Question about water cooling.

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I'm considering water cooling as the solution for my new processor. (AYHJA)
1. How do you drain the system? I'm concerned about turning the inside of my machine into a makeshift aquarium. (ouch)
2. What is the liquid of choice? Water with some kind of additive?
3. I'm using a FOP-38 right now. What kind of cooling advantage will I see over this?
4. How much space inside (My cramped) case will this require?
5. Any suggestions on where to pick up a complete setup? And cost?

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.

[dozier768]

well here is a pic of my homade billet alluminum water block it takes up less room than your standard HSF and whn i need to drain it i jus pop the line off the resivior and blow "lol" just make sure your psu is unplugged just incase u get some splash

[dozier768]

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[dozier768]

aswell i just use distilled water and some glycol antifreeze seems to work quite well some folks use an additive called water wetter and i have heard great things about it. it can befound at you local auto parts store it ia a cooling system additive

[Murphy]

The Grue (Jun 04, 2001 03:55 p.m.):
I'm considering water cooling as the solution for my new processor. (AYHJA)
1. How do you drain the system? I'm concerned about turning the inside of my machine into a makeshift aquarium. (ouch)
2. What is the liquid of choice? Water with some kind of additive?
3. I'm using a FOP-38 right now. What kind of cooling advantage will I see over this?
4. How much space inside (My cramped) case will this require?
5. Any suggestions on where to pick up a complete setup? And cost?

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.

Hi Grue,

At first I like to point out that you need to post questions about cooling related thing in the 'cooling' forum. Much more members out there with the knowledge and willingness to help you out, but some of them come here too.
1. Two ways of tubing: a in-line system, no reservoirs, and a system with a reservoir. I use in-line, somewhere in the line you have a T-piece with a bleed-and-fill tube attached. Because of the closed loop, water won't be lounched outside or something. Have a look at the homepage, beginners guides, watercooling. Much articles with nice pics and explanation there!
2. Use water, it conducts heat pretty well, but far more important, it can carry A LOT of heat (heatcapacity). Add something to prevent corrosion or algue growth in your system. I use pre-mixed car coolant from the shop, I picked up 5L for 7$ (or 16 dutch guilders, that's in my place). Glycol based with some more adds.
3. With high wattage CPU's or peltiers, you will have quite a improvement.

Sorry, it's past midnight over here, need to catch some sleep. There are some complete setups, but be prepared to pay for them! It's more expensive than aircooling.

Good luck getting watercooled!

[Rob Cork]

Either use distilled water or boil the water first, before you fill the system. When I first filled mine up, back at Christmas, I boiled the water and left it to cool in order to kill of anything living in it - no problems with algae etc, until I topped it up a couple of weeks ago and forgot to boil the water. Within a week the tubing was green, my fill tube had 3" of grey crap in the top and temps had climbed a few degrees. I've since cleaned it out and refilled it with a 9:1 (approx) mix of pre-boiled water and antifreeze. No idea whether this is the best mixture from a heat transfer perspective, it was entirely abitrary.

Try not to make my mistake - my watercooling doesn't seem to be as effective as most (~0.2 C/W), probably because my radiator is at the top of my case, where the hot air is - and sitting on top of the psy, which as we all know will get a little warm. Try and place the radiator at the bottom of the case, and possibly duct air through it and out the case.

Here's an article that ought to help - just wish I'd read it before putting mine together :-)

http://www.procooling.com/articles/html/project__microstealth.shtml

PS attached is a pic (poor quality I'm afraid) of my setup, just for interest.