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kevlong
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PostPosted: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:38:37    Post Subject: Thermaltake tai chi water cooled case modifications Reply with quote View Single Post

There is a recently added short thread on BigBruin.com Content concerning the ThermalTake Tai Chi water cooled case.

I would like to get some advice from those of you who know the watercooling solutions that Thermaltake uses which I understand to be narrow pipes and low flow.
So my question is given that, what would be the practical problems of extending the cooling in the Tai Chi to include the Graphics card, (7800 GTX)?

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PostPosted: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:54:57    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

I'm not really into water cooling, so can't help you much.

I'd be concerend about the special unit Thermaltake has that fits the door of the TaiChi. Perhaps one of the larger units would be better suited.

But then knowing Thermaltake the door unit would probably suffice for some users, but probably not for the hardcore.
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PostPosted: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:10:55    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

Tt does sell the VGA add ons, and I think it should be OK.

I have other water cooling kits, some with massive tubes, and others with quite narrow tubes (like the Innovatek XXS kit). Although the Innovatek was originally just for a CPU and VGA, I asked to representative about adding other things, and they assured me that tubing could handle much more load... (another VGA, northbridge, hard drive(s)) and all I wanted was to add the northbridge.

So, with the skinny tubing a lower flowing pump, it still kept the the CPU, GPU, and chipset well below air cooling.

For direct Tt experience, maybe dadx2mj can chime in, since has one of their kits!
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PostPosted: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:59:45    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post

Hellfire wrote:
I'm not really into water cooling, so can't help you much.

I'd be concerned about the special unit Thermaltake has that fits the door of the TaiChi. Perhaps one of the larger units would be better suited.

But then knowing Thermaltake the door unit would probably suffice for some users, but probably not for the hardcore.


It's a pretty large radiator with two 120mm fans so I think that end of it will be OK. I suppose I was a little worried about pump flow rate to remove the heated fluid from two devices in series? Or as I've read somewhere a better way may be to run them in parallel??

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