water chillers?

vapor matt · 17 Jun 2007 at 12:46

ok iam board!

Anyone have any experince with water chilling? looking at maybe getting another phase change system but a water chiller would also cool the GFX card in the loop which would be handy, only thing which worrys me is the sweating of the water block and GPU block.

how much diffence in C between air and water chilled loop would induce sweating. ie like having a cold glass of coke say with ice and the glass sweats on the outside causeing water droplets which would cause serious probs on any parts inside the case.

anyone tried thgis before?

matt

dante6491 · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:43

tis condensation, good insulation should stop it.

only problem i see is that if you get it cool enough, would it get cold bugged? dunno if gpu cores get this....

doctoe2260 · 17 Jun 2007 at 18:20

Condensation will be the issue, as said. It happens whenever anything drops below the ambient air temperature (by any amount). With a chiller you will need to insulate the entire loop to prevent condensation. If you only want to deal with condensation at the chips then either use phase or pelts.

cavemanoc · 18 Jun 2007 at 01:32

Ahhh chillers... so much fun, so little time - I loved mine, was great fun, now it's gathering dust in the garage

Chillers are a nice middle ground between Water and Phase, relatively cheap (got mine for a song) they will cool to below 0C with the right setup. There are a couple of problems, especially with todays market.

Condensation: Yep - you'll need to wrap all the tubing and the blocks - I'll mount some picks if I can track them down - not hard, but a little chore that makes the tubes quite bulky.

Overload: Mine was an R12 chiller (not a brilliant gas) that was good to about 200W, not much use if you're running both a heavily overclocked conroe and a GTX or 2.

Noise: again - quite noisy depending on your compressor - if you got a nicely tweaked one then it could be quiet, but the standard stuff you get is pretty loud.

So - will I ever use mine again? Never say never, I was considering Pelts again the other day - but TBH I think given the quality of Radiators available now, I'd rather go with a Pelt/Rad solution than a chiller. Who knows - depends how bored I get