evilangel
12-21-2004, 12:35 AM
Basically I am starting this thread to log my watercooling project which will run in conjunction with my prescott overclocking project. I have almost finished gathering my components for the watercooling rig (just need to buy the pump...looking at a eheim 1250 which pumps around 1200 litres per hour). I have watercooled before and with success but only ever used 3/8 fittings on my old AMD athlon rig. This round i am going 1/2" for a less restrictive flow of liquid. So far the components i have itching to be installed are the Danger Den Maze4 CPU block and the danger den MAZE4 Northbridge block the gpu block is still to be purchased but the pump is more important at this stage. I have always used water as the liquid of choice for my H2O rigs and has always come with that extra risk of having components damaged if the system ever sprung a leak along with the problems of algae and anti corrosion treatment, so i decided to think of trying to find a liquid that was non conductive (Dielectric) and non corrosive (inert) it wasn't until i had read an article on a submersion cooling project where the liquid used was a substance called fluorinert hmmmm sounds interesting, then a few nights back i read a post by glorfy where he had linked to a product which was exactly what i was looking for but alas not available in new zealand......brain starts working overtime....emailing time. I emailed a person i know asking if he knew of any substances similar to this in new zealand to cut the chase i am going to post an edited version of the email that i sent and the email i recieved
just thought i would quickly ask if you know where i can find some stuff similar to inertx it is dielectric and i would like to experiment with it in my watercooling system. it is based on the fluid that was used to cool the cray T90 (perfluorocarbon) according to a review i read on inertx it mentioned it being fluorinert based
I have attached an info sheet (word format) for you to have a look at,
regards
Ross
Reply
Quite toxic though. I got some dielectric fluid that I have lying here, it is called Opticool. I have xxxxxxxxxxxxx of it. I was gonna use it for Submersion 3 but just couldn't find the time to do it. I also have some Fluorinert but they are highly toxic when burned. Mind you the boiling point for Fluorinert is about 400°C. But still....
As soon as i got this reply i was jumping for joy i had managed to source some nonconductive cooling liquid due to privacy reasons i do not wish to disclose inpublic on who i have been dealing with however those who have spoken to me on msn ;) have a fair idea. The stuff i will be getting my hands on has better advantages like the ability to fill in small gaps and pockets better than water (water wetter needs to be used to achieve similar results)
hopefully the moderators don't mind me posting the beginnings of this project log here it will be a few weeks before i update it with some results
also i will be retiring the MSI 865PE-platinum for an Abit IC7 due to the fact MSI has kindly blocked access to the vcore settings while running prescott cpu's
feel free to post any comments or questions regarding this project :thumbs:
P.S parts of quoted emails have been edited or censored to protect the privacy of my contact to the best of my ability
just thought i would quickly ask if you know where i can find some stuff similar to inertx it is dielectric and i would like to experiment with it in my watercooling system. it is based on the fluid that was used to cool the cray T90 (perfluorocarbon) according to a review i read on inertx it mentioned it being fluorinert based
I have attached an info sheet (word format) for you to have a look at,
regards
Ross
Reply
Quite toxic though. I got some dielectric fluid that I have lying here, it is called Opticool. I have xxxxxxxxxxxxx of it. I was gonna use it for Submersion 3 but just couldn't find the time to do it. I also have some Fluorinert but they are highly toxic when burned. Mind you the boiling point for Fluorinert is about 400°C. But still....
As soon as i got this reply i was jumping for joy i had managed to source some nonconductive cooling liquid due to privacy reasons i do not wish to disclose inpublic on who i have been dealing with however those who have spoken to me on msn ;) have a fair idea. The stuff i will be getting my hands on has better advantages like the ability to fill in small gaps and pockets better than water (water wetter needs to be used to achieve similar results)
hopefully the moderators don't mind me posting the beginnings of this project log here it will be a few weeks before i update it with some results
also i will be retiring the MSI 865PE-platinum for an Abit IC7 due to the fact MSI has kindly blocked access to the vcore settings while running prescott cpu's
feel free to post any comments or questions regarding this project :thumbs:
P.S parts of quoted emails have been edited or censored to protect the privacy of my contact to the best of my ability