shazza's Work Log: My first attempt at Water Cooling - Page 3

Thanks guys.

@ Duke and pdonket ... you guys will be able to do a much better job than I can, just may need to wait a few years when you'll have more time on your hands.

Thanks, guys. Sorry no recent updates. I burnt out my pump on Saturday morning, so got a new one arriving tomorrow. (I'm going on the "don't ask, don't tell" principle wrt how I did something so stupid).

Re the bright lights and colors ... just thought it would be fun to try something new. It will, I imagine, grow tiring in a while.

(Nope - didn't run the pump dry - hooked it up wrong.(

okie dokie ... been a bit quiet lately, but I haven't given up yet!

Burned out my pump last week, so had to wait while a new one came in:




My new pump + 1 with the obligatory Petra's pen and note pic. Decided to get two pumps, cause I might as well do another loop.


Here's one pump opened up. I watched the installation video on Petra's site, so figured I couldn't screw this up - note the large O-ring left in the old top - gotta transfer that to Petra's top:




That was so easy, I installed the top on the other pump as well. Tested out the first pump in my old loop - all works well.


Now - on to the new stuff. Decided to go back to my ASUS P5N32E-SLI board:




Since I was taking everything apart, thought I'd try these:




And, all the blocks mounted on the motherboard:





Hey - wait a minute, what's this on the floor under the table:




Crikees $#@%& ... so much for me knowing how to install the tops on my pumps. Took apart the one I hadn't tested, sure enough - it was missing the O-ring. Whew, glad I found that before I hooked it up.


And now ... a couple pics of my new loop during leak testing:






Slight problem with my loop. The small loop connecting the mosfets isn't going to work - gotta figure something else out - made the loop a little longer and it works okay now:

Wellllll ... with every step forward, we have the potential to go back two...

Got the loops set up for testing in the case:








Everything was working fine ... turned of the PSU, hooked up the fans on the fan controller ... turned PSU back on, started then stopped ... now no power coming from the PSU. I have a spare, but wondering what I did????

EDIT: hooked up the spare PSU, hooked up the pumps, all works fine. Turned it off, and plugged in the other fans just like I did with the other PSU ... everything worked fine and is still working. Guess I'll have to check on a warranty repair for the PCP&C 750W PSU - dang, it's the one that was custom sleeved by Perf-PC's.

Swiftech MCR220 Dual Radiator for the chipset loop. All EK blocks - ASUS 3 for the mosfets, ASUS 1 and 2 for the NB/SB.

Why the derisive comment on the ASUS board? The P5N32E-SLI is actually a very good board. The chipset/mosfet blocks were readily available for it.

The ASUS board is 690i - it's just one model down from the Striker.

Benching and more to come, but first got to finish putting it all together.

Yep, typo - 680i. Nothing wrong with the EVGA other than the lousy MCP fan - which would have been solved with a water block. But - I knew the EK blocks would fit the ASUS board, and wasn't positive on the EVGA, so since I had the ASUS - used it. I'll do something else with the EVGA board down the road. Also wanted to go back to the E6850, which I already had set up with the ASUS board.