External water cooling

Seems expensive.

You would still have to get all the tubing and all the water blocks in there just no the radiators. So you remove maybe 2 lengths of tubing...
 
All I have in my case are the two blocks and three short lengths of tubing. My pumps are in a box along with the fan controller for the radiator fans, my res is mounted on the wall next to the pump box and my rads are mounted in a box on the windowsill outside my little pc room sucking colder air from outside. The rads are connected to the rest of the system via a pair of 6 feet lengths of 12mm copper pipe (10/16mm tubing goes over 12mm pipe nice and tightly). Obviously inside the rad box there is flexible tubing and it's how the box is connected to the pipe. It works a treat and gives me fantastic temps.
 
Did that actually work? fantastic product if it cooled well while being fanless. It looks ok too.. put it under the desk to keep feet toasty.
 
Bimbleuk, you had better remove that link as they are a competitor and links to competitors are agaisnt forum rules.


DW. said:
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Here you go.

Case internals. The temp monitor is showing the current water temp going to the components in the case.




Pump box. Only running one of my pumps at the moment to see how much difference it makes to running both. At the moment there is very little to recommend running both. The fan blows air across the Lamptron fan controller. The cut out's in the rear used to be for the psu that I had running all the watercooling stuff. Now it's all run off the main pc psu using a load of extension cables I made up. The res on the wall is a modified XSPC Photon 270. The other one is a filter I made up from a cheap Barrow res and the internal filter from a diesel filter off Ebay. I was having problems with my blocks gunking up and despite many changes of tubing, several Mayhems Blitz Pro kits through everything could never stop it. This cheap and effective solution stopped it dead.





Rad box. Both rads have the fans mounted on the window side of the box so they are pushing the air through the rads. The entire window side of the box is filtered to stop dust and beasties getting in. This is version 3 of the box. Both previous versions had the top rad mounted in the roof of the box but I found that stacking them the way they are now is much easier when it comes to bleeding them.




Close up of the 10/16mm hose fitting over the end of the 12mm copper tubing. It's tight but I still have clamps on the tubing just in case. Also a shot of the copper pipe going from the rad box to the pump box. There is another section between the pump box and case to cut down on replacement tubing.





It all works a treat for me. The reason I started watercooling in the first place was to get the heat out of my room. It's a pair of built in cupboards knocked into one and is only around 6x5 feet so back then components used to run much hotter and it quickly became very warm in here so I came up with this idea and haven't looked back since.
 
And I thought my external rads were extreme ....
Have you actually replaced a window there Pasty?

I end up with my window propped open all the time but if the pc is on I suppose your actually sending vaguely warm air into the house...
Hmmmm

Now what can I do to get the wife out the house for the day while I build something like this ... :)
 
No the window is still there. Christ, the wife would kill me. :D

I just vary the amount the window is open. In the winter it's open barely a crack and it's enough for single figure water temps.
 
I use a one external rad 560 with 4x140mm fans at low rpm, mounted under the desk beside my tower.

Going external rad makes it easier to build the loop and maintain and should work out cheaper depending on what you buy.
 
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