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First post, by Baoran

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My first try with water cooling was in 2005 with the thermaltake tai-chi case that came with everything you needed for water cooling. I don't really have pictures of my system, but you can easily find them online.
https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/thermaltake-tai-chi-case/2/

Reply 1 of 11, by wiretap

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I have some pictures of mine. I'll post them after work or if I have time later on. My earliest watercooled system is 2006 though.. would that be ok?

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Reply 2 of 11, by kaputnik

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Haven't got any pics of the complete system, but for some reason, I've kept my home made socket 7 water block from the late 90s all these years. Dug it up and snapped a pic for a ghetto modding thread in another forum a while ago, might as well post it here too 😀

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Basically it consists of a piece of copper sheet in the bottom, some coiled up 6mm soft annealed copper pipe, and half a roll of regular electronics solder. My crafting skills were perhaps not all that developed, but keep in mind I was an impatient teenager then, and just wanted to get on with the experiment 😁

Used it together with an extremely noisy centrifugal pump and the oil cooler from a scrapped motor cycle. Worked surprisingly well. Can't remember any specific numbers anymore, but ran an AMD K6-2 (or perhaps it was a K6-3) at quite remarkable speeds with it.

Reply 4 of 11, by Mr. horse

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Baoran wrote:

Looks like the account of whoever made this thread got deleted.

I think your right. Isn't this all he posted? Maybe the site staff can step in and tell us why? Leaving a thread without an OP is kind of messed up.

That aside im working on pentium 4 setup thats water cooled. Ill post photos when its done.

No sir I don't like it!

Reply 5 of 11, by x0zm_

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Even if OP is gone (and I don't know what era he wanted), here's some pics for anyone else who comes across this -

http://www.angelfire.com/games3/computermods/main.html -- 99-01'ish case mods & watercooling.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021209181012/htt … WATER%20COOLING -- lots of early watercooling reference points.

These will be some great starting points.

Reply 7 of 11, by SirNickity

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Ha... that would have been back in the day with Danger Den and co. I had a water-cooled P4 Northwood, and a water-cooled dual-CPU P3 running BeOS (since Win9x didn't have any idea what to do with multiple CPUs back then 😁). Good times.

Reply 8 of 11, by slivercr

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x0zm_ wrote:
Even if OP is gone (and I don't know what era he wanted), here's some pics for anyone else who comes across this - […]
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Even if OP is gone (and I don't know what era he wanted), here's some pics for anyone else who comes across this -

http://www.angelfire.com/games3/computermods/main.html -- 99-01'ish case mods & watercooling.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021209181012/htt … WATER%20COOLING -- lots of early watercooling reference points.

These will be some great starting points.

Uff, that overclockers link really took me back. I would regularly check that, firingsquad, and virtualhideout. I think about 2 years ago I was checking the cool case gallery of VH through the archive. Good memories.

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Reply 11 of 11, by oeuvre

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found this thread, might be of interest https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/wat … llery.17305236/

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