rad orientation for passive cooling

well despite my computer wo's

filled my system and left it for 12 hours, just sitting

now its leak testing running both pumps

is 24 hours a good amount of time, i've never done this before
 
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That's a monster!

Can you give us any ideas of temperatures, problems you're having, noise level etc? This looks really interesting.

Also, what coolant are you using? From your comment it sounds like water & antifreeze, but surely that would be conductive if it leaked?
 
lol, its from a jaguar v12...

temps were 66,67,69,66 after 6 hours prime @ 4.5

its passive so quiet..... apart from my graphics card, which is not quiet, its not too bad though, unless you stress it then it gets anoying, but aside from grafting on some homebru choped up waterblock or big heatsink too it ill have to deal with it


happy though

and yeah distilled water and antifreeze, the trick is to not let it leak...... be alright lol

edit. it is a bit heavy though... you can just about see the metal frame , its all as one, bolted together so i can move it, rad is about 5kg 4L of water, 3ish kg of steel, some wood, and the computer
 
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Full marks to you for getting it working :)

How high do you think you can push your overclock then? I'm sure you can get more than 4.5ghz out of it! Although passively that's still pretty impressive.

I'd love to try this but I'd probably use something a bit smaller. I got a brand new radiator for my Rover 200 last year for £30, that'd probably do the job.
 
passey89 said:
is that a car radiator?

make sure you got a really good pump to push through tht.
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Not really, as far as the pump is concerned its taking water from a res pumping it through two blocks and back to the res, hardly a restrictive loop.


oneofmanyjoes said:
spot the error, copper block, thats a copper cored rad

then i went and put bloody ally reducer blocks in it

oops. will this mix corrode the copper or just the ally, if its only the ally i dont mind as its about 8mm thick
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Yes, it will absolutely destroy it in seconds, just like it would an aluminium engine block ;) you will be fine as your running antifreeze and it contains corrosion inhibitors for just this scenario.
 
ubersonic said:
Not really, as far as the pump is concerned its taking water from a res pumping it through two blocks and back to the res, hardly a restrictive loop.

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my rad is very non-restrictive, when i was testing it from a hose on my tap i couldnt fill it as fast as it was emptying


im running 15% antifreeze, hope thats enough
 
well...

4 months later and its still running strong, its been sitting in a cupboard with no vents, no fans, run for days on end

i just got back from a ski season and i was the only one to take any films so its been in the living room and abused for months and all seems well

once im settled im gona try getting it to 5ghz
 
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