a waterblock, a piece of art.. what do you think

[Ferenczyg]

Take a look at this, is a full DIY waterblock for PC CPU. I am the only one that think that is a beauty?

[Cold Fusion]

Amazing.

[Ferenczyg]

more pictures:

http://www.devilmaster.org/modules.p...nails&album=65

construction process (in spanish, use babelfish.altavista.com to translate if you want)

http://www.devilmaster.org/sections....rtid=18&page=1

[foamcutter]

Very Very Nice Work.

Ron

[NeoMoses]

I've commented on this before, but that is by far the best looking waterblock I've seen. #2 would have to be a lot of the work done by bladerunner (www.zerofanzone.com)

The best part is the fact that that was made on a drill press! Amazing finishing to have started with limited tools. Any comments on how long it took to make?

[balsaman]

What's with all the buzz on water cooling your computer these days? How much overclocking can you acheive this way?

Those are peices of art, not water blocks.

Eric

[Bloy2004]

Originally posted by balsaman
What's with all the buzz on water cooling your computer these days? How much overclocking can you acheive this way?

Those are peices of art, not water blocks.

Eric

Nope.. wrong... These are pieces of art AND water blocks

[Todd Price]

Nice work

[NeoMoses]

Originally posted by balsaman
What's with all the buzz on water cooling your computer these days? How much overclocking can you acheive this way?

Those are peices of art, not water blocks.

Eric

Overclocking typically gains about 20% in speed, but gains of 40-50% are not uncommon with standard cooling methods. I now call watercooling a 'standard' cooling method since it has become so popular.

For example, I was running an AMD AthlonXP 1600+ (1400 MHz default speed) at over 2000 MHz for about 2 years. That was a 42.9% increase in speed. Yes, the cooling system cost about $200 to build at the time, but it is still around, cooling a newer (and faster) processor. And, at the time it was built, you could not buy a 2000 MHz computer. So, basically people overclock their computers to get more than they paid for, and to have a faster computer.

[Ferenczyg]

With your permission, Neomoses :

There are two main flavours of watercooling:

1) you can achieve lower or same temps with less noise (main reason to me)
2) you can acieve higher speeds for the same noise, maybe less

So please do not think in WaterCooling only as a freaky way to go higher in MHz but as a intelligent way to keep noise tamed. In my case I never shut down the computer, and watercooling has served to keep my girlfriend sleeping at home more nigths, for example

Of course if you like the look of chrome, plexy and heavy modding take a look at the 'Orac-3' mod -photo below- and to these URLs (4 parts article):

http://www.bit-tech.net/article/114
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/116
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/118
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/119


Fer