Foxracer15 said:
Could you possible help me with the picking of parts for the custom watercooling kit?
you can use whatever you want. but here are some guidelines to help. I couldn't suggest anything that I haven't used myself because I don't know the pros and cons for each one.
I'll use my current system as an example for you...
1. PUMP - Mini-Jet 606 ($10). very small, lightweight, and quiet pump. its flow rate is 160GPH and it only uses 6 watts. I have mine mounted sideways about 2 inches from the CPU waterblock, the 1/2' output pumps water directly into the waterblock. I had to modify it to make it an inline pump because they come submersible only, but that's easy to do.
I had also used the Via Aqua 1300 (360GPH), it worked good but it was too big, loud, heavy, and used too much power. my temps are actually better with the minijet simply because if the placement of the pump
2. RADIATOR - generic 120mm steel radiator with aluminum fins ($15) 1/2" barbs.
I had also used 2 other kinds ("snake" pipe kind 120mm, and all copper 80mm) they all yielded the same general temps.
3. WATERBLOCK - DangerDen RBX socket A waterblock ($40) I made an acrylic bracket to adapt it to a socket-939 CPU. DangerDen makes very nice waterblocks (some are even in the $20 range, but they aren't as pretty

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I had also used 2 blocks that I made myself out of scrap aluminum. they worked almost as good as my dangerden block (about a 2-3c difference, nothing major). bottom line, don't waste a ton of money on an expensive water block, they all work good, even simple ones.
4. RESERVOIR - DangerDen 5.25" bay reservoir ($30) - a reservoir is not necessary but it is benificial, and it's just plain cool to see the water moving from the front of your case

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I also used a standard 4" plastic sealed electrical junction box as a reservoir as well. it works the same and fits underneath the floppy drive bays. i had the
5. TUBING - 1/2" ID (3/4" OD) UV blue vinyl tubing ($2 per foot) - very nice tubing. easy to cut, easy to bend, doesn't kink, and doesn't put harmful pressure on the components.
6. FAN - generic 120mm LED blue fan - a fan is not necessary (depending on where the radiator is mounted) but is benificial.