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So, when my house is finished in about 6 months, there will be major watercooling going on! Got a couple of threads on it around here..
Basically, the WC'd pc is on the first floor, with the cooling loop in the crawlspace under the ground floor. So there is about 4m from the lowest point (the pump) to the highest point (the pc)
Now, some reading suggest that in a closed loop system, this height difference doesn't matter. The force needed to "push" the water up, will also "pull" it down.
But where is the line between open and closed loop? I'm thinking of a res up by the pc, so that mass of water should also "push" on the whole loop negating the height difference? Right? And a res is probably needed, there will be about 45 liters of coolant in that loop, so thermal expansion could be an issue if running closed loop..
Basically, the WC'd pc is on the first floor, with the cooling loop in the crawlspace under the ground floor. So there is about 4m from the lowest point (the pump) to the highest point (the pc)
Now, some reading suggest that in a closed loop system, this height difference doesn't matter. The force needed to "push" the water up, will also "pull" it down.
But where is the line between open and closed loop? I'm thinking of a res up by the pc, so that mass of water should also "push" on the whole loop negating the height difference? Right? And a res is probably needed, there will be about 45 liters of coolant in that loop, so thermal expansion could be an issue if running closed loop..