Fish Tank Cooling

Got me all excited until I saw it was just a window - there are a couple of guys out there supplying actual aquarium builds (mineral oil) that look brilliant - unfortunately the best of the bunch was shut down by a patent troll :mad:. Has got me thinking for my garage build...:p
 
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My favourite!
 
I want to see a water cooling build where the fish tank is only used as the Res and Pump.

like my 3 rad loop in total only takes 1.2 litre of coolant, but what if my Res and Pump was an external 20 litre fish tank full of coolant - that's what I wanna see
 
that wouldnt really make it a fish tank.... just a really big reservoir pump combo?
Are you actually talking about having fish in the tank also?
 
I like and have fish.
I like and have a PC.

I have never thought of combining the two.
Might be a bit cruel on the fish. :eek::cry:
 
The tank in the picture is mineral oil. I have seen fishtank designs where the rad's submerged in the tank with actual fish - balanced to keep both in the right range - clearly you couldn't have the same fluid running through the loop and the tank or your poor fish wouldn't last long :( It's a shame the idea has fallen from favour, the only real drawback in the old designs were that the HDD had to be dry (no issue with SSD now) and the wired components (keyboard / mouse) had a habit of slowly filling up with oil. Now that everything is wireless (even monitors soon) this could really work. I do have an old intel system sitting around gathering dust... :p
 
AllanDC said:
I like and have fish.
I like and have a PC.

I have never thought of combining the two.
Might be a bit cruel on the fish. :eek::cry:
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I'm sure it would be feasible with a tropical or marine tank, although you'd need some kind of split system, e.g. a heat-exchanger/radiator in the tank rather than including the tank water as part of the loop, otherwise you'd end up with all sorts of **** building up in the blocks & pump :eek:

Obviously the in-tank parts would need to be biologically safe, so copper is out of the question, and I think you'd need some kind of automatic bypass to a conventional radiator to regulate the tank temperature, unless you wanted cooked fish after an extended gaming session! :D

cavemanoc said:
the wired components (keyboard / mouse) had a habit of slowly filling up with oil
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How would this happen? Capillary action pulling it up the inside of the insulation or something?
 
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