I've been running my wc system for several months now on plain old tap water, i know i could do with some additives, but most of the anti corrosion stuff decreases the SHC of the water and so lessens its cooling properties. Some1 sugested to me that profesional bikers use something that actually boosts the waters SHC by 30 % or so, anybody heard of this?
I use a rather large cooling tower rather than a radioator (works far better) thus have the problam that any things i do add to the water will soon evaporate away. Anybody else use this kinda setup and have any sugestions?
The tower holds approximatly a litre of water in the bottom when full, and other than that i have no other resovoir other than what is in the pipes etc, i have to top it up every day if i leave the system on 24/7, im going to make this automated soon. I cool the PSU, CPU, GPU and NB, soo the hdd too.
The tower is made from a piece of 4" diameter soil pipe about 1.3 metres long (i think), and a "t" join at the bottom. The bottom is sealed off and i have a small barb in the bottom which feeds to the pump. The outlet from the system into the top of the tower simply washes the water down the insides of the pipe and with a 80cm fan blowing into the t join at the bottom the water is cooled suficiently as to never go above ambient (unless very low on water).
The blocks on my system are all ali with the exception of a small copper one on the NB. My cpu (a XP2400+) is running at 2310 (210fsbx11) atm with vcore 1.65, in the bios the system temp is reported as 43C when idle. I am thinking of building/buying a better (coppeR) CPU block but for now am happy with this temp. Im more interested in the total silence of my system than an extra 50 or so OC.
My pump is of course up the loft with the tower out of ears reach, It is a 12volt Trailking caravan pump! all my hoise is 8mm ID. I am possibly looking to uprate my hose diamter and pump.
Anyways, any ideas on the coolant i should use?
P.S. some pics on my (not yet made) website.
North Bridge heatsink removed (A7N8X)
Cleaned nForce2 NB
the system on floor for foto
excuse the mess!!
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