sooooo.... my 4870 blew while the gf was playing gta4 on the rig... dumb as i was i forgot to hock up the fans on the radiator after i was at a lan, so the rig has stood 4 hours idle, and then went bsod after 1.5 hours of intense gaming... not bad considdering the whole thing was passive cooled the whole time...
beacuse of the hot fluid, one of the xspc resevoirs leaked, so now its time for
DnA - Revisited
major changes
-i dumped the harddrive loop.. wasnt worth the extra space. the radiator is going inside the primary loop.
-the radiator is going of the case, and im currently making an external stand for it.
-the resevoirs on the top is gone. an acrylic plate will cover up the wholes.
-tube size has been cut down from 19 OD to 9 OD, and tubing will be black with Koolance compression fittings
-i will put a Koolance Inline resevoir inside the case. it will be held by a custom cut black acrylic stand.
-fluid will be blue Koolance fluid. only place it will be visible is in the pump, and the resevoir. as mentioned the hoses is going to be black tygon.
i will have my watercooling parts tuesday, and might get the res stand cut this weekend, or next week.
it kinda suck to be blowing off another 175$ on watercooling, but i hope it will be worth it. (+ new parts yay!)
pics will follow with next update on the watercooling
stay tuned!
thought i might as well start a new thread since this will be a bit of a rebuild
-p0Pe
Edit:
just a quick update so you know what im talking about
parts:
fittings will all be theese:
and
resevoir will be this one:
fluid:
enjoy