Watercooled comp

[Lentech]

Kind of wanted to get new tubes for it, some dyed coolant etc..

I have ZERO exp working on water-cooled systems...

any websites that explain how to take one down, how much coolant it needs all that good stuff?

I know its a Coolermaster of some-sorts just cant figure out what one it is...
came in a pre-built ibuypower.com computer

Coolermaster's websites product page shows me nothing that looks like mine..

even typed in serial numbers etc.. cant find a dang thing on it..

[aintnothang]

even typed in serial numbers etc.. cant find a dang thing on it..
What are the numbers?

[aintnothang]

THIS?http://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/main/ex-wat-134.jpgTHIS?

[Lentech]

cant read them atm, give me 5 minutes and ill have them for you

[aintnothang]

ok.

[Lentech]

PL8765N12MC is the model number

[Lentech]

hard to read that puppy with my comp on and my head mashed against the very bottom of the window lol

[Lentech]

want to figure out what kind of tubes i need ( want clear ones ), coolant types to use(want green colored collant), how do drain my current one, to replace tubes, replace fluids etc..

[aintnothang]

This it?http://image8.usedvictoria.com/YYJ8058594.1.jpg

[Lentech]

DUDE! ur the man!!! how'd you find it!! thats exactly what it looks like, tho mines currently in my comp.. fanspeed controller and everything

[Lentech]

This it?http://image8.usedvictoria.com/YYJ8058594.1.jpg

its this 1

[aintnothang]

It looks like 3/8 inch, thats what the other coolermaster kit on newegg is.http://i20.ebayimg.com/08/i/001/23/49/4bb1_1.JPG

[aintnothang]

Check this link out:
http://www.dangerden.com/store/

[Lentech]

This it?http://image8.usedvictoria.com/YYJ8058594.1.jpg

This is the exact model, any idea how much coolant it would take... or any websites with manuals for these things? as too how to drain it, and replacing tubes etc.

[aintnothang]

Replacing the tubing is the easy part.

[Lentech]

figured as much, needed to know tubing size.. now i gotta figure out how to drain this thing, and exactly how much it holds...

Tho i figure if i had a measuring device, i could drain it all into it... and use that as my figure for amount of coolant needed..

Just dunno what kind would be optimal, i checked a few versions at Xoxide.. but dunno...


who knows maybe ill get ballsy and just dive in, only thing that sucks is this is my only functioning computer lol dont wanna screw it up

[aintnothang]

I would save up for an upgrade.

[Lentech]

why it works fine, just want to fancy things up a tad

[Lentech]

after litteraly Hours of searching last night, and this morning i finally stumbled across these stats:

Specifications

Aquagate Mini R80

* Material of Base: Copper
* Dimensions of Base: 2.75 x 3.35 x 0.90 inches (70 x 85 x 23 mm)
* Bearing of Pump: NCB (Nano-millimeter Ceramic Bearing)
* Fan Dimensions: 80 x 80 x 25 mm
* Fan Speed: 1,800 ~ 3,800 rpm
* Airflow: 53.499 CFM
* Air Pressure: 8.658 mm-H2O
* Noise: 24.4 ~37.9 dBA
* Fan Bearing Type: Long life sleeve bearing
* Radiator Material: Aluminum Alloy
* Radiator Dimensions: 3.15 x 4.72 x 1.77 inches (80 x 120 x 45 mm)
* Pipe Dimensions: Two 11.81-inche pipes (300 mm x 2)
* Application: Pentium 4 (Socket 478/LGA 775), Xeon (Socket 603/604), Celeron (Socket 478), Celeron D (Socket 478/LGA775), Sempron (Socket A/754), Athlon XP (Socket A) and Athlon 64 (Socket 754/939/940).
* More Information: http://www.coolermaster.com

