Can you make your watercooled pc run of your house water supply?

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I woke up and started thinking about this...
Has anyone ever or is it possible to run a water cooled pc from your main water supply in your house? I would think thats pretty neat ( i know its a different liquid inside watercooled pcs).

If you want it to be colder you could possible just make it run through a radiator with a few fans. Or if you want more water to run through faster just open up valve or something :)
Crazy idea i know but is it possible?
 
Yes.
But what a waste of water, seriously! Plus you may have limescale problems, corrosion problems (The additives in water cooling stop this).
 
There's some saner approaches, mostly based around heat exchangers. A few people sit a radiator in the water tank of a toilet, I think that's pretty good. My favourite is someone who buried loads of copper pipes in his garden on the basis that it's colder than ambient in the ground, and if he goes down far enough he avoids surface frost. You could wrap copper piping around the house intake, keeps the fluids separate. Cooler computer at the cost of warmer water from the cold tap. No idea if it would be significantly cooler computer.
 
marc512 said:
Turn on the fans on your radiator :P make them the 6 delta force fans spinning at max rpm.
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Thats silly! Thats like making a kettle your res, boiling it, and then puting a big fan over it to cool it back down! - You really need to worry about other things :p
 
JonJ678 said:
There's some saner approaches, mostly based around heat exchangers. A few people sit a radiator in the water tank of a toilet, I think that's pretty good. My favourite is someone who buried loads of copper pipes in his garden on the basis that it's colder than ambient in the ground, and if he goes down far enough he avoids surface frost. You could wrap copper piping around the house intake, keeps the fluids separate. Cooler computer at the cost of warmer water from the cold tap. No idea if it would be significantly cooler computer.
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Nearly brought a tear to my eye! I wish I still had photos from my Loo-Blu project from a couple of years back - was great fun (radiator immersed in my toilet cistern).

As above - not really worth plumbing it straight into the mains - closest I've seen that worked (apart from the toilet!) was immersing the radiator in the house cold water tank. Not my cup of tea though - wouldn't want to contaminate my drinking source.

If you really want to go crazy - my favourite is still the swimming pool cooled computer.
 
you could get a water but outside, coil a load of copper pipe around the inside of it and then pass the coolent through it.
 
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