Need a water cooling solution for a raid card

jibbajabba

Yea sounds silly, but I have several raid cards and those Adaptec 5 series gets about 100 degrees which is apparently fine according to Adaptec but my sound cards doesn't appreciate the crispy winter tan ..

I am currently planning in building my first water cooling system and why not a raid card ey

Anyway, the card has two holes above and below the heatsink.

The holes are 4.5cm / 45mm / 1.773inch apart.

Can anyone / someone suggest a water cooling block which should fit on that ? I was thinking about a North Bridge cooling block but it appears the standard holes are a bit too far apart.

Any help is appreciated.

Here a few pictures from both sides

JDMurray

You will need to send a few emails with this problem to the top water cooling manufacturers. My guess is that there is no off-the-shelf solution, but they'll all be able to make you an (expensive) custom solution.

I would suggest using an enclosure that can be super-cooled using internal fans. Or a portable air conditioning unit attached directly to the case might be cheaper than a custom watercooler.

royal

Agreed 100% with JD. Look into Vapochill.

RussS

Me - I would go the way JDMurray suggested.

If you are bound and determined to have water cooling .... cool the sound card and not the RAID cards.



just my 2c worth

jibbajabba

Found a Southbridge cooler which fits just fine

Temperature under load : 40 degrees compared to 102 before

dynamik

Wow, that's pretty cool. Any pics of the final setup?

tiersten

Very neat hack but wouldn't it have been easier to use a PCI slot fan?

JDMurray

Very ingenious. I hope it works 100%