watercooling schematic

hunter00 · Nov 22, 2001

im gonna be watercooling with an inline pump, rad, and waterblocks for my cpu, gpu, and northbridge. I was wondering what the best order to do this in was, or maybe i should put some in parallel or something. also, could i use an inline pump in this setup, or would the three waterblocks generate too much heat? im gonna be double-peltiering the cpu too. thanks.

YMAN · Nov 22, 2001

How about something like this?

3 waterblocks 1 of witch will have multiple peltiers
2 Radiators 1 of witch a cube or both can be a cube
1 Inline pump, Must be powerfull!

You may want the cooling cube reversed with the standard
radiator so the biger radiator is after the first watterblock
and the regular radiator is after the other 2.
This is assuming that the other 2 waterblocks are for Chipsets -
northbridge, vga, etc.

hunter00 · Nov 22, 2001

hmmm 2 radiators you say . . . im actually grabbing my radiators out of cars, so neither will be a cube

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yeha i said the two other blcoks are for gpu and northbridge.

my pump is an ehiem 1250 (317 gph i think) thats enough right?

YMAN · Nov 22, 2001

hunter00 said:
hmmm 2 radiators you say . . . im actually grabbing my radiators out of cars, so neither will be a cube.
yeha i said the two other blcoks are for gpu and northbridge.

my pump is an ehiem 1250 (317 gph i think) thats enough right?

Id say if you have the stuff give it a try!
However I am a little worried about the radiators, I hope
they are not too small.
What type of peltiers are you stacking?

hunter00 · Nov 22, 2001

two small? they're monsters dude, like 9x6, all those fancy radiators you buy are really just modded car heater cores anyway.

im not really sure what peltiers im stacking, i haven't ordered them yet

if the cooling isn't enough, i could always just use a reservoir though right?

YMAN · Nov 22, 2001

hunter00 said:
two small? they're monsters dude, like 9x6, all those fancy radiators you buy are really just modded car heater cores anyway.

im not really sure what peltiers im stacking, i haven't ordered them yet

if the cooling isn't enough, i could always just use a reservoir though right?

Well 9.6 you will proboably not run into probloms, but even
the biggest radiator does not mean its the best.

As for all radiators being heater cores, you are very wrong
there are many specialty computer radiators out there, the
danger den line, and the black ice are among the most popular

This is the danger den super cube, along with the first supercube,
they have become one of the most popular computer radiators
known.

As for a reservoir it will not help much at all, unless you have
one of those huge 2 gallon all metal ones, or a 5 gallon bucket.

hunter00 · Nov 22, 2001

really? are you sure about reservoir not helping? i always though that the extra water would reduce temps significantly . . .

YMAN · Nov 22, 2001

hunter00 said:
really? are you sure about reservoir not helping? i always though that the extra water would reduce temps significantly . . .

It will help some, but not to the great extent, making it in most
systems not a big help.

drunkmonkey · Nov 23, 2001

I'm thinkin bout watercooling also, what is a peltier, is it important? Any good sites 2 go 2???

YMAN · Nov 23, 2001

A peltier is a thermal-electric cooling device.

They are something like a heat pump, pumping heat
away from one side and placing it to another.

The down side is they require alot of power and produce
emense amounts of heat that only a good wattercooling setup
can eficiently remove.

When selecting a peltier or TEC, you want to get one that is
twice the wattage that your cpu uses, so if your cpu uses 60W
you want ATLEAST a 120W tec.

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I would reccomend you looking around and learning more about
these devices because, they can do alot of damage, and
requre some skill on how they work, to setup one correctly.
They are not just strap it on your heatsink and plug it in your
powersupply. They require pressure, power, cooling etc.

asmodean · Nov 23, 2001

I'd put the GPU & NorthBridge blocks in their own loop, parallel. The CPU generates too much heat for the water to cool the GPU & NorthBridge well, I think.

ButcherUK · Nov 23, 2001

A car heater core will utterly stomp on a DD cube, check BillA's article.

YMAN · Nov 23, 2001

asmodean said:
I'd put the GPU & NorthBridge blocks in their own loop, parallel. The CPU generates too much heat for the water to cool the GPU & NorthBridge well, I think.

By spliting they system into 2 lines, and then back into 1
you greatly decrease the efficiency.

YMAN · Nov 23, 2001

ButcherUK said:
A car heater core will utterly stomp on a DD cube, check BillA's article.

Not the super cube, there is no way you can even think of
comparing them, a supercube would have far greater
cooling results in a computer than a heater core.

- It has been proven over and over.

I am not sure about BillA's Article, I have not been able to
find it, but he was proboably refering to the first make of the
cooling cube. The supercube is a very different radiator.

ButcherUK · Nov 23, 2001

YMAN said:
Not the super cube, there is no way you can even think of
comparing them, a supercube would have far greater
cooling results in a computer than a heater core.

- It has been proven over and over.

I am not sure about BillA's Article, I have not been able to
find it, but he was proboably refering to the first make of the
cooling cube. The supercube is a very different radiator.

BillA's article is here. As for the super cube, unless they made the tubing quite a lot bigger I doubt there's much improvement. The problem with the cube style rads is they have high pressure drop and don't conduct the heat to the fins well (tube/fin boundary). A heater core has a much better tube/fin boundary as the fins are soldered to the tubes (as opposed to press fit). This gives much better thermal conduction to the exposed surfaces giving better results. Also they're low pressure drop. Even with all this, for the same price as a cube you could have two/b] heater cores, and they would most definitely stomp on any single rad.

Also where is this proof? I'm yet to see any...

YMAN · Nov 23, 2001

ButcherUK said:
BillA's article is here. As for the super cube, unless they made the tubing quite a lot bigger I doubt there's much improvement. The problem with the cube style rads is they have high pressure drop and don't conduct the heat to the fins well (tube/fin boundary). A heater core doesn't have a tube/fin boundary as the fins are formed out of the tubes. This gives much better thermal conduction to the exposed surfaces giving better results. Also they're low pressure drop. Even with all this, for the same price as a cube you could have two/b] heater cores, and they would most definitely stomp on any single rad.

Also where is this proof? I'm yet to see any...

I see your point, the new supercube is alot better than the
first, it is also made out of copper.

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