Home-made Liquid Cooling

Nothing low budget here only the reservoir.

LOL, yea, I found that picture on another forum and had to capture it. The guy was actually using it but need the paper towels to catch the drops of fluid.

I just tossed it up here hoping you all got as much of a kick out of it as I did.

Kipper said:

LOL, yea, I found that picture on another forum and had to capture it. The guy was actually using it but need the paper towels to catch the drops of fluid.

I just tossed it up here hoping you all got as much of a kick out of it as I did.

indeed i did lol, my first thought would be to stop using the system untill the leaks were sealed, paper towels do not make for a good pc as the would in effect act like a blanket and therefore trapping heat underneath them and so kind of defeats the object of the liquid cooling somewhat don't you think? lol

Yea, that is definitely worth buying one haha

~Lordbob

Well, the test runs being successful, I put it in my old system. After two days of liquid cooling, a pinhole leak developed, and I'm back to the drawing board on the heatsink. It might be better to buy a heat plate with all the leaks I've addressed on the CPU cooler. I thought a bigger one might work better, and it does, but until I come up with a leak-proof system, I can't use it. Here are some temperatures though:

Final update on this project!!!!

I dipped the whole heatsink in epoxy, and ground out the excess. Now I have a leak free heatsink, working pump, rad, reservoir, etc etc.

Congrats, now to tidy everything up some and I bet it will look as nice as it cools. Way to go

The total cost of the project was just over 95 dollars.

LiquidSnak,
What is your ambient temps on average? 15c is crazy good !

Ambient right now is 78 F. What does an H100 normally run at?