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Lately, the temperature of my cpus have been rising over 40 degrees
Celcius, so I decided that it is time to take out the water cooling
system and replace it with two Kanie hedgehogs using fairly quiet
60mm fans.
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I started by checking the water flow, and it was very poor, which explains
why the temperature was getting higher. The amount of water flow shown
here is actually enough to cool two cpus. However, I was afraid that the
flow would stop completely and burn my cpus.
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If you take a look at this picture you
might understand why water flow was so low. There is tons of stuff
growing in the water, even though I put lots of algaecide in it.
The plastic in the water is actually the plastic-wrap that I used
to cover the pot with. I didn't exactly want to stick my hand in
there and fish it out.
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This is my computer, it is big and heavy. (48.5 lb).
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In this picture you can see one of the reasons it is soo heavy:
The inside of the two doors are lined with Accumat. The accumat
material might not look like much, but it is not lightweight.
You can also see the total mayham of cables inside my computer
in this picture. :)
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Here is what my water cooling system looked like on the inside.
The green tubing is regular fishtank air-hose, which might not have
been the best choice, because some of the tubing has begun to develop
kinks, which hamper the flow of water.
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After taking out the waterblocks and opening them up, you can see
another reason why there was soo little water flowing: GUNK!
There is GUNK growing inside the waterblocks. The gunk can be
removed with an old toothbrush or something, but you still have
to clean it out about once a month or so. I don't want to do that,
so I'm replacing the water cooling with regular fans...
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There, all done. Now my computer weighs 49.5lb.
The new coolers seem to cool better than the water cooling system did
when the fans were turned off. When the fans on the radiator were going,
the water cooling system would cool very well, but also make a LOT of
noise.
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