Watercooled PC Positioning To improve Air Flow and Lack any Vibration

lake2k

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Hi I am trying to get some advice on where to position my Watercooled pc, At the moment i have it on a carpet under my desk, as its to heavy for puting on a desk

The desk is wood and with heat rising it makes the desk really warm more so in summer.

My enquiry is, could this also be making my pc to hot as there is only about 10 or 15 cm from the base of the desk its under and cause tubing to loosen

The radiator is at the top of the case

And i am also thinking of placing it on a wood shelf or something similar to seperate it from the carpet

At the other side of the desk there is a subwoofer and was thinking can the vibration cause damage to this kind of build

My concerns are because last year i had a water leak where the tubing came loose from the waterblock on the cpu while running and then it instantly shut down

It was fine for around 5 years though so maybe that was just bad luck

Is it possible that vibration from the subwoofer or the lack of air flow could have loosened this and placing it on a wood shelf or maybe a rubber mat would make it overall better

Dont get me wrong the Temps are brilliant, never above 60 when stressed we cpu or GPU

Any advice will be appreciated thanks
 
The heat has to go somewhere and blowing up onto your desk thus making it hot but your temps are good so no concerns about your pc.

If theres no gap under your pc this will restrict airflow to some degree but raising it up is only going to put it nearer to the desk top.

Subwoofer i doubt that it would have loosned your cooler its more likely the constant heat cycles and only just being tight enough originally.

Putting it on a wood shelf above or below the desk ?
 
Id be Placing it on the carpet so under the Desk, which is the other concern unless i just leave it on carpet, i check regular and its very rarely dusty, i maybe just over thinking

Thanks
 
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Without seeing a pic, it depends if you have air intakes on the bottom of the case. Certainly on carpet the least I would do is reverse the PSU so the intake is pointing up in to the case ( assuming there is nothing covering the holes ). Oddly, a sub-woofer is capable of vibrating things, so I guess it could loosen fittings that are a bit too loose anyway.
 
lake2k said:
Hi I am trying to get some advice on where to position my Watercooled pc, At the moment i have it on a carpet under my desk, as its to heavy for puting on a desk

It was fine for around 5 years though so maybe that was just bad luck
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Water cooled PC's need maintenance. Well, any PC needs some maintenance, however with WC, fluid needs to be changed, seals and tubes can perish or harden, constant heat cool can cause fittings to get loose, debris can reduce flow, radiators fill with dust etc.

How hot is the system? if the radiators are blocked with dust the coolant will heat up.
The rads on my WC system are usually around 10C over ambient.... though I do have 3 x 240mm dissipating max 350W which is probably double what I need.
 
It main seem like a daft question, how can i check my Rad Temps, I no how to monitor everything else, also my pc has approx 15 cm from the wall other than what i pointed out being about 10cm from the base of the table and on a thin carpet, and everytime i do clean it, fairly clean to start with
The system is always under 30c when not on full load and always reduces to around this shortly after a stress or gaming session
Which is what i always been impressed by
 
lake2k said:
It main seem like a daft question, how can i check my Rad Temps, I no how to monitor everything else, also my pc has approx 15 cm from the wall other than what i pointed out being about 10cm from the base of the table and on a thin carpet, and everytime i do clean it, fairly clean to start with
The system is always under 30c when not on full load and always reduces to around this shortly after a stress or gaming session
Which is what i always been impressed by
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Facts

Temps never go above 60c and thers seems to be enough room at the he bottom of the case for airflow.

Your main concern after the leak was desk getting hot

How are you monitoring temps ?
 
I just thought that reason for desk getting hot was, we heat rising and it being wood, it was used for several years even though not constant, ive had it all repaired since we new waterblock and cpu, and replaced some of the tubing with the same type, which is hard tubing as well
i use cpu z, and evga and bios
When you mean never go above 60c, i do find for a few seconds one core on the cpu, which i now have a 10850k will do during benchmarks but then goes back to well below instantly
i spot this in cinebench
 
Personally i never put my pc's under a desk or near carpet. It's always on a desk or above ground. I've always had sturdy desks though so its never been an issue. 60c is perfectly fine, once the heat leaves the case theres very little chance of it recycling back into the case as hot air rises (if your pc is setup that way).

You can't really check rad temps without plugging in a sensor (G1/4 sensors are popular using a T-piece or running a flow meter with temp sensor build in will give you coolant temps).

As for tubes coming out or failing, you won't have any issues if your coolant temps sit around 30c or around there. For tubing to melt and start to deform it would need to be way up in the 60's or above and by that time it your components would be cooking and would have shut down.
 
What actually happen was one day a was playing a game, Metro exodus it just shut down and i heard this noise and saw liquid all undercase, when i look closely i noticed the tube had disconnected from the waterblock

The case is Huge and very heavy, wouldnt want to risk it on my ikea desk
 
lake2k said:
What actually happen was one day a was playing a game, Metro exodus it just shut down and i heard this noise and saw liquid all undercase, when i look closely i noticed the tube had disconnected from the waterblock

The case is Huge and very heavy, wouldnt want to risk it on my ikea desk
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What type of tubing are you using and which block? cpu or gpu?
 
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