{"id":106,"date":"2011-12-06T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:08:36","slug":"customer-computer-watercooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/personal\/customer-computer-watercooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Computer Watercooling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_00091-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" width=\"378\" height=\"282\" title=\"8064x1440 Resolution\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been running Eyefinity for a while over three screens at 1080 lines of resolution limited by a Samsung 1080 monitor either side of my Dell 2711 27inch monitor.&nbsp; However I was able to upgrade the two side montiors to match the middle meaning the whole lot can now run at native reoslution giving a total of 8064&#215;1440 pixels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However pushing 11.6 million pixels around was too much for my Radeon HD 5860 video card, so I also upgraded this to two Radeon HD6970 cards in CrossFire (linked together so both cards share the workload).&nbsp; While the two new cards were able to drive all 3 displays I found they got hot &#8211; very hot.&nbsp; At idle running Windows 7 they sat at about 60c, however when running any kind of full screen graphics they burned at 84c!&nbsp; Too hot to expect a long working life.&nbsp; After reviewing aftermarket fan cooling solutions I decided this was impetus enough to bite the bullet and install watercooling, especially as the ambient temperature in the room itself can get well above 30c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolPC-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" width=\"367\" height=\"274\" title=\"WatercooledPC\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolPC-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolPC-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolPC-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Installed is a EK FC6970 V2 full cover water block on each video card, a koolance CPU-370 water block on the CPU connected to a koolance 360 radiator and koolance RP-1200 combo pump and reservoir.&nbsp; Details of the equipment and installation are in another post, however the result is a whopping drop of well over 30 degrees when running hot.&nbsp; Windows idel now sits about 44c and maxes out at about 50c when being pushed hard with full screen graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolFront-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" width=\"143\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolFront-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolFront-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aliciapaterson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolInside-767x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolInside-767x1024-1.jpg 767w, https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/WatercoolInside-767x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been running Eyefinity for a while over three screens at 1080 lines of resolution limited by a Samsung 1080 monitor either side of my Dell 2711 27inch monitor.&nbsp; However I was able to upgrade the two side montiors to match the middle meaning the whole lot can now run at native reoslution giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekgirl.io\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}