Smart people... Help a noob out! (please D:)

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

Hello!!

I need pro help. I have a VERY limited budget, and I want to fully watercool my system. I know I am not buying any good parts, if any at this point. I am completely ghetto rigging this. My previous plans were to get copper coil around a big ass box fan and pump water from a 2 gallon reservoir. Once I found out my pump wasnt compatible, I scrapped my old idea and went back to the drawing board. My current plan is, and with research backing me up, could I theoretically use my 5.5 gallon fishtank, fill it with water, and just pump water through my system, no radiator, keeping my system absolutely silent and spending less then $100? Tell me what is wrong about this, etc etc. Thank you so much! 

Water maps:

#1:

2 gallon bucket with a pump inside, pumping water through vinyl tubing into a cpu block on the cpu, then a second cpu block on the gpu (vram cooled by small adhesive heatsinks), then forcing water out of the system into 20' of copper coil strapped onto a box fan to then be dumped into the 2 gallon bucket to start all over again.

#2:
5 (or more) gallon fishtank full of water with a pump inside pumping water through vinyl tubing into a cpu block on the cpu, then a second cpu block on the gpu (vram cooled by small adhesive heatsinks), then forcing water out of the system to be dumped back into the 5 (or more) gallon fishtank.


Now, logically speaking, the larger fishtank(s) I have, the longer it would tank to eventaully heat up all the water, and the sheer size of the fishtank(s) would promote heat dissipation. But this would also mean that the water would be ambient temperature, then would increasing heat up due to the cpu and gpu. I could solve this problem in 2 ways, an ass ton of fishtanks and water, or a large fishtank stacked with icepacks. The icepack idea would require a mini freezer though, and I would have to develope a schedule based upon how often I would need to switch out ice packs. Also, the icepack idea, depending on how cold and how many of them, would produce condensation...    At this point I am just ranting about different ways. If you are still reading this, tell me what you think! Tell me what I am doing/thinking incorrectly. Tell me some of your ideas! Thank you so much, you sir are the real MVP.

-AnOldieButAGoodie

[hak4fun]

I think it as ghetto as it gets, and that it might just work.... but I think you should probably just save up some cash... 

[Knaj]

Holy shit this is more ghetto than Linus's budget water cooled pc.

 

But honestly, the fishtank would heat up a lot after a while, and heres my ghetto method of fixing this:

Literally have copper tubes stick out of the fish tank, try to make a heat spreader out of aluminum sheets, and put a fan on it.

[Knaj]

I think it as ghetto as it gets, and that it might just work.... but I think you should probably just save up some cash... 

 

But he does have a point, you are risking damage to hardware doing this

[W-L]

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if you have any notation of doing this just remember since you basically have an open loop you will need to clean and maintain a lot, especially if your adding ice packs and things not to mention all the other things that come with watercooling. 

 

Personally I would highly suggest against this as many others seems to be.

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

 

Overclocking everything cause I cant afford to upgrade, and with increasing temperatures, I need something to seriously cool this thing

[Aytex]

Overclocking everything cause I cant afford to upgrade, and with increasing temperatures, I need something to seriously cool this thing

buy a h100 u have 100 bucks...

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

 

Holy shit this is more ghetto than Linus's budget water cooled pc.

 

But honestly, the fishtank would heat up a lot after a while, and heres my ghetto method of fixing this:
Literally have copper tubes stick out of the fish tank, try to make a heat spreader out of aluminum sheets, and put a fan on it.

What do you mean?

 

 

buy a h100 u have 100 bucks...

Rumor has it they arent as great as they say they are

[Aytex]

Rumor has it they arent as great as they say they are

buy a 212 or a H80 GT or a Seidon 120M Noctua NH-D14

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

buy a 212 or a H80 GT or a Seidon 120M Noctua NH-D14

I need something cool, like, 20c cool. Not 40c. 

[Aytex]

I need something cool, like, 20c cool. Not 40c. 

dude wtf even I dont even think custom loops nor aio's even get that low 

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

dude wtf even I dont even think custom loops nor aio's even get that low 

Hence the ultra ghetto build... Now can SOMEONE please help me? What works? What doesnt work? What is dumb? What should I add/remove?

[W-L]

Hence the ultra ghetto build... Now can SOMEONE please help me? What works? What doesnt work? What is dumb? What should I add/remove?

 

Ok let's make things clear, for custom loops they don't get to 20C at most many around 30C at idle with reasonable 22C ambient temps. If your looking for temps like those that's not going to happen.

 

As for what works and doesn't, why not invest in a WC kit from XSPC or EKWB they aren't crazy expensive, as said if you want to do it you can and from the looks of things it will work for the most part but keep the loop sealed 100% and add a biocide, be sure no aluminum, or steel is part of your loop with copper, brass or nickel or your going to experience galvanic corrosion. 

[AnOldieButAGoodie]

Ok let's make things clear, for custom loops they don't get to 20C at most many around 30C at idle with reasonable 22C ambient temps. If your looking for temps like those that's not going to happen.

 

As for what works and doesn't, why not invest in a WC kit from XSPC or EKWB they aren't crazy expensive, as said if you want to do it you can and from the looks of things it will work for the most part but keep the loop sealed 100% and add a biocide, be sure no aluminum, or steel is part of your loop with copper, brass or nickel or your going to experience galvanic corrosion. 

At first I was really considering buying one of those kits, but they cost $300 and higher! That is half the cost of my entire PC! I was blown away and said screw this, let my build a ghetto cooler that works just as good for $50

[W-L]

At first I was really considering buying one of those kits, but they cost $300 and higher! That is half the cost of my entire PC! I was blown away and said screw this, let my build a ghetto cooler that works just as good for $50

 

Watercooling is not cheap and it costs a lot initially but if it costs half your build at $300 you really shouldn't be watercooling lower end hardware it's not worth it for the most part. Going with big aircooler would be a better solution to get good temps but I'd only recommend that if your overclocking everything.

[unijab]

My guess is you would go through a pound of ice every 5 minutes if you are running it wide open.

[tomas710]

I need something cool, like, 20c cool. Not 40c. 

no one NEEDS 20ºC, that's just insulting for people with custom loops and more conventional cooling.  And the corrosion you would observe...Also, ice is not cheap, long term energy bills would add up for throwing a pack of ice daily. Not to mention that no one in their right mind would trust thair entire rig to basically a bath tub. And even if it all magically works, i would be shocked if you got less than 45ºC idle and 90 at load, making waterblocks is not a piece of cake, there's TONS of technology on just mounting systems and how to achieve good contact without breaking the mobo in half. Just....don't do this, it doesn't work likr that, it won't work. If you happen to make it and it works, i'll apologize, but thinking you'll get 20ºC is delusional.