I guess you better tell Enermax that they don't know what they are doing then. The 550 watt unit I water-cooled had mains voltage heatsinks, with a mosfet attached to it having an earthed metal backplate. The only thing preventing a short out between the two was a mica membrane. This is how it was by design as stock. I have no real idea why though as it works fine now water-cooled and has for over a year with an earthed water-block in a 100% fanless Hi performance PC
I don't think I've ever come across a more fascistly, opinionated forum, (or rather members posting in it), on the web before. Half of you replying with silly negative Darwinism comments etc haven't even bothered to read the article, and even if you have, most fail to have a real understanding of electricity, water-cooling PC's, and the "WHY" behind it all
Until there is a high quality PC psu availble that is designed from the outset to run cool, fanless, and supply enough power for a top end system, then myself and others after PC silence will have to find other solutions. Water-cooling a PSU may not appeal to you which is fine......... don't do it then!, but also don't insult those that have put effort into making it work for themselves, allowing for the possiblity of failures.
Digital Explosion, (like my site), is a water-cooling modding site for the comunity, that shows what can be done. There are plenty of sites out there on the net that show you all sorts of other things that can be done. Nothing I've read says you are being forced to copy it!.
Quite funny as I get comments at the opposite ends of the poles from "experts" all the time. Recently a Bang & Olsfen engineer sounded as if he was convinced the world would end, so passionate was his belief it wouldn't work if I actually did it! The fact is I'd long done it and it works fine and has been for over a year!. The wire extensions are less than three inches long and over twice the thickness of the original pins.
PC specs are on my site, and the PSU has no issue running it at the moment. I have made some minor changes to the PSU to aid cooling details here:
(I'd have made that a link if I knew what the code was?)
What I've done may have reduced the overall efficiency a little but as PC psu's are inefficient things by design anyway at around 75%, then I doubt it matters much considering I never intend running it at or near full load.
I never argue with anything that works =), the main reason I took a more complex route is the Enermax PSU I water-cooled had live sinks, and also I wanted an entirely fanless PC / system.
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I guess you better tell Enermax that they don't know what they are doing then. The 550 watt unit I water-cooled had mains voltage heatsinks, with a mosfet attached to it having an earthed metal backplate. The only thing preventing a short out between the two was a mica membrane. This is how it was by design as stock. I have no real idea why though as it works fine now water-cooled and has for over a year with an earthed water-block in a 100% fanless Hi performance PC
I don't think I've ever come across a more fascistly, opinionated forum, (or rather members posting in it), on the web before. Half of you replying with silly negative Darwinism comments etc haven't even bothered to read the article, and even if you have, most fail to have a real understanding of electricity, water-cooling PC's, and the "WHY" behind it all
Until there is a high quality PC psu availble that is designed from the outset to run cool, fanless, and supply enough power for a top end system, then myself and others after PC silence will have to find other solutions. Water-cooling a PSU may not appeal to you which is fine......... don't do it then!, but also don't insult those that have put effort into making it work for themselves, allowing for the possiblity of failures.
Digital Explosion, (like my site), is a water-cooling modding site for the comunity, that shows what can be done. There are plenty of sites out there on the net that show you all sorts of other things that can be done. Nothing I've read says you are being forced to copy it!.
Quite funny as I get comments at the opposite ends of the poles from "experts" all the time. Recently a Bang & Olsfen engineer sounded as if he was convinced the world would end, so passionate was his belief it wouldn't work if I actually did it! The fact is I'd long done it and it works fine and has been for over a year!. The wire extensions are less than three inches long and over twice the thickness of the original pins.
PC specs are on my site, and the PSU has no issue running it at the moment. I have made some minor changes to the PSU to aid cooling details here:
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?s(I'd have made that a link if I knew what the code was?)
What I've done may have reduced the overall efficiency a little but as PC psu's are inefficient things by design anyway at around 75%, then I doubt it matters much considering I never intend running it at or near full load.
I never argue with anything that works =), the main reason I took a more complex route is the Enermax PSU I water-cooled had live sinks, and also I wanted an entirely fanless PC / system.