Custom water cooling.

[Genesis4455]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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...

zzz2496

 

[linnemeyerhere]

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

 

[zzz2496]

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...

zzz2496

 

[linnemeyerhere]

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?

 

[zzz2496]

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?

Energy consumption. To cool some 300++ watts you don't need another 300++ watts... If you can have it for less (or even no energy at all, passive cooling), why not?

zzz2496

 

[Lordbob75]

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/overclocking-case-mods/87419-project-cm-haf-932-paint-job-wiring.html

~Lordbob