Greetings one, greetings all. Welcome to Kool Frenzy, the Watercooling Experiment, or Bongcoolers - Lots of Fun.

So let's set the mood...

Right...

This cooling system was built with 2 systems in mind. Firstly, it was built to fit on my slot Celeron 333. Secondly, it was built to fit ultimately on Froodogs' Duron 700. This article is about the construction of the
c333 cooler.

The c333 was purchased with an AOpen AX6BC motherboard, for the sum total of $AU150. The celery has a default voltage of 2v. With stock aircooling, this chip would do 417 mhz, albeit rather dodgily. I didn't try bumping the voltage up from the default because a) it was with an intel hs/f and b) I had just blown up a K6-2 350 by raising the voltage too high.

Yes, this baby did 500 fine, with this setup, for ages. Then, I wanted to get it higher, and in my silliness I raised the voltage that bit too high. The default for that chip was 2.2v. When I hit 3.4 volts, the chip went BANG. It was all rather comical. I fried my very first chip! wow... it just makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Or rather, all hot and ozone-smokey inside. I don't have any temps from that setup, because the mobo I had didn't support temperature sensing. Rather silly if you ask me.

Anyway, moving right along, it was out with the old and in with the new! Or rather, in with the second hand. Bought from an eastern-states-er who shall remain nameless, my new board and CPU arrived in the post, and it was straight into my brand spanking new ATX case, hook all the stuff up, including my 21" screen, with which BIOS viewing is quite silly. All good, 333 to 417. 500 posted, but didnt boot. Ok, I knew that with 333s, if they hit 500 then that was generally an indication that you had a nice chip. Nice, I thought, I'm in for a bit of a ride.

Now I've never overclocked a Celeron, old or new, and it pissed me off a little to find out that with this motherboard, I need to tape some of the pins on the CPU. Now I'm used to motherboard mounted jumpers
to adjust voltage, but nevermind, on with the show.

So with a bit of anticipation, I made the trek down to my trusted Fiend-in-Arms-and-Overclocking (maybe not the Arms bit) Froodogs' house. We planned the afternoon out, and decided that a trip to the local Bunnings hardware warehouse was needed.

Upon returning, we had a whole lot of stuff.

We had :

1 x bit of PVC about 2 metres in length
1 x PVC Thingy
4 x metal hose clips
4 x 13 mil poly joiners
1 x hose spray head
1 x tube superglue
1 x bit of metal
2 x PVC endcaps of different sizes
And a bit of hose.

Now this might seem as if we might be building a reticulation system for our backyard, and not a cooling system for a computer. But, onwards and upwards.

Firstly, the waterblock concept should be explained.

But before that, some light comic relief.

Excellent.