With the heat levels produced by most modern processors, watercooling is gaining more and more attention in the mainstream cooling gear market. Of course, the appeal of more efficient cooling that can be had through watercooling, as opposed to traditional heatsink and fan cooling solutions, has drawn overclockers to it since its inception. The reasons [...]
Articles By: Rod Chedister
Case Cleaning 101
We also have another guide about cleaning up your case here. There is nothing wrong with leaving spills, dirt, and stains on your computer case. After all isn’t that what the case is for, to protect the electronic components inside from spills and dirt? This is true, but there are still parts of the case [...]
Ewido anti-malware
If you haven’t tried it or don’t have it, go get it. It is a kickass prog and worth every penny x 10. It found junk on my oldest system that all the other AV/anti-spy progs have been missing for months and it is uber fast — you can scan different sections of your drive in [...]
Watercooling Basics/General Info/Explanation
Watercooling Basics/General Info/Explanation of some of the things in my previous post… H2O basics – Pre-built, H2O kits, external setups, do-it-yourself, etc. Pre-built systems are great in that they are amazingly easy even when compared to regular H2O kits. If you can find a company that has a case you really like with [...]
Don't Rule out Evercool WC-202
Dracos said… Danger Den is great stuff, but don’t rule out kits like the Evercool Wc-202.. I had a DD kit in mine, but I was screwing around with it and poked a hole in my black ice rad… no damage to comp, but rad is shot.. Anyway, I ripped apart the Wc-202 I [...]
Danger Den DD12V-D4 Water Cooling Pump
As we have stated in past reviews of their products, Danger Den is one of the most respected names in the water cooling arena. While our other reviews have primarily focused on Danger Den’s water blocks, this will be the first time we have taken a look at one of Danger Den’s water pumps. Danger [...]
Arctic Silver ArctiClean
Arctic Silver, the manufacturer of Arctic Silver 5, Ceramique and Arctic Alumina thermal compounds as well as Arctic Silver and Arctic Alumina thermal adhesives, recently sent their latest product, ArctiClean, for testing. Unlike the other products mentioned above, ArctiClean is not a thermal compound or adhesive but 2 separate liquids for preparing surfaces for thermal [...]
RBX/TDX Nozzles
I just realized that I could update that to help some out with the RBX/TDX nozzles a bit – I need to go back and run some tests with different nozzles with different pumps and breakdown the nozzle performance based on the flow and head pressure of the pump. A weaker pump would do better [...]
AkwaFlo RAM Cooler
As of late, there seems to be a distinct split in the water cooling field. One half consists of those trying to hit the absolute maximum overclock while the other half is trying to achieve an ultra-silent cooling system with excellent temperatures. I was recently given the opportunity to review a cooling component that could [...]
Danger Den RBX Waterblock
Danger Den is one of the most respected names in water cooling and I normally jump on any new product from them as soon as it comes out for testing. While the Danger Den RBX has been on the market for some time now, I somehow never managed to test it until recently. I had [...]
Making shrouds
I used to make all of my shroud by hand but now they are CNC machined. I have a partner in Canada – we started designing and producing shrouds for various models of heatercores around the last of november. We now have 4 different models – one for the 2-302 (aka 77 bonneville with air [...]
So Much Needs to be Dremeled
John-Erik Christensen said… Because so much needs to be dremeled anymore … Rod, you know if you had carte blanche on a PC that had to do work and play games really well there would be very little dremel action going into it, if any at all. Aftermarket stuff is quite good. And, of course, [...]
Spray Coolant Directly on CPU Die?
John-Erik Christensen said… If you’d like, I’m pretty sure I could find out what coolant Cray uses to spray directly onto the CPU dies … sure, that might be interesting. I suspect it is either a variant of 3M Fluorinert or something very close thereto. 3M has one with a pour point of -101c which has [...]
New Rig
John-Erik Christensen said… That looks to me like a standard 19″ 24U half rack, if I’m not incorrect, and you have two 3U chassis up near the top and what looks like the guts of a 7U dual Xeon or Alpha or Itanium server Chassis near the middle. Like a Slot 2 or Slot B [...]
My new H2O Heat Exchanger
A trip to advance auto, some nice fittings from McMaster-Carr, a little work with the torch, a quickly developed partnership with a watercooling enthusiast in Canada that ended up with us working through several shroud prototypes and finally tweaking one to the extreme, dual san ace 120mm fans a little paint work and I ended up with [...]
Cascade Phase Change System
I think I’ll just cheat and build a cascade phase change system – insulate and freeze everything on the board then I won’t have to worry about whether or not I have everything cooled down nicely. -111C should be cool enough shouldn’t it??
I don't worry about chipset cooling
The only time I really worry about chipset cooling is if I have done voltage mods on the board and I am running everything at much higher than default voltage. In that case, I add additional cooling to just about everything (mosfets, v.reg chip, etc.) my main system is a good example – it has [...]
2 Types of B'ville Heatercores
to prevent any confusion, there are 2 types of ’77 b’ville heatercores and they are different sizes: 1. 2-302 (’77 bonneville w/ac) - sometimes associated with some crazy modder named Weapon that posted a how-to mod thread on it in several forums more than a year ago – the most recently updated version is still a sticky in the [...]
Shroud Increases Performance
A shroud increases performance by reducing or removing the dead spot that occurs directly underneath the center hub of a fan. If you mount a 120mm fan directly to a heatercore, even if that core were the exact dimensions of the fan, there would be a dead air spot with no flow under the hub. [...]
Full Tower Definition
JEC has about the same definition for “full tower” case as me. It seems that many of the newer cases that are called full tower cases are what used to be termed mid-plus cases. Old school definition of full tower – something with about six 5.25″ bays, at least a couple external 3.5″ bays [...]
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