Computer Goodies.

[Hahnsb2]

Well computers is my other hobby. Haven't messed with mine in a while but I got a Torture rack for my B-day so I decided to do some work on it, I also added the northbridge into the watercooling loop.
Here's my old case

And heres some pics of me swapping everything over
Messy workspace as usual.

Tubing mock-up.

Bleeding, res bleeds sooo much faster than a t-line.

Assembly

Top view

Side view.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

very cool...water cooling has always peaked my interest.

id like to do it to my next computer build, even though air cooling is more than sufficient for any machine id run....im tired of listening to it

 

[AngryLepercon]

Looks nice!!! My Alienware had a water cool setup on it but I sold it because I wanted something portable. So I went and got me an Alienware laptop. I love the colors. That green would have gone nicely with my Alienware. Good job!

 

[Xploda]

Love the case wicked cool.. I did the swiftech water cooling on my Phenom 9850 still running 2 nx7900gs tho QQ

 

[gebus77883]

WOW ...........you know what you're doing.

nice computer

 

[aaron_ariens]

Lol.
I look at that and then my computer.
Mines SO crappy.

emachines w2040.

I have done all the system restore and defragment things.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

i got you beat, aaron.

1.3 GHz intel celeron
248MB of ram
64MB on-board intel video card
34 gigs of useful HD
dead battery that gives me about 5 minutes of life when not on a/c

its...ahh...slooow. its got an open RAM slot that id like to fill someday so it'll at least have some useful memory. right now, my background applications take up all but 75MB of my physical memory and i rely on paging file to run almost anything extra. cant complain for free i guess

 

[aaron_ariens]

Wow. Thats rough.
My comp does not seam too slow.

I have 8GB of music
and about 4000 pics.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

ahh see i have all my music and most of my pics on my desktop. thats another story:

3GHz P4 w/hyperthreading overclocked to 3.3 GHz
2GB ram
512mb ATI x1650 video
1X150GB master HD, 1X30GB secondary HD
400watt allied power supply
custom case cooling system (on air)

it isnt top of the line by any means, but it does good enough. it runs GTA SA with an increased draw distance mod at a nice and stable frame rate.

 

[sbsumerix]

heres mine an hp laptop
64x2 amd processor
3gb of ram expandable to 4gb
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 265 mb video card
dual 160gb hd with about 80gb unused with 165gb external hard drive
battery is still good but mostly plugged in no where to go

 

[RyanD2]

That is really interesting. I am wanting to build my next machine but as Wicked says I'd never need anything that powerful. Also Wicked, are you saying that there are no fans? "tired of listening to it" Looks like from the pic that there are a few. Sorry, I'm def new to all of that so sorry if it sounds like a dumb question.

 

[aaron_ariens]

That is really interesting. I am wanting to build my next machine but as Wicked says I'd never need anything that powerful. Also Wicked, are you saying that there are no fans? "tired of listening to it" Looks like from the pic that there are a few. Sorry, I'm def new to all of that so sorry if it sounds like a dumb question.

I was wondering the same question.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

water cooling is many times more efficient than air cooling. the fans required on a water setup are smaller and less powerful (quieter) than an equivalent air setup. from the few setups ive seen, the fans shut completely off at idle most of the time and dont have to run at full blast even when loaded.

 

[Twizzler09]

Excellent work on the water cooling!

Would love to do that to my new rig sometime, just a bit paranoid about leakage, though.

AMD X2 BE-2350 2.1ghz "Brisbane"
Sunbeam 580w Power supply
MSI K9N6PGM2 Motherboard (socket AM2)
2GB PNY PC2 5300 (DDR2 667) RAM
Apollo Nvidia GeForce 9600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-X 2.0 (SLI Ready)
Cooler Master 95mm CPU fan

Once I get a proper mid/full tower and better case fans, going to work on overclocking the cpu. All the Brisbane cores are the exact same, just have to up the voltage and it should be good for ~3.0ghz. Mine came factory set at 45w, but the higher end Brisbane cpu's run 65w with a clockspeed a decent chunk higher.

 

[Mark_88]

Wow...old thread, but somehow I missed it...

Nice work Hansb...although I wouldn't go to all that effort for what I do on a computer...unless I decide to start doing something destructive with my talents...bwahahaha...

My computer is an old AMD Athalon XP+ 2200 with about 500 Mb RAM...nothing special...but it kicks as on Facebook...lol