silentD11, on 13 August 2012 - 08:35 PM, said:
Thermal take is bad and they use alu... even more bad. Even with the anti corrosive glycol it only slows down doesn't stop, so if you're using a low end or higher waterblock, it's copper, and thus you will have problems. I've done the alu + copper deal with iwaki d30's and other high grade pumps (not thermaltake junk) it's fun but it will degrade.
Also what block is that? I see the enzotech socket plate on it, but the block looks... well... old... unless you have a top end block all the radiators and fans in the world aren't going to fix the heat transfer issue on the block.
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Oh no Thermaltake is bad...?? Well, it's been plugging away "without" loss of performance, and if the internals are made of aluminum (in the pump), I guess that could cause a problem, but 6 months of operation with no leaks, no loss of performance, and no gunk in my lines "whatsoever", I guess I got lucky huh.. The Radiator itself is all copper for the flow, only the fins are aluminum, the bearings in the pump are ceramic, and I don't expect the pump to last more than a year, if it dies tommorow it will have already exceeded my expectations of 6 months, so nothing is out of spec, or running at reduced capacity..
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As far as the "waterblock", it "IS" an enzotech, new as of 6 months ago.. It's not "well...old", it had a plate on the top of it to center it to the bracket, and it was just for looks, it had some sort of adhesive (looked like hot glue gun stuff) holding it down to the block, and in my opinion would just insulate any heat the top of the block "might" dissipate, so I pulled it off, and chucked in the garbage... I had a different block on there that had no internal flow plates or (baffle) to direct, and slow down the flow, and since my system has very "little" restriction, I used the enzotech block the enzotech block dropped 2 degrees over the other, but the other was a OCZ $20.00 cheapy( I didn't pay for) that a freind just handed me after he pulled an intel bracket out of the box, I gifted that to a friend, I have group of frends that swap, trade, gift, and sell components to each other...
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Also the "waterblock", and the "CPU" are both lapped, and that seemed to drop a degree or so celcius, but not a ton..
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I didn't throw down $120.00 on a water pump for obvious reasons..
#1. I wanted to see how this setup would run, call it a test bed for things like performance, corrosion, and pump wear...
#2. I "expect" to change out pumps at least 6 month to a year, $46.00 for a pump didn't leave me with "any" illusions that it was going to last a lifetime.
#3. The title of the "POST" said it all to begin with...
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I guess not having "ALL" top end stuff isn't hurting performance at all, seeing as how I haven't been able to get my CPU past 41C in Prime95, and it stays in the low to mid 30s "gaming" at 4.29GHZ to 4.31GHZ on a Phenom II x6 1100T 3.4GHZ stock... It perfomed even better on a Phenom II x4 960 thuban (locked 6 core)...
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I could have spent $400.00 to $500.00 like my friends, but I wanted to see just how cheaply I could build one with a pair of tin snips, some old fittings, basically things just laying around that weren't being useful.. So, for $89.00 and a 12 total man hours over a few days, I think I beat the $400.00 mark by quite a bit...
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Thermatake may be "bad", but for what I paid, I have zero complaints, and I didn't hand over a ton of cash to
http://www.frozencpu.com/
or any of the other places I looked for pricing.... BTW, I spent less on doing the whole thing that I planned on paying for the quick disconnects, I had it easy since I had mostly what I needed laying around...
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"thus", I have no problems...
Edited by Odins Fist, 14 August 2012 - 09:56 AM.
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