My Freezone FZ1000

That sounds like a great little project Vinman. I really like the whole idea of custom systems. But as your pointing out there is an awful lot to take into consideration when doing this. Everything needs to be tight and fit well as your asking for trouble. Mainly the reason i stayed with sealed unit in the H50.

Fingers crossed you can locate them soon enough Vinny , really looking forward to seeing how you have done this my friend.

McT

found what I needed at the local hardware store and Im done with the install its running great high and dry cool and quiet just the way I like it, temps are way to low 12c working them up slowly need to be around 19c I like the idea of the 500ml clear tank more water better cooling, I will post some picks later today

I will add the install did not go with out a couple of snags, I decided to use the upper bay for the Reservoir and made the lines long enough so I could slide the tank out for easy filling as needed, had to remove one of my 5 DVD drives I removed the pioneer 215D which I never liked, and also my benq 1655 which I replaced with a new drive my nephew gave me a Samsung SH S202 writemaster 20X with light scribe. I could not get my system to boot up after install, went in to bios checked my boot order went in trying different things finally got it to boot but kept getting a hardware error, the system would not see my two IDE drives after pulling my hair out for over an hour I removed the Samsung and Bam boot/hardware error gone issue solved,the drive was bad right out of the box, so I put my trusty BenQ back in its place. the other issue which pissed me off even more is the mounting holes for the rails on the tank there are only two. They are pre-drilled and are the upper two holes, if you picture the side of your DVD drive for instance you have two sets of holes upper and lower well my rails mount on the lower two the holes on the tank are the upper two so cant use the rails it just sits in there loose I slid the two rails in along side anyways two keep the tank in place and from moving side to side

Hey vinny can't wait to see some pics. I have faith in ya and I know you will get everything sorted out.

hope this comes out right as far as the order of the pic's if not I don't have a clue how to fix it LOL
the first pic so you know was me bleeding off the air on the tank I did not have my camera when I had it torn down sorry! but all is well that ends well you have to excuse the spaghetti as I was just concerned with getting it back up and running I will go back at a later date and clean that up I installed some filter material on the door to keep out the dust while letting in air which works great the system is running great actually better then before and holding temps very well I'm a happy camper

Looks good Vinny drop the temps as low as they will go it is better for the chips over the long run, mine at idle are a 6C.

smduff wrote:Looks good Vinny drop the temps as low as they will go it is better for the chips over the long run, mine at idle are a 6C.

I often wondered if running the components cooler than normal was good for them or not. I know that deisel and other internal combustion engines have normal operating temperatures and running then hotter or cooler is not a good thing in most cases.

Looks like a sweet setup vinny. Thanks for sharing it with us!

What about over clocking that puppy vinny? That chip should do 3.8 with out too much mucking about with it. And get yourself some good monitoring software. The AI Suite that comes with the ASUS boards is pretty poor quality and usually off by a fair bit.

Try Core Temp or my favorite Everest Utilitise.

I found core temp but could not find Everest Utilities Home addition which I believe is also freeware, all the other versions of Everest cost$

Vinny everests does cost but it is something worth the money. The amount of info available with the program is staggering!

When I can afford it I will purchase it here are some new temps I recorded.

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img822/5936/sshot2o.jpg
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img138/4793/sshot1hy.jpg

whoops first one is hard to see so posted a second link lol!

I found the first one very easy on the eyes! LOL

The temps look great also...

I figured you would!
and yes I am very pleased with the performance so far and the way that mod came out on the cooler.

Great working's Vinman. With a super cooling setup like that and nice OC is screaming out dude.

Some really awesome pictures dude.

McT

I just picked up an Apogee GT water block on e-bay for $30.95 new
still in orig packaging comes with back plate and hardware and 3 sets of barbs local shipping so should have it Monday or Tuesday looks like a real nice block much better then that paper weight that came with the freezone lol!

http://www.swiftnets.com/products/ApogeeGT.asp#

Looks like a really well machined solid block Vinny. Should make a hell of a difference. As long as the pump can handle the pressure of it as well.

McT

My Apogee block came in today and its awesome! I will be putting it in over the next couple of days, I have to remove the MB again to attach it and will take some better pic's of the install from start to finish,
And while I am at it do some cable management to try and cleanup that mess. lol!

Can't wait to see the finnished product vinny!

Well got it done and its running great its already dropped several
degrees from were the old block temps were my skills at cable management
suck but what the hey I need to get some sleeves for the ones off of
the freezone unit this was before I bleed off all the air the apogee
comes real close to the radiator unlike the stock block which had the
barbs on the side of the block versus these which run left to right
across the block and just barely cleared it! I also replaced the plastic
barbs with brass ones, but I'm a happy camper now to learn how to OC
this bad boy! lol!

Looks good Vinny

This was a very easy mod and other then having to remove the mother board from the tray to secure the new water block,it was fast and went very smoothly, bleeding off the air from the system went especially well as the tank is in the upper bay and air rises to the top and out the fill hole so all I had to do was continue to add more fluid till it was all purged! Also The coolant I used is called hy-per-lube super coolant comes in 16 fluid Oz bottle at your local auto parts www.hyperlube.com
works as good or better then whats available for water cooling units at half the price!