911 liquid cooling emergency for my best client

[diluzio91]

Saturday is the LAN for the entire UWL Campus, And my best client just called me and said his pump died in his PC. I don't know if it's possible to get it working, or if there's any way to get him a new one by saturday, but somehow I need to get this thing running liquid through it's veins. Suggestions? He's desperate to get this thing working for what's basicly the biggest event of the season. also switching back to air isn't an option as he mutalated the air heatsinks for his motherboard and there's no way to go back to air cooling.

PLEASE HELP! 1000000 internet dollars and a serious + rep to anyone who gives me a hand.

Edit: So we remembered there's a microcenter in twin cities, so we're going on a road trip for 2 hours (4 round trip) and hopefully the trip is fruitful.

[Kayin]

Microcenter carries pumps. You should be fine.

[SXRguyinMA]

Yea, or check stock before you go. microcenter.com then select your store and it'll say what they have in stock, then call to have someone set it aside for you to be extra sure :)

[diluzio91]

lol. i took his pump apart last night to see what happened, and there was no hope of recovery. the contact points where all completely black, and a controller chip had completely burnt off on it. *Facepalm* the things we do for our computers...

[crenn]

This sums up my response to hearing that:
:pics:

[Twigsoffury]

Pet's mart has some REAL high GPM aquarium pumps.

lucky you i was in pets mart the other day and browsed the pumps

They've got a range between 55GPM and i seen one bad larry that pushed 898GPM.

the one i saw that looked like it would work had a 1" intake a 3/4" outlet. for 69.99 and pushed 120gpm.

[diluzio91]

lol... pics to come

[Kayin]

We used to use aquarium pumps. The ones we have now are far and away better.

[Twigsoffury]

We used to use aquarium pumps. The ones we have now are far and away better.

still works in a pinch though!


And i dunno if you could beat out a 898 gallon a minute aquarium pump, it'd probably blow all the fittings off the blocks and radiators hahaha

[Kayin]

Iwaki RD-30. Some people still use them. Bout the size of a shoebox.

[Twigsoffury]

Iwaki RD-30. Some people still use them. Bout the size of a shoebox.

Hey thats only 132GPM behind the eheim 1262 series

http://www.aquasythe.com/images/EheimUnivPump1.jpg


Thats the same pump they use at public supply for the glass cleaners.


(it'll shoot a jet of water a good 3' into the air vertically)

http://i55.tinypic.com/2qi6zq8.jpg

[SXRguyinMA]

:pics:

[diluzio91]

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/306375_10150356019348426_601993425_8221453_5095704 45_n.jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/294755_10150356019408426_601993425_8221454_7102613 20_n.jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/316469_10150356019443426_601993425_8221455_1717856 394_n.jpg

http://hphotos-iad1.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/296386_10150356019478426_601993425_8221457_4948840 87_n.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

That's what i'm talking 'bout.

[SXRguyinMA]

if you don't want that pump I'll take it :D

[diluzio91]

lol. i was looking for a replacement pcb for it actually.

[Kayin]

Ebay, be prepared to mod heavily.