Home made Watercooling

[Haden]

I'm going to make water cooling system next week, already got everything planed, but I'm not sure it will perform good enough.
Here's what I'm going to get:
water pump - "Nova Pond" (4.7 feet, ~400l/h)
radiator - twissted cooper tube (repeating S form, about 1m length in total)
aliuminium heat exchanger (maybe I'll find cooper, but probably not)
reservoir - ~2l
The thing is I don't want cooler on my "radiator" (it will be hiden by front panel, below fdd, so even if get there one it won't have much air to blow).

Do you think it's going to work?

I'm taking more powerfull pump so I thought it will be enough (there is also 2.5 feet, 250l/h).
I'm not trying to make hardcore cooling system, just something more silent than all these damn coolers.
38 idle, 48 load (or even a bit more) would satisfy me.
(1500+ XP@1500Mhz, big tower case)

 

[Haden]

Anyone?

Will more powerfull pump and water reservoir be enough to effectively cool system if I won't install cooler on the radiator?

 

[BurnprooF]

Bigger radiator would help more maybe two radiators would help too, and if you want silence, put the cooler spinning with very low voltage (3,3 or 5V), it's matter of circulating the air.

 

[BurnprooF]

you need to put there some coolers, something needs to cool the water, if you do'nt have air circulation, your water temperature stands to high level and you need to think your system over again

 

[Haden]

I'm going to keep one case cooler, so there will be some circulation in the case, but not direct airflow from radiator thought.
I think I'll change position of radiator so that I can install slow cooler.

I was assured that it will take Athlon XP hours to increase ~3l water temperature by 10C, that's why I thought I can skip cooler.

 

[BurnprooF]

actually, it's not that simple 3 litre water warming up quite quickly, if your computer stays in static place, you can try put the radiator out from the room, put that's not the solution, right? Or you can change your cooling system water after every few hour's, but then there is a certine chance, that you let air in your cooling system and you need to get it out again. So, think it over..... I think, that you need mobile solution? well, i have tried with a car coolingwater (tosole or what it name was) and i get's my system temperature from 36 to 32, so you can try thisone, mybe help if you need to hold only one cooler......

 

[Haden]

I've reviewed my setup and I'm going to install radiator above PSU (there is a bit more space, I'll be able to make it bigger) with 80mm cooler blowing air out.
I'm going to keep one cooler sucking air in to avoid dust inside case.

Thanks for input.