My water cooling is not the average water cooling.
It consists of a homemade cpu block, 10 ft of clear hose, a 5 gallon bucket, and a 50ft garden hose.
The clear hose is used for transporting water from the 5 gallon bucket to the cpu block and back.
The 50ft garden hose is my radiator. It lies flat on a cold concrete floor, cooling the water as it passes through.
The bucket serves as a res, and a place to put the fishpond pump.
My setup right now goes: fishpond pump > clear hose > cpu block > clear hose > garden hose> 5 gallon bucket > pump, and etc
With that out of the way, my question is:
Would it be better to have the water coming out of the garden hose (coolest water i believe) and having that go straight into the cpublock, instead of having it go through the res and then into the cpu block?
Reason i ask is that the res may cool off the water even a little bit more, because of its contact with the concrete and the eversoslowly evaporation that takes place off the top of it. Then again, the pump adds some heat, and with my current setup, that water doesnt cool off much from the pump before it hits the cpu block. With my proposed setup, the slightly heated water from the cpu block and the pump goes through the hose before the cpu block again, so it should be the coldest?
btw, i am very impressed with my temps for doing this all home made. my 6600 at 3ghz at load is around 42C, right where it ideled with my zalman 7700cu. The waterblock idels at 29C.
It consists of a homemade cpu block, 10 ft of clear hose, a 5 gallon bucket, and a 50ft garden hose.
The clear hose is used for transporting water from the 5 gallon bucket to the cpu block and back.
The 50ft garden hose is my radiator. It lies flat on a cold concrete floor, cooling the water as it passes through.
The bucket serves as a res, and a place to put the fishpond pump.
My setup right now goes: fishpond pump > clear hose > cpu block > clear hose > garden hose> 5 gallon bucket > pump, and etc
With that out of the way, my question is:
Would it be better to have the water coming out of the garden hose (coolest water i believe) and having that go straight into the cpublock, instead of having it go through the res and then into the cpu block?
Reason i ask is that the res may cool off the water even a little bit more, because of its contact with the concrete and the eversoslowly evaporation that takes place off the top of it. Then again, the pump adds some heat, and with my current setup, that water doesnt cool off much from the pump before it hits the cpu block. With my proposed setup, the slightly heated water from the cpu block and the pump goes through the hose before the cpu block again, so it should be the coldest?
btw, i am very impressed with my temps for doing this all home made. my 6600 at 3ghz at load is around 42C, right where it ideled with my zalman 7700cu. The waterblock idels at 29C.
