Rearanged cooling setup

[Diggrr]

I'd gotten my watercooling rig finished. Not bad results at 33C (surfing) 35C load. But looking outside at all that snow made it difficult not to want the cpu colder.
I was going to run the heat exchange loop outside, but didn't want the hasle of condensation protection.
I also wanted to move to geothermal cooling in the spring.

I replumbed the entire system instead. I gutted the watercooling gear out of my server cube and relocated it.
The pump and reservior are now mounted on the wall next to my desk, and the heater core/fan/shroud assembly are hanging from a floor joist in the basement. I drilled holes in the floor to rout the tubing and wiring. It's about 8C colder down there right now, but stays about the same temp year round. (old stone cellar)
I hacked up a pc power cord, spliced it to the pump, and added a plugin to the back of the cube, so it's removable. I also added a plugin on the back for the heater core fan. These plugs are mounted in a lexan piece I cut to cover the heater core's hole in the back of the case. I mounted the origional harddrive carriers on it and inset a modded fan to blow on them. With the lexan, the harddrives, fan, and plugins apear to float in space...really cool.

Right now my temp is at 25C, case is at 26C, with 23C ambient. I think right now I'm done modifying for the winter. I'm looking forward to trenching a new copper tubing-geothermal system in the spring.
I'm claiming success, cause I no longer see 30C, it's always below without adding refrigeration, or outside air and their condensation problems.

[TruckChase!]

Nice :)

You're makin me jealous man, everything in my new setup is going to hell. My pump sucks, (not literally) my computer room is WAY too hot, and I can't get any paint to stick to my damned resivoir/radiator holder. (9.99 toolbox from home depot)

You know somebody is hardcore when they make modifications to their house to cool their computer. :beer:

[Diggrr]

Thanks.
As for painting the plastic, look in the auto repair section of local parts store. Most will have a primer made for plastic (bumpers, facias etc..) You can use regular spray paint on top.
A local hardware might carry a vinyl dye in a spray can too. I've seen an all plastic computer case painted with this stuff. Bright red...ouch, but it'll come in different colors.

When the computer's done, mod the house to fit it.:beer:

[Pepsi]

Hey how about a few pics?

[Diggrr]

Here's the radiator. I had to use duct tape on it when I took it out of the case. The rivets that held it in also held it together, and I'm out of rivets. The fan came off of my bong, so I just sawed off the pvc that it was installed into.

[Diggrr]

Here's a pic of the pump/res. I made the reservior out of a 4" pvc union and two pieces of plexiglass. It's rtv'd into place with the tiny bolts tapped in to help. There's loads of extra tubing, cause I move my computer out alot, and the slack helps. The computer is wired to the DSS, VCR, TV, rooftop antenna, so I have an abnormal bunch of wiring. (tv tuner/capture card, dual head video card and a security camera)

I'll post pics of the back of the case later...I have to pull the computer out, and I'm downloading now.

[windyridge]

that is sweet

[Diggrr]

And here's the last pic. I chopped off the corners to round the fan shroud. It's press fit into the hole in the plexiglass. It shows the remounted harddrive cages in the origional positions, and the power adaptations for an external pump and radiator fan.
I used 6mm plexi to hold the weight, and all the holes and edges have an added radius to stop cracks as well as being ground in by the dremmel.