Hey BladeRunner thankz for visiting us - it's a honor for our forums to see man like you here
As you can see we got little a "Discussion" of your kickass WB. Of course I forget to add about your underground system and cupper tubing but I will have time later

We got only one question about your WB - was the modifying the 1U copper radiator best available solution? With your equipment it will be more easy to create to your own WB base with even more effective arrangement of pins.

again glad to see you here
and hope to see your new and fascinating waterblocks!

BladeRunnerUK Hey! Your system rocks! Are you planning to manufacture it?
P.S. Change your yellow round cables to thermaltake round cables that are transparent (of course cables in them aren't transparent, but it looks better:))

А вообще, напрашивается такую системку проточной водой снабжать... А бак держать на случай отруба водопровода только...

Timestalker

You speak excellent english which is helpfull for me.

I used the 1U sink as it was the easiest option because I'm not using a CNC, just a hand mill. Maybe the next one I make I will do something similar to this design that was created by "Zymrgy" on a good CNC with a 1mm mill bit.

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All the blocks in my system are now custom made one offs, but mostly it's been about full 3D card cooling. You have probably seen some of these but here's a history of my VGA projects for those that haven't and don't speak english. Pictures work in any language :-

History of my water-cooled VGA projects so far:-

They are left to right going down,

(1.) Original Asus GF3 cooler.

(2.) Mk2 Asus GF3 cooler.

(3.) Gainward Ti4600 gf4 cooler, (front & back)

(4.) Radeon 9700 Pro (front & back)

(5.) FX 5800 Ultra (front & Back)

(6.) Matrox Parhelia 128mb

(7.) Radeon 9800 Pro (front & Back)

(all images are links to larger versions)


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Current project underway for an FX 5900 Ultra, perhaps technically the most challenging so far due to a one block frontside design, and the want of one 8mm festo input & output for the complete block set.

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BladeRunnerUK
Hi! Thanks for such imageful reply Yepp my english is not so bad
I know about your projects cuz I started to watch for them from your asus gf3 mk2 WB.
I really like your 5900U WB - it very impressive and cuz the construction is very difficult it really state of art. I'm personally looking for my FX5800 WB, cuz it's hot like hell
I'm personally don't have watercooling because I skipped it and jumped from aircooling to phase change cooling. But it's very difficult to install evap onto the VGA card (it's very difficult to creat retention mechanism and stop condensation going thru). But now I'm looking for nice WB for FX5800. I don't like German Aqua Computer FX5800 WB. Why? Just take a look and you will understand why.

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Toooo many inlet/outlets and plexi, I hate plexi!
btw - If I mistake something correct me please, but Gainward made it CoolFX Ver 1.0 WB on your design?! (CoolFX Ver 2.0 is also ugly like Aqua WB is, but they made it because it's cheaper than Ver 1.0 - cuz is used less copper)

All u need new now is a CNC and all problems will be solved!
Other bad side of 1U copper cooler is what it pins are inserted into copper base so it is not monolithic construction and that affects on low WB performance

(sorry for using slang but I really had got used to it )

The original demo unit made for Gainwards cool CoolFx was just the one shown in the previous posts pics. I made this as a solution, but it could not be easily mass produced. I then made another to a Gainward employees design that was reviewed on Toms hardware (against my wishes), and the Aqua Computer version looks similar.

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Gainward are now working with inovotek to produce a block set for Cool FX, I have no further part in what they make.

Phase change is difficult enough to get right with regard to condensation when doing the CPU. It would be many times harder to do a VGA card (gpu & ram).

The 1U cooler I used on the Splitter-X, (an Akasa), is a one piece copper casting, the pins are all part of the base and not inserted in holes. I did mill "pits" between the pins to increase surface area and turbulence.

BladeRunnerUK
At last i've realized where i've seen similar perfect quality of hand-made WBs. Shiny polished copper is ur signature:) And construction is always a masterpiece. We've mentioned almost every ur new work on or site (the last one - http://modlabs.net/?id=65 , use babelfish.altavista.com for translation if u want).
Too bad Gainward stopped to work with u and bit-tech.net, they will lost wow-factor with innowatek's WBs - they are just pretty stock and boring:( Though it will be better than Titan or Evercool they used before.

Great job, man! I'm impressed as always.

BladeRunnerUK
We just saw a news on our site - http://www.overclokers.ru - it says about final version of gainward coolfx.
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From my side of view it's aluminium not copper WB. Any comments?

Btw All your WBs for VGA cards (and for other components) are very effective and ideal in their form. Did you used only hand mill for creating them?

Thanks!

BladeRunnerUK
Hey! I couldn't expect to see you here. It's nice of you to come . Could you post some details on the design of backside of the Gainward's CoolFX? Will be there a solid waterblock or just a passive heatsink? Backside RAM needs cooling, doesn't it?

I feel bad about making you all speak in English on a Russian forum

I'm not part of the Cool Fx project now so I have no further information, I wasn't even sent any pics of that, but got it via a new stock e-mail notification from a UK hardware supplier. To be a proper solution it would need to have water-cooled backside ram but that Could be a 128mb non ultra card as this has ram on the front only. I thought the plan was to have a copper base with anodised aluminium top, but I have no more info myself that that image. It would look better anodised red I think.

There is more about Cool FX in this topic HERE

To make my blocks all the recent ones used the mill and a lot of hand finishing filing polishing. The earlier ones were made with a pillar drill or just hand tools as detailed on my site http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk

BladeRunnerUK
I see. Looks like The Inquirer got it for testing:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10917
There is no water-cooling on the backside - just a thin plate . Memory O/C results are not exceptionally good - about 1 GHz DDR.

BladeRunnerUK

No problems, bro... I think that at least 90% of visitors understand you pretty good:)

All visitors of overclocker.ru learn English at school

The other 10% are able to express their thoughts in fluent English .

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>А вообще, напрашивается такую системку проточной водой снабжать...
Почти так оно и есть. У него бак для воды, ёмкостью на 100 литров, на 2.5 метра в землю укопан. На этой глубине у него проходит водоносный слой, потому и результаты такие нехилые.
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For it to work efficiently the tank will need to be fully immersed in the ground water.
My current 100-litre propane tank 8-foot underground only has the bottom foot or so immersed and it does slowly heat up. I don't run my PC 24/7 so it's not a major issue. But it needs to be appreciated we are only talking maybe 3°c to 4°c rise in a 12 hour period of full load PC use, today for instance my PC has been on for almost 10 hours and the temp on start up was 12.8°C and has risen 2.5°C since this morning.
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BladeRunnerUK
Good decision!
Recently I give an advice a person to do so. This was in indecision.
Earlier whole Your experience and results will help him will be determined.
More thank you.

BladeRunnerUK Right on man! Have not seen your stuff before. I bet you have got a "Monster Garage" somewhere, huh? Just keep it up esse.

А картинки не показываются Есть ссылка на сайт?

But pictures do not show there is reference to the site?

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BladeRunnerUK It is very glad to see you here! Awesome job is done by you! Still my jaw hangs in area of knees. after viewing your WBs!
I has fallen in love with 9700Pro WB!

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