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Radiical Ultra Extreme Water Cooling Kit and the Cooler Master Stacker Case Project 4

Radiical Ultra Extreme Water Cooling Kit and the Cooler Master Stacker Case Project

Build Log December 24, 2004

It all comes together.

Putting the system together prior to the first boot up of the computer is often a trying time. The last minute adjustments and attention to details like wiring concealment are waiting eagerly for your arrival. In this case our first problem arrived with the fitting of the soft tubing and inline water probes. The problem was caused by the weight of the probes being suspended away from the radiator. The solution to this was to move their position to a point closer to the radiator and stagger their position in the line due to the lack of space. This was done to avoid displacement of the water block on the CPU by the weight of the tubing and brass in line probes.

Flow Rates

In addition to the earlier pressure testing of the unit a water block was installed and a flow rate test were then carried out.The results of the flow rate measurement indicated that a flow rate of 4.2litres per minute could be expected from the MCP600 pump in this configuration. We were very pleased with this result as this flow rate was "in the slot" for the WHX water block being used.

The completed bare unit is shown below with the water block and inline temperature probes in place prior to installation in the case.

And installed in the case

The next job on the" list to do" before fire up of the computer is the completion of the front faceplate with the installation of a fan controller to control the four radiator fans. The fan controller is to be fitted under the last completed bay insert in the picture here and would be just above the radiator.

We have gone for a very simple black and silver finish with complementary floppy and cd rom unit.

The hard drive is concealed under the cd rom so that we can fit our new hard drive water cooler unit, later, with the least amount of disruption to the water cooling system.

Next will be the testing phase which will go on for several weeks. The testing is to be conducted firstly with a completely passive cooling system. The fans will then be introduced into the cooling measurement to compare the gains made with one, two three and so on fans in operation. The fact that this is a test bed for future development dictates that some sort of permanent data logging is required. We have elected to trial run the program Web Temp available from; http://www.wassergekuehlt.de/
for our data logging.

The Results