Watercooling question

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Would it be possible to watercool a system using copper piping? Because i can think of many advantages to this, not the least of which being increased heat loss through the pipes, less likely to leak and since it would have to have more sharp corners; increased water speed. It would take more to install it, but as a concept is it possible? You could even weld lots of washer style things to the outside of the piping to act as a heatsink.
 
Jokester said:
Sharp corners are more restrictive than gentle bends, so will reduce water speed. How are you going to install the copper tubes? Compression fittings?
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Not at all, bends would increase the flow of water. Kind of like having a smaller point at one end would speed it up. Forcing the water to take a different path speeds it up. Don't ask me how, it just does.
 
Jokester said:
Ah sorry yes your right, but that is not important, except for impingement type blocks (which look after themselves). What I meant that it restricts the flow rather than speed. Flow velocity is otherwise irrelevant, flowrate is king and even then it has marginal affects on cooling performance.
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Yes, i understand. It would only have a noticeable advantage in a loop where you weren't using a pump. But copper is a far better heat conductor than plastic, so wouldn't it loose a lot more heat? Especially so if you had tubes like this (1337 Paint skillz!):

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If that makes it any clearer... the pipe is covered in lots of copper discs that act as heat sinks. And it would have a lot lower chance of leakage, how many times has the plumbing in your house leaked? Still, connecting it to the blocks and such would be difficult. Unless you somehow got exactly the right sized pipe and made some sort of screw thing... or *kicks self for forgetting the name* found a way to attach one of those things where you put them together then twist it on... like on a carabiner:

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If you could work it out in such a way that everything could be lined up, you could forgoe the pipe bending and use 'L' bends. It would be a lot easier.
 
That's what i was talking about with 'L' bends. But a squirting of Epoxy around the places where it might leak would greatly decrease the possibility of that happening, and i doubt it would anyway.

The problem i envisage would be upgrades... how would you get to the CPU and such likes? You could unscrew it from the CPU clips, then use a good enough case and take off the motherboard tray through the other side of the case than you usually would, if i'm making any sense here :p
 
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