As some people may have read in my "Watercooling the rack" thread, I am gearing up for building a watercooled rack with the pump, res etc all being on the rack side.
As a precursor to this and to get a better feel for watercooling I have decided to do a C6100 node workstation build that will be watercooled. This will be the build log.
I want to thank S0lid for all the hard work he has done on working out how to power the C6100 node outside of the chassis. Check out his threads.
Assests for this build.
A bit of cash (not that much but some to play with).
Some Acrylic pieces (10mm & 6mm sheets and 30mm x 25mm x 25mm blocks).
A CNC mill for cutting the acrylic and possibly some aluminium but still learning to use.
Usual tools (Jigsaw, drill, hammers etc).
Blue and red coolant.
XS-PC waterblocks (x2).
Some standard tubing and connectors.
A small water pump.
2x temp LED screens with probes (one red, one blue).
A mezzanine PCIe x8 convertor.
A USB cable for the USB plug under the PCIe x16 slot.
Current design thoughts...
I always liked the look of the binary liquid explosive in Die Hard (x). Two tubes with different coloured liquid. I am thinking of going this way with two loops (one per cpu) and different colour coolant in each. Of course the downside is that two loops = twice as expensive (roughly)...
I also stumbled across Primochills acrylic tube system allowing you to use acrylic tubes and use heat to bend them then attach with their fittings which also have G 1/4" screws to allow connection to standard watercooling items. The tubes I can get locally and pretty cheaply but the connectors are very expensive. I am currently working on around 12 connectors per loop (including fill and drain ports) which would come to around US$80.
I could make the reservoirs myself if it was not for adding the thread at the top and bottom. I am really not sure how I could go about doing that. I do have a 4th Axis on the CNC but have no experience with creating threads using it.
I am looking at using 2x single 120mm radiators at the back of the case, the two cylinder res will be at the bottom under an acrylic plate which is holding the motherboard. I am not yet decided on placement of any hard drives / ssd or which type of PSU to use and where to place it. I have a very rough sketch but will see if I can do a better one over the weekend.
Things I am looking for...
Dual loop pumps (keeping the loops seperate).
Dual loop radiators (keeping the loops seperate).
Any other suggestions.
I have no plans to add a watercooled video card at this time.
I hope to make this a show piece depending on how well it comes out.
RB
As a precursor to this and to get a better feel for watercooling I have decided to do a C6100 node workstation build that will be watercooled. This will be the build log.
I want to thank S0lid for all the hard work he has done on working out how to power the C6100 node outside of the chassis. Check out his threads.
Assests for this build.
A bit of cash (not that much but some to play with).
Some Acrylic pieces (10mm & 6mm sheets and 30mm x 25mm x 25mm blocks).
A CNC mill for cutting the acrylic and possibly some aluminium but still learning to use.
Usual tools (Jigsaw, drill, hammers etc).
Blue and red coolant.
XS-PC waterblocks (x2).
Some standard tubing and connectors.
A small water pump.
2x temp LED screens with probes (one red, one blue).
A mezzanine PCIe x8 convertor.
A USB cable for the USB plug under the PCIe x16 slot.
Current design thoughts...
I always liked the look of the binary liquid explosive in Die Hard (x). Two tubes with different coloured liquid. I am thinking of going this way with two loops (one per cpu) and different colour coolant in each. Of course the downside is that two loops = twice as expensive (roughly)...
I also stumbled across Primochills acrylic tube system allowing you to use acrylic tubes and use heat to bend them then attach with their fittings which also have G 1/4" screws to allow connection to standard watercooling items. The tubes I can get locally and pretty cheaply but the connectors are very expensive. I am currently working on around 12 connectors per loop (including fill and drain ports) which would come to around US$80.
I could make the reservoirs myself if it was not for adding the thread at the top and bottom. I am really not sure how I could go about doing that. I do have a 4th Axis on the CNC but have no experience with creating threads using it.
I am looking at using 2x single 120mm radiators at the back of the case, the two cylinder res will be at the bottom under an acrylic plate which is holding the motherboard. I am not yet decided on placement of any hard drives / ssd or which type of PSU to use and where to place it. I have a very rough sketch but will see if I can do a better one over the weekend.
Things I am looking for...
Dual loop pumps (keeping the loops seperate).
Dual loop radiators (keeping the loops seperate).
Any other suggestions.
I have no plans to add a watercooled video card at this time.
I hope to make this a show piece depending on how well it comes out.
RB