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[Gaspar]

HI guys as some of you may of read I had switched my Watercooling setup from Swiftech blocks over to Danger Dens new line the TDX line. It was by no means a smooth transition. Read the air guy taskes a plunge thread at the end and youll know what IM talking about. Anyway heres an update of where its at. Im using a TDX Cpu block and Maze4 Chipset block. I ditched the DD VPu block for now. I am only on one radiator but I moved it outside the case. Temps are on par with what I had before with the swiftech blocks except I was using 2 radiators heres some pics http://www.abxzone.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11147

[Gaspar]

Here are some more http://www.abxzone.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11150

[Gaspar]

The cpu block
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11151

[Gaspar]

Finished work LOL
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11160

[Snafu]

Cool pics. Looks like the lines run from the Northbridge to the proc then to an upper bay (what's up there?),

Is the last shot for the photo contest? :lol:

See you have the Vantec PCI fans. Wonder how you like them. I have one sitting around and thinking of trying it out.

[Gaspar]

Actually its from the pump to cpu to NB to the Rad which is out side to the Pump and so on infinite I guess. IM still toying with it. Its been a long rough ride.. Lost a res. lost a rad and lost a GPU. As far as the last pic I hadnt included it but feel free..:)

[RotorHead]

Looking at you pictures, I noticed that the rear stock fan grills are still in place and that you mounted the rad behind the lower one, correct?

If that’s the case, then removing the stock fan grill will improve your airflow through the rad, could help with temps a little more. :thumb:

Nice setup by the way. :rock:

[Snafu]

Sounds like it has benn more than a challenge. Sorry to hear but glad you're up and running. Hope it was not your new video card :hide: .

Hopefully, it will loop infinitely :thumbs: . I'm not familiar with water so it was interesting to see the layout. I thought the pump was at the bottom of the case. So I wondered why the lines ran up to the top bay.

Looks like there is a black light in there - cool. I will have to do something to my case to snaz it up a bit.

[Gaspar]

The line runs up to thee top bay thats where I have my bleed and fill gizmo. I will be adding a Black ice micro2 dual rad externally this week.,mounted outside the case and possibly give the reservoir another go. It was leaking. Im not familiar with fill and draining with a reservoir any pointers??

[Snafu]

Thanks. Looks very cool.

Unfortuantely I do not water cool so my only pointers would comes from my experience with cars. Use AN fittings if you can. For bleeding the bleed/fill gizmo is in the right place - at the highest point so any trapped air will rise to the gizmo and out of the system. I would say you have to run the pump (can this be done without turning on your rig?) to let it circulate the coolant and force any trapped air bubbles out.

It would help if you have a drain line with a valve at the lowest point in the system. When the time comes to drain the system you just open up this line and open the feed/bleed gizmo and presto the coolant drains out.

[nutcase]

I cannot tell by the Pictures, But on the DD TDX make sure the Inlet to the Waterblock is on the middle Barb.. This will give the best cooling with the TDX..

I will say, The TDX is a Great Waterblock, But I wish they would come up with a better Mounting system :irk: