PC water cooling ? can it work for us ?

I am not sure if any1 has attempted to this ? i have old equipment from my pc that was to cool my cpu and gpu as i overclocked. i was wondering if any1 tried this before.

The only problem i can see its build up of nutes in the rad since its not straight water.

Share your ideas !

is be cheaper than buying a chiller.

Don't know if anyone has but I have though long and hard on it. Also long runs of tubing cool warm solution. The trick to cooling passively is keeping it out of the reservoir where the sheer volume of warm solution wins. A motorcycle accessory oil cooler could cool well with a fan blowing through it. Long tubing runs to and from the oil cooler.

Would most likely clog up the radiator and possbily damage the pump. Instead of using it for nute solution cooling, why not adapt it to cool your light instead. Wouldn't be that difficult to botch together a reliable water cooled light if you've the patience and tools. I've more radiators and pumps and blocks than i can shake a stick at, keep meaning to do something with them as just can't be arsed to get em propperly cleaned out and packed up and on ebay, ebay is such a pita!

i am going to explore both ideas later on. just taught.

hi insan3
one of theses could work well with air cooled lights between the ducting and fan
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cata...oduct_info&cPath=59_457_912&products_id=32306

Nope, not going to work.

Unless you live in a freezer... The water in the res needs to be much cooler then for your CPU and it's a much larger mass. A CPU cooler works by exchanging the heat with ambient air. In a chiller its exchanged with much cooler things. A cooler will allow you to get a 'colder then the room' temp. With a CPU type cooler you can only get it has cold as the room and you need a lot of flow over a large heat sink or a very cold area to get that to work. Works for CPUs cause they are just keeping it cool as the room or a little over and a very small mass compared to a tank of water.

My .02..

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...mm_Radiator_-_Black_35228.html?tl=g30c95s1148

i have 1 of this ^.


Return Line -> RES -> Waterpump -> rad sitting on ac unit -> Line to plants Or second res ?.

ac air temp coming out is 60F

tip top toker said:

Would most likely clog up the radiator and possbily damage the pump. Instead of using it for nute solution cooling, why not adapt it to cool your light instead. Wouldn't be that difficult to botch together a reliable water cooled light if you've the patience and tools. I've more radiators and pumps and blocks than i can shake a stick at, keep meaning to do something with them as just can't be arsed to get em propperly cleaned out and packed up and on ebay, ebay is such a pita!

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This is where people get into heat exchange tanks. Where it's the other way around. You put the radiator in the nute tank and run cold water through it.. Then cool that water with a chiller. No nutes in the chiller or the radiator...

It's 'A' way.. lol

eDude said:

Nope, not going to work.

Unless you live in a freezer... The water in the res needs to be much cooler then for your CPU and it's a much larger mass. A CPU cooler works by exchanging the heat with ambient air. In a chiller its exchanged with much cooler things. A cooler will allow you to get a 'colder then the room' temp. With a CPU type cooler you can only get it has cold as the room and you need a lot of flow over a large heat sink or a very cold area to get that to work. Works for CPUs cause they are just keeping it cool as the room or a little over and a very small mass compared to a tank of water.

My .02..

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I do not think he is talking about using a cpu block, but rather the res water going straight through the radiators. You aare correct in what you say, but you do not know the size or number of, or capability of the radiators in question, as that information has not been divulged, nor the size of the reservoir to be chilled down, it could just be for a tiny waterfarm. If it manages to knock a couple of degrees off the temp, then that could make all the difference for someones grow.

I am on your side though, i don't think it's really a feasible thing to do, and if the watercooling equipment is of a high quality then it could just get sold to fund a chiller. But done right it could work in some manner or other.

For reference, i use thermochill pa120.3's, and with the right fans, those things can remove a LOT of heat. But they are very expensive and yeah, you risk damaging the radiator and the pump.

once i put it to test ill post up the results.

hi insan3 sounds really good
could you put some pic's up as you build it
i wanted to make one a while back
like this one on the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5McHIyOQM8

thanks

currently running a
Cosair h50 on a i7 2600k at 4.2ghz
its doing great for a easy all in one setup.
im about to upgrade to EK-KIT H30 360 Liquid cooling setup. tell us on how you go ! thanks