CPU and noticed it made poor contact . I cleaned of the AS5 then reaplied it and put the block back on. The block is a very tight fit in the intel retainer so be sure if you use this block you seat it good.

I am using a crap 2.8c d1 stepping on a p4c800-e deluxe that the highest stable overclock on air error free was 245 fsb @ 1.675 vcore set in bios and my temps with the mcx4000 under full load were between 34 and 36. With this watercooler I was able to hit 249 fsb with the same voltage but my temps are 25-26 under full load and they are around 20 idle.

So I think a 10 degree drop was well worth the work but now I need to find a 2.8 that will do 260+:)

[Jim]

Very nice...how about a low mileage 2.4C? ;)

[RotorHead]

Nice one samcolt !! :D

I like it!