Computer Water Cooling

[TheWesDude]

i have looked and so far all i can find commercially feasible for the end user are diffusal water cooling solutions using radiators of some kind without actual cooling.

i have found actual refridgerated water cooling setups, but they are all home-made.

can anyone point me in the direction of a commercially viable water cooling system for a home pc for both cpu and gpu that uses cooling of some kind and not only diffusal using just a radiator.

i have been searching for a while and cant find what i want.

 

[Mord_Sith]

What are you doing, board stacking?

Sorry but I'm just curious what you would need that level of cooling for.

 

[TheWesDude]

because currently my case is fan cooled but it runs so hot even with 6 120mm fans running that it heats up my room.

i want to move to a cooling solution that wont heat up my room as we are moving into summer

 

[Barrett]

How 'bout turning off the computer sometimes?

 

[Touquet]

Hi
you can try
Thermaltake
or
Zalman
or
Coolmaster
and
Coolmaster2
or
Review

 

[SuAside]

there's a shitload of fanless water cooling solutions. you should be able to find them yourself...

and you should go on local hardware forums, where they'll be able to tell you what's the best to be had locally.

Thermaltake, Zalman, Coolermaster are all fine, but usually custom made cooling or mix & match cooling has often much greater bang for buck.

 

[TheWesDude]

Hi
you can try
Thermaltake
or
Zalman
or
Coolmaster
and
Coolmaster2
or
Review

like i said, i dont want radiator cooling solutions. they only provide dissipation cooling which is passive and doesnt do much to regulate the temprature. im looking for ACTIVE water cooling solutions. peltier devices take too much power for the home user.


none of those links provide what i am looking for. i have already seen them.

there's a shitload of fanless water cooling solutions. you should be able to find them yourself...

and you should go on local hardware forums, where they'll be able to tell you what's the best to be had locally.

Thermaltake, Zalman, Coolermaster are all fine, but usually custom made cooling or mix & match cooling has often much greater bang for buck.

i have already looked and not found an active water cooling system. those are NOT fine, they are PASSIVE water cooling using radiators.

 

[monsharen]

Buy an actual refrigerator and build your computer into it. It sounds like the cheapest alternative, seriously. That or setting up a pipeline to the nearest lake.

Anyway,

http://www.sharkacomputers.com/zare1v2siwac.html

The Reserator 1 V2 is a fanless water cooling system that unites the functions of a reservoir, radiator, and water pump into one system for easy operation. It is anodized and comes with a custom coolant to prevent corrosion.

Anything of interest?

 

[TheWesDude]

the key word in that description is radiator. that is passive diffusal cooling.

 

[monsharen]

so what is classified as "active" then?

 

[SuAside]

i have already looked and not found an active water cooling system. those are NOT fine, they are PASSIVE water cooling using radiators.

all those brands also have active water cooling systems.
but they're not the best of their class, usually.

the best kits, are usually mix & match, depending on what is available locally.
HW Labs + Eheim pumps + Innovatek + etc etc etc.

so what is classified as "active" then?

active is anything with a fan, peltier, or vapo.

 

[monsharen]

hmm but he wants something that does not heat up his room, right? As far as I know the energy has to go somewhere and the only way to "remove" it from his room would be to lead it out. Having a fan would just spread it out like his normal fans already do. So putting the radiator (with a fan) outside the room then?

 

[SuAside]

pretty much, yeah.

even a fridge produces heat.

i suspect he'll eventually settle for something like a VapoChill or something.

 

[TheWesDude]

no, active does not mean it has a fan.

active cooling is something that actively provides some cooling for the water. having a fan run over the radiator is again, passive diffusal cooling.

the problems with peltier devices used to provide cooling for a home computer is they can use a lot of power and without something actively regulating how much "cooling" they provide they can actually lower the temp below dew point.

 

[Wooz]

What kind of processor do you have?

 

[Davy Crockett]

Just order dry-ice every on a daily base and chuck in some blocks inside the computer ever now and then.

 

[SuAside]

no, active does not mean it has a fan.

active cooling means any form of assisted cooling, other than passive dissipation.

this includes fans, but is not exclusive to fans alone.

active cooling is something that actively provides some cooling for the water. having a fan run over the radiator is again, passive diffusal cooling.

nope.

you are (actively) blowing air onto a passive medium, thus actively assisting cooling.

it's possible that these semantics are invalid in an engineering context, but in a computer cooling context, it's the only commonly accepted meaning. just google it if you don't believe me.

the problems with peltier devices used to provide cooling for a home computer is they can use a lot of power and without something actively regulating how much "cooling" they provide they can actually lower the temp below dew point.

to real problem is that:
1) uses a fuckton of useless energy
2) the peltier itself needs to be cooled more than the processor. lulz.