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Picked up a mid tower airflow case, 3 front intakes, 1 rear, open top, evga rts 2070 non blower style. Stock AM4 cooler. I have a couple extra 120mm fans I can stick in the top. Should I pull in for 5 intakes, one exit plus 2070 and open card slots, or flip them and suck up?

Agreed. Captain "look in the distance in low light while wearing sunglasses in the winter in canada" doesn't really work. Give me slick with a double thumbs up - fonzie-style.

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But this misses the point. If it's an 85 degree day, at 100% efficiency it's still 85 in the room. With no insulatiive heat containment of the loop, it will get MUCH hotter in the room. Plus the old adage that each human puts off 100 watts just walking around... The maximum temperature of the system will be averaged more or less due to the distribution model. Without flow control, it will be less optimized. We haven't even discussed things like thermal expansion, which is why they need a high level reservoir/expansion tank...

This is one of my points. They do not want 75+ feet of 3/4" copper at 120 degrees (f) water pumping through the room. The return may even be above ambient temp, especially in summer. Hello AC.

Yes, insulation. The issue they were having was not with machines overheating, it was with the room overheating. They want the heat outside. So insulating the interior pipe keeps the heat out of the room... ...Insulation. Regulators are not for stepping down the pressure on the system, they are for regulating the amount of water going to a given machine so that they all get equal water flow from the loop. Imagine if the first machine in the loop has a single water block and the one at the end had a triple.

Why do people keep saying this? I have no doubt of his plumbing expertise. Balancing a multi-radiator system is a furnace installer's job. I have simply stated that from vague pictures that it seems to have little control and insulation. Great, he's a plumber, now address the concerns I and others have listed.

Interesting thought, they will definitely need to regulate both temp and flow. You do not want to thermal shock anything with really cold either, which means running the pump24/7. There is also the exchange rate to get proper efficiency from the radiators. If you take the thermostat (blockage) out of a car, even if the fluid is not too hot it doesn't have the time in the radiator to dissipate the heat...

I'd like to see a winter conversion where they put the rads in the basement to heat the house and pipe it to a reservoir in an insulated attic.

Good in theory, but there are no pressure gauges either, which means that when one machine starts to overheat they will be jumping through hoops trying to diagnose why. I suppose they could have a single gauge they put in line with the quick connects to help diagnose a problem, but a few more parts on the front end would go a long way...

PVC could easily handle the pressure. If the copper isn't insulated they'll need AC anyway, but it will look cool!

Thanks for the "trust Luke's dad" comment, very informative.

Is Linus's watercooling room terribly designed? I've only seen the pics from the end of the wan show, but here are some thoughts: 1) If you calculate the surface area of the copper used, they basically just installed a giant copper radiator full of hot water in the the room. With low pressure they could have used something like schedule 40 pvc or even pex with less heat bleed. To make matters worse, they're talking about polishing the copper instead of insulating the hot side of the loop. 2) Water will flow through the path of least resistance. If there are different components in different rigs, the flow with be differently restricted. Additionally, I saw no reducers in the image for individual drop-downs from the common line. That means that all things being equal, Linus's computer in the corner will be getting less flow. 3) I have a 100 year old hot water radiated house. Each radiator has a restriction valve to balance the flow, which does not appear to be in the design. Coupled with the fact that they stated that there will not be individual pumps it seems unregulated. I could easily be wrong as I have no detailed info of the setup, but from the pics and they way they discuss it it seems poorly designed. Let me know what you think.

Well, it gets more email addresses... Also, I might have 3 posts?, but I've been watching this for years, so not everything is fake. I had to use the forgot password link to apply for this. So, no I'm not a regular poster, but I could tell you more linus-lore than most on this forum.

I like the sheer size and resolution, I have large hands and my iphone 5 is little piss-ant. Also, being on at&t is finally useful for something!