Wall mounted watercooling setup

[garsands]

Would this work? see photo.

The pump would be just above the floor behind the PC not inside it, so I can get to it when I need to drain the system.

The tubes would enter & exit the case from the back (could not get the whole PC in the photo)

The wall is 40cm of solid stone you can feel the cold coming off it when you put your had close to it.

The radiator fans would be on the outside of the rads pulling the cold air from the stone wall through to cool the water. I would leave a 1cm gap between the wall & the rads.
I could even make a large shroud around the rads so the air has to travel along the wall to enter the rads making better use of the cold air coming off the wall.

So does this seem like a good plain
Thought it would look nice with some coloured fluids going around the wall.
I don't have the room for a watercooling setup inside a case or a larger case.

 

[kiel367]

id say with that amout of space between the pump and the res/rad would put too much stress on the pump, from my experience its lways better to have the pump higher than the rest, but someone may disprove this in a moment lol

 

[moogle]

If it's going through the waterblock first then up to the rads then I think the pump may struggle to get water up there first so have a fillport somewhere up there to put coolant in to help the pump push the water through.

I think once it's filled and the air is out, with a decent pump it will probably work fine. Even though the pump is pushing the water up a distance, the water coming down will be cancelling.

 

[shadowscotland]

I wall mounted my water loop - but I also had the case on the all too.
It's the pumps head that's the problem.

Could you mount the rads and res on the underside of the desk?

 

[Bubo]

I hope there is still enough room for Hedwig.

An 18W ddc would deal with the head required I would have thought. You should be able to virtually fill this to the top without having to switch the pump on which will make things easier. Normally you want the pump inlet to be directly after the res, not via the rads as you have it, but in this instance it wouldn't matter that much as the way I would fill this would be to take the tube off the bottom of the res and block that port on the res with something, start to fill the loop with water until water is just about to come out of the tube you have taken off, then put that tube back on the res. This way you have virtually filled the loop without having to blip the pump. It would definately be more conventional to have the res before the pump and you could still fill the loop with the method above, it depends if the way you run your tube makes this possible. You might be able to fill it without taking the tube off as well, it just depends on whether you get an air lock which would stop you filling.

Fully bleeding could be tricky though as you can't exactly turn things upside down to get all the air out, though careful planning of where you put your inlets and outlets could get round this, e.g. rad ports at the top as you have it.

I'd go with the ducting idea, say a long duct along the wall so air has a chance to lose heat to the wall, but there will be a balancing act between having too much ducting and a consequntial too great a air pressure drop across the rad, which would need powerful fans to overcome.

 

[garsands]

Thanks for the replies.

Could you mount the rads and res on the underside of the desk?

No room also the fans on the rads would be blowing cool air on the legs/feet.

I did not think about clearing the trapped air as it's fixed to the wall.
Woud need to blast it with mains pressure to bleed it.

Oh well back to the cooling drawing board.