Aquagate Mini R120

* Material of Base: Copper
* Dimensions of Base: 2.75 x 3.35 x 0.90 inches (70 x 85 x 23 mm)
* Bearing of Pump: NCB (Nano-millimeter Ceramic Bearing)
* Fan Dimensions: 120 x 120 x 25 mm
* Fan Speed: 800 ~ 2,800 rpm
* Airflow: 106.917 CFM
* Air Pressure: 5.604 mm-H2O
* Noise: 21.3 ~ 35.32 dBA
* Fan Bearing Type: Long life sleeve bearing
* Radiator Material: Aluminum Alloy
* Radiator Dimensions: 4.72 x 6.30 x 1.38 inches (120 x 160 x 35 mm)
* Pipe Dimensions: Two 11.81-inche pipes (300 mm x 2)
* Application: Pentium 4 (Socket 478/LGA 775), Xeon (Socket 603/604), Celeron (Socket 478), Celeron D (Socket 478/LGA775), Sempron (Socket A/754), Athlon XP (Socket A) and Athlon 64 (Socket 754/939/940).
* More Information:



Now to figure out which model i currently own, i have a feeling its the 80mm fan one..

And time to figure out how much fluid this thing holds, and what type... the radiator fan sounds like a Jet engine next to my head.. Time for silence!

:think:

[Spawn-Inc]

what you need to do is toss that POS out before it kills your system do to a pump failing... or the blocks leaking.

prebuilt and non prebuilt kits are all sub par accept for swiftech kits.

Swiftech H20-120 Compact CPU Liquid Cooling Kit (http://www.petrastechshop.com/swh2cocpulic.html)

the above kit will serve you much better and you can upgrade later on once you get the hang of it.

here is a video review

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and here is a link to the tubing you would need to replace the black tubing from the swiftech kit OR your current tubing.

3/8" ID (5/8" OD) Tygon R-3603 (http://www.petrastechshop.com/3id5odtyrlat.html)

what colour of dye do you want? which ever go with feser brand dye, its the best.

i would only order from Petras Tech Shop (http://www.petrastechshop.com/index.html), Jabtech (http://www.jab-tech.com/), or sidewinders (http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/) as far as water cooling products go.

you should also read up more on water cooling before you do anything else.


http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/index.php? Not a noob site, but great stickies
http://www.skinneelabs.com/MartinsLiquidLab/
http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=20277 A GREAT Europe site
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.effizienzgurus.de%2Fm ain%2Findex.php%3Fcontent%3Darticle%26action%3Dvie w_spec_article%26article_id%3D222&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Info on rad testing
http://skinneelabs.com/
http://www.dangerden.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.petrastechshop.com/
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202394

[Lentech]

Excellent thank you spawn,

Yea the Current Watercooling system i have now has been running great for about 4-5 years, not sure what their life time is..

Anyway i gutted an old HP insearch of fans, found what im guessing is 120mm cuz its just a tad bigger then my 80mm side case fan..

I installed the 120mm in the front of my comp..Temps are as follows

GPU : 52c ( Fanless with a 2.5inch Heatsink on it )
temp1: 32c
temp2: 32c
temp3: 32c
HD0 : 31c
temp1: 27c
core 0: 42c
core 1: 41c
core : 53c

These are my Idle Temps.. ill fire up a MMO or two too see what it looks like bogged down

All temps taken with Speedfan


PS ( aiming for green dye, have a green cold cathode )

[Lentech]

"you should also read up more on water cooling before you do anything else."


Where? cant find anything on watercooling.. Googled for hours

[Spawn-Inc]

namely here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202394

and here http://www.ocforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71

as for the fan you found if its a bit bigger then a 80mm fan then it's most likely a 90mm fan, maybe 92mm. get a rule and it will tell you the size.

i'm very surpised the system has worked for so long actually. but your idle temps are high, use prime 95 (http://majorgeeks.com/Prime95_d4363.html) to load all cores and use coretemp (http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/) for the temps of the cpu. report back with load temps.

here are some screen shots i just made with coretemp and prime95
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1430/31103075.jpg

you can see my quad is 100% loaded.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2205/h2t.jpg

[rithunder916]

That swift-tec is awesome! I do support the whole Reading a lot about water cooling before you start modding a system. Its not for the faint of heart, and there needs to be a lot of planning before hand to make sure it all works. if it's a tad bigger than an 80mm fan, then it's probably a 92mm case fan.