This is a bit silly but.....

[Ravsitar]

I've been asked to spec out one of these for a client.

http://www.marleyct.com/aquatower.htm

This would be a great rad for a pc. The model i'm specing will remove 1,125,000 BTU per hour (about 329,689 Watts) at 300 GPM. Of course you have to run 4" piping and the pump is bigger than most cases. But hey this would be pretty extreem. :)

[UnLoadeD]

Looks like waaayyyyy overkill to me. I'm not gonna read the tech documents but I'd be willing to bet that the spec you listed for heat removal hinges on there being a very large delta between coolant and air temps (something you won't achieve cooling a cpu). If you think about the actual capabilities of a heater core, dumping large amounts of heat from the coolant into the driving compartment, you can see we are actually only using a small fraction of what they will do. It all comes down to a balancing act: block efficency, contact of cpu/block, water flow, air flow, water temps, air temps, pump heat...just to name a few of the factors. I'm sure that rad would cool and probably without a fan or a big pump, but it seems like trying to kill a gnat with a sledge hammer. 8)

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[UberBlue]

If you kill a gnat with a sledge hammer, it's still dead. Right? Even with a low delta T, I bet that thing would have no problems with a puny (relativly) heat load from a cpu not to mention how much water that thing holds.

[Yuriman]

A gnat will be realy hard to hit with a sledge hammer. Now if you had a hydrogen bomb....

[vonkaar]

There is no such thing as overkill for an overclocker.

[rogerdugans]

I didn't read the tech docs either but I have to agree with vonkaar on this one :D

What I DON"T think we have is an overclocker with the spare cash to be able to kill this particular gnat with that specific hydrogen bomb. ;)

[Fast420A]

My Father in law works with this kind of equipment and is always asking about my computer and OCing it, He told me that when he gets some extra time, we'll figure out something like the professional cooling towers only smaller.

[Surreal]

wow!

I see real potential with that beast! Imagine a dual folding farms stacked 12 high! 24 hot overclocked AMD CPUs!

[Ravsitar]

The delta T for the current project is only 6 deg F min and probably not much more that. We're using one of these to precool the air for 3 diesel generators so the 6 deg f is the delta t for the air not the water throught the tower. The water really wont get all that hot.

Now if we were talking about the cooling towers used to cool the engine cooling water we'd be looking at a much bigger delta t. 30 to 50 deg f in some cases. Ofcourse those towers are two and three times the size of the one I linked to.


Surreal has the idea I've got. A college could use one of these to water cool all the computers in a building. Some of the labs at ISU (Iowa State University) were pretty noisy from the 60 - 100 computers in there. Or as mentioned building a HUGE beowulf cluster to do something and cooling the whole thing with one of these.