spot where my radiator is ( you will never guess )

Five.Stars said:
Probably spent hundreds on fittings! :D
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Nope I reused all the fittings from 7 years ago and because I did need more I just buy plastic nylon ones that are for the automotive industry and cost penny's each, even the y splitters only cost me a quid or so and the special shaped manifolds I just turn them up. So no it doesn't cost much unless you are drawn into buying these overpriced fittings that they coat in a fancy paint colour then charge the earth for them. I use car hose spring clamps that are holding the hoses together on your cars cooling system as they are designed to cope with temps of 110 degree's c and pressures of 50 psi and therefore just will not leak in my system that actually has a negative presure of 1 psi when the pump is running as the pump is sucking the water out of the PC because I placed the pump on the out flow and not the in flow.
 
Would it not cool slightly better if the loop in was at the top of the water butt going down. As the bottom would be the coolest part.

It may make 0.00000000001 Deg difference mind



Has anyone cooled by using and old Guiness extra cold cooler
 
stuie said:
Dont you get issues with condensation?
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No I don't have problems with condensation as in the winter months I turn the red levers that you can see in the video which diverts the incoming cold water to 10 meters of 22 mm bore copper tubing that runs behind my desk and that takes the chill of the water before it enters the pc. And in the warmer months I again turn the levers diverting the water so it comes in directly to the pc. The water pump is on the floor behind the pc I think I do show it in the video I pumps 400 litres an hour if I remember correctly as the pump is also seven years old and is still going strong.
 
mattyg said:
Would it not cool slightly better if the loop in was at the top of the water butt going down. As the bottom would be the coolest part.

It may make 0.00000000001 Deg difference mind



Has anyone cooled by using and old Guiness extra cold cooler
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Because I still use up to half of the water butt water to water the flowers in the summer I decided to have the water coming in at the bottom then coiling up the butt then back down again using a tighter coil and I used 22 mm copper pipe and the loop holds about 8 litres of water to fill it not including the 50 gallons in the butt to sink out the heat
 
am not having an dig hear but i hope your not an plumber by trade :) i got to say that's one total mess. the only thing that looks any good is the gpu temp
but if your happy with it well done but i know my misses would kill me if i done that :)
 
Love what you've done - it really delivers on the original theme of modding and overclocking. I'm surprised at the location of the filter in the loop - would that not have been better placed in line with the pump as opposed to off the GPU loop, that way the muck doesn;t travel and get embedded in the narrow heat exchanger fins within your GPU/CPU.

Probably negligible difference - it clearly all works and very well too ;)

Look forward to seeing any other projects you've got.
 
kaku said:
Can't imagine doing something that extreme in my house. The results speak for themselves though!
Have to admit I'm surprised you're using a relatively 'weak' pump. I'm guessing the lack of any radiator-related restriction helps somewhat?
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the pump i use only pumps 400 litres an hour and that is when it was new, let alone the wear and tear that it has on it having been pumping for 7 years, it probally only pumps 300 litres nowadays. but the fact is that when you are using water coming in at 9 degrees at this time of year and have 50 gallons of it and the pc just isn't going to be able heat that lot up you don't need a powerful pump as it can just leisurely circulate around the loop. but when you have a system that holds just say 2 litres or so of water you need a rapid pump that is working its socks off passing as much water past the cpu etc as possible then big fans trying to remove the heat in the radiator as fast as possible because it only has a second or so inside of the radiator before it is back in the cpu heating up again. thanks for the remarks you gave me. :-)
 
Tattysnuc said:
Love what you've done - it really delivers on the original theme of modding and overclocking. I'm surprised at the location of the filter in the loop - would that not have been better placed in line with the pump as opposed to off the GPU loop, that way the muck doesn;t travel and get embedded in the narrow heat exchanger fins within your GPU/CPU.

Probably negligible difference - it clearly all works and very well too ;)

Look forward to seeing any other projects you've got.
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yes i wanted to put it in the main loop but the filter only has a tube bore of 8mm whereas the main system has a bore of 13mm and that would have put a big strain on the old pump of mine.
so i decided to just filter a section of the water as it will eventually filter it all over time.
the water in my old loop was inside for 7 years i never changed it at all as i used ptnuke to kill all bacteria and car antifreeze. and also after a time the water just isn't dirty any more.
thanks for your kind remarks
 
Tattysnuc said:
Love what you've done - it really delivers on the original theme of modding and overclocking. I'm surprised at the location of the filter in the loop - would that not have been better placed in line with the pump as opposed to off the GPU loop, that way the muck doesn;t travel and get embedded in the narrow heat exchanger fins within your GPU/CPU.

Probably negligible difference - it clearly all works and very well too ;)

Look forward to seeing any other projects you've got.
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i have the ability to reverse the direction of the pump and it back washes it like a swimming pool then the filter will pick up the dirt again over time.
but i will say that the old gpu cooler only had 4 big fins inside the heat exhanger, but the new heat exchanger does have these micro fins so i might have to flush it out more often, time will tell.
and as my cpu block is just the old one from the old system it still does have the 4 big fins, so i'm ok there
 
chillidog said:
am not having an dig hear but i hope your not an plumber by trade :) i got to say that's one total mess. the only thing that looks any good is the gpu temp
but if your happy with it well done but i know my misses would kill me if i done that :)
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don't you worry yourself, we are all different, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same. thanks for your remarks though
 
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