If geeks love it, we're on it
If geeks love it, we're on it
Even though it is assumed that the concrete floor is conducting the heat from the radiator, the garage ambient temperature seems to have an influence on the water temperature. For most of the year the garage air temperature should be 14-15 degrees C. On rare occasions the garage air temperature will rise to 28 degrees C and above. Therefore on average, it is predicted the CPU temperature will be below 30 degrees C.
In conclusion, it appears both project objectives were achieved. The computer is very quiet with only the power supply fans turning at low RPM, and, on average, the CPU temperature will likely be 30 degrees C or less.
we are talkinig about a radiator in a chilled waterOriginally posted by DexterHolland911
What would be really cool (literally lol) Is if you had a cooled swimming pool and put the radiator in that. Like a waterchiller.
Sorry, didn't see that.good idea, especially if the water in the "swimming pool" is chilled
In my original post I meant the original setup shown would be pretty useless.
You wouldnt if you had SCSI!Originally posted by Geeky1
and hdd water blocks for good measure...
If it was oppainter, he'd throw 6x220watt pelts on the radiator and another 2 more on the CPU.
I was thinking along this line but was thinking that in a cool climate you could just encase it in concrete like the floor of the foundation for your house. I guarantee that in a location of at least 40 Deg N or 44 Deg S you would be in good shape as the ground stays fairly cool and the concrete in contact with the ground under the house would stay very cool. Something like this would work very well for a "Cooling Network".Originally posted by Geeky1
Interesting idea, however, if it were me, I'd have buried it under ground, used a bigger pump, and thrown a 226w pelt on the cpu, an 80w pelt on the gfx card, an 80w pelt on the chipst, and hdd water blocks for good measure...
Personally I like the swimming pool idea better. :P
10 feet under the ground is so 'compacted' and moist that it should not be a problem.Originally posted by DexterHolland911
The grounds is not a very efficient conductor of heat.
I'd consider something like this, but the potential maintenance on the tank would be too much for me to justify it... so I was figuring on cutting some performance corners and just used a closed loop system and have the actual length of piping and depth of the coil be the secret ingredient to compensate for the lack of surface area/heat transfer...Originally posted by Omega65
Actually some guy did do the underground cooling thing. The Link died with the old ICF though.
He buried a tank underground and pumped water between it and his computer. It worked quite well....
Then again, you don't want it moving TOO fast, as it will pull the water through the piping in the ground TOO fast and not allow for enough time for heat transfer/absorption... you'd actually have to fugure out the time it takes a particle to move through the system, how long the heat exchange needs to take while the particle is beneath ground in the piping, then offset that time by the amount of cooling lost spend going back above ground (into warmer air) until it returns to the waterblock...Originally posted by Geeky1
Use a high-quality industrial pump... that is, if you can handle 100 gallons of water per minute or more....
just too little surface area. If the water's moving too fast, the pipes are obviously too small
I agree! Not too mention you will have too much head loss too. So it would only figure that the longer the lines the larger diameter tubing you will need. Once you go bigger than 3/4" I think it would be better to taper up and down in steps so as to eliminate backup in one spot. A good possibility would be to use !/2" lines to connect to the wall connection where you would have 3/4" tubing in the walls to the coils which would be 1" or 1 1/4". Just think if you built a house that way and had the coil just make one loop undr the perimiter of the foundation for your house??? Less elbows and more length to disapate heat and pick up extra cooling from the ground. MMMMM And to think I will be building a house in a few more years too!Originally posted by Geeky1
no such thing as too fast
Just make it bigger, larger more complicated heatsink, bigger tubing. Go all out.
Damn, I was going to patent that!!Originally posted by Geeky1
all out means one of those diesel-powered well pump things that does like 1000gpm w/6" intake and discharge tubes... you'll have to glue the water block to the cpu and the cpu to the mb and then bolt the case to the floor to keep it from moving
