Will the Heat build up badly

[woodenman80]

Im aiming to build a water cooled system.

But im going to try and use no radiator.
My pc room is ideal it is directly below what i would count as a fairly big resovoir about 4.5ft directly above my pc in the loft. I am aiming to use the low pressure water tank which is a 150 gallons and run this as my resovior at present im just trying to cool a 750 duron oC TO 933 133@7.0 and a DDR Geforce. And mainly remove the noise of the system but still keepin it cool. The tank is regularly circulated e.g when showers and taps are run but will it build up heat to unacceptable levels. also due to the 4.5ft height differance what pump would people recommend. If worst came to worst i could add a small radiator in the loft as there is 30sqft spare lol (but dont want to ideally). Also will i have trouble with tap water corroding my copper blocks ???

Any thought appreciated

Woodenman

[RedDeathDrinker]

150 Gallons? Heat Build up? Doing some quick Jedi Mathematics from my Physics days, no chance of heating the tank up at all. But all that water 4.5 feet above the PC has a good head of pressure on it. Better to have your resevoir below, because if there is a component failure, instead of 150 gallons of water in your PC, due to the lower pressure, only get a small leak....

I'd seriously advise against using the loft tank, cause like I said, 150 gallons of water, a loose connector or a split pipe, and SPLOOSH!

You could use a smaller tank below the PC (bucket/beer brewing container etc).

I remember seeing (can't remember where) an article where this guy kept an old freezer beside hid PC, and had a container inside containing a strong anti-freeze mix, which he pumped round his watercooling system.

Keep us informed!

[cjtune]

Can't get rid of heat? Lock it up! 150+ gallons can't be wrong.

Looks like there's a third type of WC that's about to be in the mainstream: the heat capacitor, in addition to the bong and radiator types.

BTW, a large body of water will automatically have large surface areas as well so it'll also get rid of the heat to the ambient via convection, evaporation -but of course, your goal is to make the large body of water THE ambient...