Windows 7: Custom water cooling.

Genesis4455 · 16 Nov 2010

What do I need other than the reservoir? are there any guides on water cooling, can i use one reservoir to cool cpu and gpu? Im still learning about this and im wanting to seriously get into water cooling and making my own reservoir...Ive seen some tutorials on how to make some and what i need how to test for potential leakage, but other than that what else do I need ?

smarteyeball · 16 Nov 2010

A pump, tubes, waterblocks, radiator, fans, coolant, barbs etc - basically everything else that goes a long with a reservoir

Yes, you can include your card into the loop if you wish.

These links should give you a better idea of what's involved:

WaterCooling Guide For Beginner - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

Water Cooling Guide For Beginners

Liquid Cooling - XtremeSystems Forums

linnemeyerhere · 16 Nov 2010

Genesis4455,
Sky is really the limit. The most extreme I've seen uses a triple super radiator with six fans in push/pull configuration. The choice to separately cool the cpu from the gpu's is your's but most will link all the gpu's to cool after the liquid flows from the cpu.

whs · 16 Nov 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by linnemeyerhere

Genesis4455,
Sky is really the limit. The most extreme I've seen uses a triple super radiator with six fans in push/pull configuration. The choice to separately cool the cpu from the gpu's is your's but most will link all the gpu's to cool after the liquid flows from the cpu.

I have seen even more extreme - with liquid nitrogen. It cools at minus 320F.

linnemeyerhere · 16 Nov 2010

Yeah I love the mad scientist thing. With the clouds of super cold compressed helium allowing monster OC'g.AMD takes Phenom II 955 BE to 7.0GHz for 4th of July blast

Genesis4455 · 17 Nov 2010

Man liquid nitrogen? Lol that would cost so much money to buy XD but thanks for the help Im going to mod my HAF 932 case and add my own cooling stuff to make it look nice just a medium size project im going to do, for the painting of the case do i need to sand the inside down to paint it black? or can i just prime it or what? Im not sure if the case uses special metal

zzz2496 · 17 Nov 2010

You can use a large reservoir/tank and not use radiator at all. I've had a setup back then that consist of 2 pumps (one for CPU, the other for GPU) and a large clay water tank, around 250 liters of water. 2 tubes goes to each pump, and the exit tube off the device goes straight to the water. With that much water, I don't need radiator because it needs LOTS of heat to increase the water temp 1 deg C. At my friend's setup I even tested with submerged water pump, which goes VERY well and very silent also...

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linnemeyerhere · 17 Nov 2010

Hey if you have access to a swimming pool.....just saying !

zzz2496 · 17 Nov 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by linnemeyerhere

Hey if you have access to a swimming pool.....just saying !

I used to connect my water cooling system to my house's water reservoir, thus the 250 liters...

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linnemeyerhere · 17 Nov 2010

I wonder at what point a dedicated refrigerant like we use on our refrigerator/freeze could work....I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this.....maybe cost?

Windows 7: Custom water cooling.

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