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"Pipe Dreams"

Category

Cooling

Status

Ready for Battle

Deets

I have never seen anyone do a water cooling mod in all copper pipe.

In addition, for this mod I also had to add a custom built radiator system and I inverted a Zalman Fatality case.

I believe this is the first all copper tube cooling system, I have not been able to find anything similar on the internet, and had to design this from scratch. It was designed with cooling being absolute paramount.

Three cool cooling methods in one case:

By inverting the case I can bring all the air in through the front and rear fans and vent through the top radiator system. The copper pipe conducts heat out of the system, and with the air flow over the pipes and transferred out through the top radiator, I have achieved unparalleled cooling.

The custom radiator not only draws air from within the case, but also over the side inlet aluminum fins of the radiator, increasing the efficiency of the radiator cooling system.

The inversion of the Zalman case also means the graphics cards are now at the top of the case, not the bottom, and all the cool air passes over them before being drawn out by the radiator.

Other highlights:

The Swiftech water blocks are modified to accommodate the copper compression fittings, which took five different size angle wrenches to tighten.

Assembled the entire system out of soldered copper pipe which I individually pressure tested and also included is a drain system for periodic system flushing.

Zalman case was disassembled and the upper and lower plates remachined to allow for inversion of case (and resulting in a repaint as all the graphics were upside down). It took considerable time to drill holes through the thick plates, to reaccomodate the case sides (120mm fan holes were cut in the upper plate as well).

Radiator mounting system was constructed from scratch from .050” aluminum and stacked in such a way to allow air to enter underneath from the case and cool air to enter from the sides.

The case and radiator where painted in a black Hamerite finish, giving it a textured iridescent finish that he photos do not do justice.

Results:

So far I do not believe the amazing low temps I am seeing in the stock configuration (processor 45 deg C, graphics cards below 60 deg C, solid after hours of running Crysis). I am doing more testing, and will publish results on line at a later date.

System Specs:

QX6700 Quad Core Intel
Asus Striker Extreme Motherboard
Dual 8800 GTX Graphics Cards
Swiftech CPU, Graphics Cards, Water Blocks, Pump and Reservoir
Power PC Copper 750 Silencer SLI PS