Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Liquid Cooled Thermaltake TaiChi PC Case

I have just about finished setting up my new PC. I got a Thermaltake Tai-Chi case with a liquid cooling kit. So far it is working great - cool.



We had a little problem getting the coolant to fil the radiator and hoses but eventually it did. My suggestion if you buy one of these is that to avoid heat damage to your CPU use an old AT power supply that doesn't need to be connected to a mother board to work and connect the molex connectors to the cooling pump. Then slowly add the coolant until all the air bubbles are flushed out of the system.
I havent seen the chip (CPU) temperature exceed 39 degrees Centigrade. Most of the day today it was lower than the Motherboard temperature. (Without airconditioning running the ambient temperature in the house would be around 25-28 degrees and in my office it is hotter due to the number of PCs running; today 4 + a laptop.)

In side there is a:
ASUS A8N SLI Board
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU Previous review on this site
3GB Corsair DDR RAM
4 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 250Gb S-ATA Drives
Liteon DVD ROM
ASUS DVD/CD Writer
ASUS GeForce7800 GTX 256M PCIe Video Card (I only got one at this stage but I can pair these in SLi if I want.
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor Sound card
Creative Giga Works S750 7.1 Speakers
Enermax EG701AX-VE 600 Watt PSU
I am running 2 19" Viewsonic G90f+ Monitors in Dualview mode
Input a Logitech G7 Laser Wireless mouse and a Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

This machine was sold to me by the great guys at Computer Alliance where I buy all my gear, partly constructed by them and finished by me with some help from my mate Jamie.


Posted by: Jethro | 2:13 AM |