Severe Boredom: Design Your Water Cooling Dream System!

[Fibbles]

Well, for my up and comming planned AMD64 system after I pay off my debts, here's 1 (Alphacool Based):

1 Laing DDC Pro (plexi top) 12v Pump with 3 1/4" connectors - 89.95€

1 Black Ice Pro 3 Triple 120mm Radiator - 66.90€

1 (or 2) Watercool AB-G Reservoir with 4 5mm UV LED's - 54.95€

1 Alphacool NexXxos XP Bold - 39.99€

1 Silentstar HD Dual Core - 84.90€

Here's another Aqua Computer Based Config:

1 Silver Edition Cuplex Pro with the AMD XP/64/P4 Plexi Top

1 Twinplex

1 Aquagr6800 Rev2 with Copper Slug

1 Airplex EVO 360

1 Laing DDC Pro 12v - 89.95€

2 Black Aquatubes with 2 UV LED's in each

2 Blue Aquadrives

Another choice for both is to add a Cape Passive Rad or 2, and down size the active rad. In fact, I might mix the 2, adding 1 Aquatube and 1 AG-B.

The Alphacool system is priced because it's in my shopping cart atm.

EDIT** Tubing! I currently use Innovatek UV Blue tubing. It's soft, bendy and very close to Tygon with the price of Tygon <_<. I've got Green Glowmotion in my loop and it doesn't conflict with the blue glow of the tubing, it actually enhances the effect. It's sort of like color shifting paint, the green and blue colors shift depending on the angle, and they glow a very eery blue-green color when not going back and forth. For the fittings, I'd use compression fits. They're sort of harder to use, but the tubes can bend realy well.

[Nexxo]

So many mods, so little time and money...

Well, when I have financially recovered in a few years or so :p the next system is going to be around my Coolermaster ATC-S4000. A chrome BIX3 radiator, aluminium fans all around (Sanyo Denki 109E1224H102), Aqua-Computer cooling, dual CPU, SLI possibly... we'll see.

Alternatively I may design my own case. I would have the window side hidden by a 20" TFT that swings out when the PC is in use. The other side could have an AeroCool 1800 rad which covers the whole side of the case and folds out when in use, to act as a passive rad.

The problem is that there are too many ideas for me to afford to put into practice. I think that is one reason why Metaversa is taking so long... every week I think of another cool idea or a better way to do something on it.

Recently I looked at an Akasa Eclipse-62 case and the fact it has a space in the front bezel for a PCI blanking plate (hidden behind a little door). I thought: wouldn't it be cool to have a 5" LCD screen sliding out and unfolding from behind that door... Aargh. :wacko: Stop. Stop. Can't buy a whole new case for Metaversa just to do this...

[Fibbles]

I know how you feel. I've spent so much on new cases because after I've bought my dream case another one mysteriously appears and I need it. It's a bad and expensive habit. The latest object of desire is a Lian Li PC73SLB. It's fully padded and has space for 6 hard drives. I could stuff 4 in with backpack coolers, and transfer my already cut for a dual rad and Aquatube Lian Li PC71 top panel for easy water cooling ability. The PC71 was cut to remove the hard disk rack, cut and the rivets removed, which I now wish I hadn't done, cause I can't stuff it with hard drives. It doesn't matter really, once I buy a case another one will pop up and the cycle will begin anew.

The cases behind me are: 1 LL PC71, 1 LL V2000, 1 Chenming Dragon, 1 Addtronics 6XXX, and 1 Coolermaster ATC210B. I was able to sell off a few and scrap another 2 for parts.

I NEED TO STOP THIS!!!!

[Risky]

I'm also rather good at designing unaffordable systems. To make it really scary you'd have to go for a server board config of some sort, then you've got dual CPUs and racks of disks. Then you could throw in a southbridge block on any i9xx chipset to add trouble.


My personal obsession would be dual or more loops. Oh and multi-res setups with external cooling...........

[Fibbles]

I'm also rather good at designing unaffordable systems. To make it really scary you'd have to go for a server board config of some sort, then you've got dual CPUs and racks of disks. Then you could throw in a southbridge block on any i9xx chipset to add trouble.


My personal obsession would be dual or more loops. Oh and multi-res setups with external cooling...........I think I remember a socket 940 dual Opteron based Nforce 4 SLI board from Gigabyte a while back, hopefully that board will see the light of day. That, with 2 top of the line Opterons and dual 6800 Ultras, all water cooled with dual reservoirs and a quad loop equals a very very happy Risky ^_^ ^_^ ^_^