need hardware opinons

[cdhgold]

I have a full tower that can double as a space heater. it is running 2 of the original AMD procs along with a large power supply and 3 U160 seagate barracuda hdds along with a full complement of expansion cards and a 250 IDE hdd plus 2 optical drives. All in a Antec 1030b case. I'm considering switching to a water-cooled solution and have not dealt with that before. Has anyone done water cooling in this case? If so what system or should i just invest in a new case that already has it in place? Or can anyone suggest a hardware forum where i could post this question.

CHris

[Void Main]

Is this the one?



That's funny because that's what I had the voidmain server running in for a while. The power supply just went out on my main desktop so I moved all the guts into that case last night. Mine has the glass side door, does yours? What an awesome case and I got it for such a great price from Tiger Direct a year or so ago. I had the Void server running on this tiny little motherboard inside that box. You could barely see it in the sea of space in that case. :) Found a pic:



Regarding the water cooling, the last water cooled machine I worked on was an IBM 3090 mainframe back when I was a FORTRAN programmer writing weather applications. I don't have any PC water cooling experience and sorry for taking this off-topic. The first thing that comes to my mind is Tom's Hardware. I've never read them but I see they do have forums there and they used to have some really geeked out hardware articles. You might try the forums there. I am interested in what you come up with though!

[cdhgold]

yep that is the case .. mine does not have the window. you are right i love this case that is one reason why i would rather add water cooling to it than get new case. will update this thread with any updates i get.

[JoeDude]

I used a Posiedon water cooler once, It was a little difficult to set up, but once I got it going, the case temp stayed really low. Unfortunately, it didn't survive the trip from Korea. So when I set that system up here in England, it kept overheating (thank god for motherboards with overheat protection, saved a lot of money!). It took me a while to work it out, as strange as that may sound. Watercooling is very straight forwars. A pump, a heatsink or two a radiator and some tubing. Very little to go wrong. But it failed and it was only a year old. I went back to conventional fans and now my wifes computer sounds like a hurricane chamber....