How many of you use WC?

[GZed]

Are there any R-134 compressor type WC kits?

 

[Greenman]

Don't know what you mean by a compressor type water cooling kit. Perhaps a chilled water system?
If you mean phase change cooling, there are at least two on the market now and and a third to be launched in the very near future.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have never heard of someone doing what you are talking about. Having the thermal expansion valve alone would be hard enough to do inside the computer, much less have the equipment for the rest of the cycle. There is no way to control the pressure necessary for R-134 to be effective on the scale required for computers. That said, you might be able to get it done, but it would be so expensive, it just isn't practical. Standard water cooling works because you don't have raise and lower the pressure for the cooling cycle like you do with R-134. So water cooling doesn't require a compressor or thermal expansion valve.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Chocobo the unit doesn't go IN the computer, it sits under the computer. They call it phase-change cooling. These don't need water though, they cool the CPU directly. Cooling water with the freon would seem stupid.

http://www.ep-uk.co.uk/acatalog/Prometeia_Mach_II.html
http://www.jab-tech.com/product.php?productid=2712

And as Greenman says, OCZ is fixing to release their own version soon. The OCZ model will use R134. Here are a couple pics, including what looks like the compressor: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4272