Adventures in
Water Cooling

On to the water block. I do not have much to say about the water block. Its a Danger Den TDX for Socket T or 775. The series was recommended by someone I met at work. The theoy sounded good and I liked the design. Here are some different pictures then Danger Den site has.


Top shot of the TDX


Side shot of the TDX

The water block was easy to install and no major complications. It is also available with different accelerates nozzles. I have not had the time to change to the different ones but the idea is cool. Maybe sometime.
Hose
I decided to use black fuel line. It is made by GoodYear. This hose is thick walled and has nylon in it. When installing this hose it is very hard to get over the push on connectors. I figured hard to to get on hard to get off. I should have heated it up but did not have the time.

To do the testing I used Prime 95 running twice. One for each CPU. I ran the CPU stress test on both processors for about 10 minutes. Below are the results. Note: the stock test was only run for 3 min or so then I stopped it because the temp was way to high for me as the graph will show.


Water Cooling(WC) vs. stock
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As the graph shows the water cooling system lowered the idle temp about 14.3ºC and lowered the load temps about 29.2ºC. This was what I was looking for in a water cooled system. The best part was the 9-10ºC between idle and load temps compared to 17-21ºC with the stock cooler. This being my first water cooled system I guess I am pretty happy. Can't wait for the next one.

NOTE TO READERS
I used the onboard temperature readings to give the values in this document. These temps should not be used to compare but can be used as informational. Board temps have been known to be off by a lot. If my board is -2ºC on everything and yours is +2ºC on temps then we have a +-4ºC off set. So if my temps differ then yours it just could be your board or mine.
UPDATE
Since the initial install of the water cooling system I have upgraded the mother Board to a Gigabyte 925. I have pushed the overclock to 4.00GHZ. The pictures below will fill in the rest of the details. Also, even with the .6GHz overclock the heat added was about "0". I figured on more heat but idle is still around 38-39 degrees C. The system also seems to have lost the bottle neck that you feel when loading up large games are software. Currently building a new water cooled system with a pentium D 820. Can't wait to get started. Wont have any overclocking until a new motherboard is purchased but ultra low temps will be a great advantage to the Pentium D. A guide and pictures as the project progresses.


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