Is there an easy water cooled solution available for cpu cooling

[nealh]

On my next pc I am thinking about a water cooled/liquid cooled cpu solution...like Apple G5 computers and others...is there anything easy and reliable that does not cost an arm and a leg

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

perhaps not you're quite after...

I have a Aquarius II water cooling system (which is very cheap) and replaced the 80L/hour pump with a 500L/hour pump housed in a tea kettle. Not quite mac-super-cool , but its cheap and does the job

 

[pelikan]

What is your goal with watercooling- silence, overclocking, modding?

 

[Mingon]

Koolance is very good and quite easy to setup. Ignore watercooling snobs going on about 'must be 1/2" ' as thye have issues with size

 

[pirred908]

Originally posted by: Mingon
Koolance is very good and quite easy to setup. Ignore watercooling snobs going on about 'must be 1/2" ' as thye have issues with size

your ignorant.

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: pirred908

Originally posted by: Mingon
Koolance is very good and quite easy to setup. Ignore watercooling snobs going on about 'must be 1/2" ' as thye have issues with size

your ignorant.

how informative

 

[cirthix]

ok, want cheap watercooling, follow these instructions... i did it and its cheaper than any wc system (well under 100bucks)
step one: go to a junkyard and get a heatercore from an old car OR find an abandoned car and take it (it is legal to take things from an abandoned car if it has been there for two weeks or more to be considered abandoned) cost varies
step two: order a pump, more specifically, the the via aqua 1300 should cost 30 bucks shipped (got mine from xoxide, but there may be cheaper places around)
step three: make a waterblock by taking a copper heatsink, cutting off an outside fin or two, and brazing it all together, you may need to get thicker sheet of copper to braze to the top with the inputs and outputs being copper pipe about one inch in length and brazed on.
step four: get tubing and elbows as needed. make sure you get teh reinforced tubing, its way better. my local ace hardware had it for 123 a foot, it was 3/4 od, 1/2id and NEVER kinked.
step five: get a T fitting and cap while your at ace, shoudl be a dollr each. cost for all things at ace: 5bux for tubing, two for fill/bleed system (T piece with cap), and a variable amount of money for elbows.
step six: while you're at ace, get four nuts, four springs, and some washers, and a piece of metal to go over the top of waterblock. shoud cost about 4 dollars for all things to mount the waterblock with
step seven: fabricate the piece of metal mentioned above such that you can mount the waterblock
step eight: leak test, cost: free and maybe saving you lots of money, then fix any leaks
step nine: mount the waterblock
step ten: break out your favorite tool for makign big holes in cases, then cut out a hole for your radiator and attach it with your choice of a shroud, zip ties, screws, silicone seal, or whatver you feel like. add a 120mm fan or more if you feel like it
step 11: mount the pump somewhere
step 12: put all tubing together again, test system with comp turned OFF
step 13: fix any leaks
step 14: if you really feel 31337, go buy a 170w peliter off ebay, get a coldplate, modify your mounting system, insulate like mad, and be amazed at what you can overclock to (you may need a new psu for the peltier, i recommend replacing your current one with this if it cant take the extra load on 12v rail http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=17-148-008&DEPA=0
step 15: play with fan voltages to see what you can get away with. i can have 2ghz stable with NO fans on in my system (psu is execption), but i use a mobile barton at 1.375v
step 16: go play games and enjoy ;P

 

[cirthix]

o, and about cheap easy to do watecoolign systems, they S UCK. if you look at the spec sheets, they get .3 c/w, which is horrid. if you are not overclocking an enormeous amont, and even if you are, get an sp-97, it is a wonderful air heatsink that gets amazing cooling done. it is easily twice as good at half the price of watercooling systems. on a note of mroe expensive watercoolings systems, your still doing better, and at fraction of the price!!! basically, what i'm saying is...
any watercooling system premade for under $150 can be easily beat by an sp-97 for about $45
any watercooling system premade for over #150 is too expensive for the coolin capacity, adn can easily be beat by a custom watercooling as mentioned in my post above
any phase change system can be beaten by a peltier system (replace pelt as above with a 227w one) at a fraction of the price

now can you please explain why on earth you would not build your own and save a hundered or more dollars?

 

[cirthix]

o, about the apple g5 watercooled, apple uses quite an interesting waterblock. they scratch the cpu surface with grooves and use water directly on the die, which is pretty cool!!!

 

[klah]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7861&enterthread=y

 

[jefbak]

My globalwind silent stream works great and only cost like $70. It keeps my overclocked 3.2c at 50c or less and I an not even in a air conditioned house... It is not so silent however but it is much much better than my zalman air cooler I used before. I also have the zalman resorator on another system. It is expensive but silents and if you throw some icecubes in the resivior you can get temps way down... for awhile anyway.