Anyone connected their watercooling to a tap?

[Day03]

I was thinking that if you connect your water cooling directly to the water supply in your house you will get much better cooling. Not only it will be quiter as you will not need a pump and radiator but the water flowing through it will be much colder. In my house it is so cold that it hurts my teeth when I drink it

I was wondering if anyone has tried such a thing?

 

[squiffy]

Tap water contains impurities which'll eventually clog up the system. So not a good idea.

 

[weescott]

Been done and good for benching but hardly practical or green.

 

[A.N.Other]

Do you have any idea how much that would cost ?!

- if your water is metered, that is. Otherwise you're good to go

 

[Zefan]

Yep, has been thought of about as many times as the mini fridge idea.

 

[R B Customs]

for benching OK, but for an everyday system id quite like to goto that persons house and shove the other end of the loop where the sun dont shine. TOTAL waste of all thigns 'green' when theres a world of purpose built hardware out there to use

 

[HeadlessChicken]

1) Water shortage anyone?

2) To anyone saying (ok for benching) then I am afraid you are mistaken too, as the pressure from a water mains far exceeds the pressure waterblocks are built to withstand (and probably a lot of res's) It'll blow the top off of your WB and that's not good.

So in conclusion, no, you can't

 

[TaKeN]

Someone needs to create a thread called...


" The CPU Cooling Ideas That Just Wont Work ! "


and then have it turned into a sticky..

In the short time i have been here, ive lost count of the " Mini Fridge " idea lol

 

[sablabra]

Ok, ok, but what if we make this economical? Example: The water goes through the computer and warms up slightly, then it goes into the hot water container! It would save us money, right?

 

[FreeStream]

1) Water shortage anyone?

2) To anyone saying (ok for benching) then I am afraid you are mistaken too, as the pressure from a water mains far exceeds the pressure waterblocks are built to withstand (and probably a lot of res's) It'll blow the top off of your WB and that's not good.

So in conclusion, no, you can't

^^ As he says, no!

after a fwe weeks it will have lost quite a lot of its cooling properties..

If you want to go mental, lay a loop 1 ft under your garden, cold and heats your plants. Winner.

 

[R B Customs]

Ok, ok, but what if we make this economical? Example: The water goes through the computer and warms up slightly, then it goes into the hot water container! It would save us money, right?

erm... no

 

[sablabra]

erm... no

YES!

 

[weescott]

1)
2) To anyone saying (ok for benching) then I am afraid you are mistaken too, as the pressure from a water mains far exceeds the pressure waterblocks are built to withstand (and probably a lot of res's) It'll blow the top off of your WB and that's not good.

What? So your taps run fully open

 

[A.N.Other]

What? So your taps run fully open

Mmm I have to say point 2 is fundamentally flawed.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

I see no-one here fully understands the differences between head, pressure and flow

Go over to XS and read some

 

[weescott]

I see no-one here fully understands the differences between head, pressure and flow

Go over to XS and read some

There is no need to be condescending. I have been watercooling for a few years and know how watercooling works.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

If you understand it then you must know that pressure and flow (which happens when you open taps) are different?

DD used to have big disclaimers up about it as people were losing blocks to it.

Didn't mean to sound like a git BTW, just my sarcy overtones

 

[weescott]

There is the unknown pressure etc to deal with but it is after all a ghetto cooling solution. Plus the lower water temps is nice.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

Maybe if you welded the block up

Although in my area (east anglia) the water is so hard it would furr everything up within an hour

 

[Bundles]

Been there, done this.

It worked great, the 4c water temps helped drop my old XP2500 bartons temps by a huge amount, something like 17c iirc.

As for the pressure, well if you manage to "blow the top off of your block" then you would have to be a totaly disfunctional motherhubbard, you use the tap itself as a pressure regulator, when you see the hoses start to swell with the pressure, you know you're near the limit. Plus remember taps in every house have a different pressure, my new house has pathetic tap pressure, where as my old house was like an h2o eruption.

As for being green, well I run my system like that for about an hour and probably used no more water than the guy next door to you uses when he's watering his plants, sprinkling his lawn or washing his car/wife.

Since when did overclocking and tree hugging go hand in hand? just think of all the heat polution and extra electricity costs/production an overclocked PC uses compared to a stock one.