Making My Own Homemade Watercooling System

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unklerosco wrote:

The beer cooler could work really well, Its basically a tank with piping in it. The prpes freeze the water surrounding them n the reast of the water is pumped arount @ 1c, it doesn't freeze cause of the flow its pumped at...

put me down for two and a packet of peanuts .....i would be nice to see what the results of a rig cooled by a setup like that ...but whats the noise levels of these beer coolers??????....biggest problem is condensation ...you would have to set the mobo up as you would in a vapochill setup and silclone nearly everything up and just for good measure place some kind of gaskit head over the waterblock ...i seen a test setup on the interweb where the guy put a perspex cube over the cpu area and sealed it somehow which keep it away from the other components...if i was going to try something that extreme out id have to run it on a mickeymouse rig before it would ever go near what im running now ....BUT JUST IMAGINE :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :eek: :cool:

gline

unklerosco wrote:

There the coolers alrite... We've a ton of them in work, allot of them come in to be serviced n sent back out but i think beamish r upgrading allot of their gear so we might be scrapping a few of theirs. Was also thinkin of taking the rad of a big upright fridge(like the ones u get in off-licence's) n mounting it outside the house... It has a huge surface area which could prop give some good temps.

The beer cooler could work really well, Its basically a tank with piping in it. The prpes freeze the water surrounding them n the reast of the water is pumped arount @ 1c, it doesn't freeze cause of the flow its pumped at...

My god, if your going to do all that, why dont u just go for phase change, my your own setup, much better preformance, and less hassle when done right, if your going to get a beer cooler for your pc which will do 1c, then phase change at -50 will be 50 times better and half the hassle, probably be the same price if you get a 2nd hand 1. get 2 and cool your graphics card aswell, NOW THATS EXTREME.

BabyEater

The reason why we cant go phase change is because phase change would be very dear to buy i wouldn't go out and buy a beer cooler but if they were being scrapped i would take 1. Also the hassle is where all the fun is , anyone can go out and buy things that will work great but it is more rewarding if something you makes works .

gline

BabyEater wrote:

The reason why we cant go phase change is because phase change would be very dear to buy i wouldn't go out and buy a beer cooler but if they were being scraped i would take 1

Lets be honest even if they upgrade there beer coolers they wouldnt give away the old ones, probably sell them off. A second hand phas change kit is about 350-400 euro, thats not that expensive, save upa while, will last u for YEARS

unklerosco

As babyeater said its all about DIY... Its grand for me cause I can get my hands on a beer cooler, if i couldn't i wouldnt go out n buy one just to cool my PC.. I think id prefere a warm pc n a cold pint ;-)

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BabyEater wrote:

but it is more rewarding if something you makes works .

now your talking