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Hiya everyone. Looking for a one-up forum for best performance cooler Looking for: Best performance in Cooling. Not looking for: Quiet, Silent Limitations 1: Max width, length and height of 3M for the cooling unit itself. Limitations 2: Has to be self-sustainable. The tags include both exotic and cooler mods to me meaning custom ideas and concepts so go crazy! Use this as both a way to show your knowledge and also get together with the community!

Hi everyone, this is my first post on LTT Forums, I have been looking forward to building a server using a 5950x to host possible multiple games servers at a time between me and my friends and whomever and want to overclock the wazoo out of it, because... Why not. My catch is, I don't want to be spending more than £700 at maximum realistically I have a half server rack in my bedroom available to mount & such, so space isn't an issue, noise isn't much of a concern either as I can sound proof it too. (I could reasonably fit 18 360mm Radiators into the cabinet and 30+ if I wanted to maximize it.) At the start of this month, I made plans to build a server and give it crazy cooling, but wanted it to be safe for non-stop operation without requiring daily service with reasonable redundancy (Bi-weekly is acceptable), I have done small amounts of research, but have found more opinions than facts on whether something is effective or not and come up short in a lot of other areas. My currently plan (Crappy diagram below) is to use 2 x 360mm Radiators to cool down the water from the CPU to a very reasonable, if not ambient temperature, then use a 1 x 360mm Radiator to cooler each 200w TEC (Two) I did see a video of Linus pushing nearly 1kw through a TEC cooler but I could immediately see multiple inefficiencies and just problems with the plan because they overwhelmed their TEC is a CPU, and put so much power through it that they would've been unable to dissipate the heat from the TEC, let alone the CPU. In turn, it would mean I have double the surface area & half the heat to remove, in theory giving me 4 times the efficiency of the TEC's, additionally the water is already pre-cooled to a reasonable temperature so I hope the water could be cooled to sub-zero temperatures. (I'm aiming for around... -30 to -15) I know condensation maybe an issue, but I plan to have extremely high airflow being forced through the case with up to 650~ CFM on the intake if condensation remains an issue. I was looking into Single Phase cooling, but every time I looked was like a slap in the face, road block after road block of seeing stuff, but never getting a price or power usage, or websites being missing from years ago. Would you guys consider this a reasonable idea or something plausible? Would this work as I intend it to? What other sub-zero cooling solutions are there? I'm not set in any specific path and want to hear what other people have to say. P.S If anyone wants to know how I'm mounting it, what it looks like and parts ect, just drop a comment of what you want to know. Links: Case: https://www.logic-case.com/products/rackmount-chassis/4u/4u-standard-chassis-10-x-35-hdd-+-1-x-25-hddssd-+-3-x-525-bays-sc-416a/ Planned Build: PCPartPicker Part List

For my first water cooling loop I installed 3 EK Slim 360 radiators as shown in the picture attached. I am concerned that I am impeading my performance by not having any freash air intakes. would my cooling performance be improved with the removal of one of the radiator and replacing it with just pure air intakes or increasing the thickness of some of the radiators? Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I'm thinking of running an overclocked amd system that has 5950x and 6900xt and since my room is relatively warm I was looking at running a soft-tube configuration linked to a chiller. I am fully aware of the risks of running a chiller and low temps and condensation etc. Now my question is whether a chiller like Vevro CW5200 would be ok or I should go for a more specialized Alphacool Eiszeit 2000 would be a better choice? Thanks in advance.

As of now, the most popular ways to cool heat sinks attached to electronics are air cooling and water cooling. However both these simply move heat away rather than deal with it. This causes server rooms and offices with rooms full of workstations to heat up, which ends up hurting the efficiency of the cooling anyway. So instead of attaching a pump, piping and radiator to your processor and attaching a fan to blow the heat away from the radiator, what if you put the radiator in a solution of ammonium nitrate and water. Ammonium nitrate dissolved into water is an endothermic process which means the reaction absorbs heat, causing the surroundings to cool down, even to the point where water outside of the container freezes (commercial cold packs use this reaction). This solution could be cycled away when the reaction ends as ammonium and nitrate ions bond back together and crystallize. You just evaporate the water and you would be left with the ammonium nitrate. Now you would add water and the reaction would start again. I'm posting this idea to see if anyone has any reasons why this may or may not work, and thank you in advance for your feedback. Also, if anyone knows any metals that conduct heat well that would be resistant to corrosion from ammonium nitrate and water, please let me know. Right now aluminium seems like the best option since it is listed as mostly corrosion resistant to ammonium nitrate.

Befor you all say it's to expensive I know the cost to performance would not be ideal. Diminishing returns aside if you replaced your CPU heat spreader with a plate of silver and a replica stock cooler made of silver. Would even a few degrees allow you to run quieter or even a small overclock attainable. Also I don't think that the amount of silver it would take would be all that much makeing the forms would be more expensive.

I have a question: can linus make a sound cooled pc? By sound cooled i mean when speakers make vibrations the air also moves and so it works as a fan.

Hello. I'm currently trying to do a peltier-water all in one cooling with pwm control to avoid condensation. I'm studying mechanical engineering and I want to do this as a project.. However I'm bit stuck right at the beginning of the calculations... Any engineers who have experience with peltiers? I know that they act as heat pumps, transferring heat from cold to hot side when you run some electric power into them... Am I just imagining that it can make the cooling more efficient? Theoretically speaking, if I overclock the CPU, put a peltier element on top of it and try to pump away the heat, the watercooling will still be my bottleneck and will still transfer the same amount of heat it normally would ... It would just make the peltier element warmer and that's it right?

hey guys ive been doing some research on peltier modules and some people have used them for cooling their cpu. i know its risky because of the risk of condensation but if its done right this could be.... mindblowingly useful for gamers and overclockers. so i was wondering if anyone on here has done it before and had any opinons/tips for this? maybe a guide or a link to a good video? thanks in advance

Hello everyone! I have some questions about Cooler Master's Nepton 240M liquid cooler. I want to buy this cooler and I was wondering about its dimensions. My case is a Cooler Master N500. According to Cooler Master, this case is perfect for a liquid cooler named SEIDON 240M. So, what do you think? Can the Nepton 240M fit my case? Are its dimensions similar to Seidon 240M's? Oh, and last but not least. I want this cooler to OC my i7 4790k to 4.6 GHz. Is it ok for such a frequency?

My idea is simple. Instead of using radiators and pumps in a loop, use cold tap water that goes in the drain after cooling the PC. Tap --> CPU --> GPU --> Drain. Where i live in Norway we don`t pay for water usage, only for being connected. This idea would be cheaper as it doesn't need a radiator nor a pump, and possibly cooler depending on how cold the tap water is.

First off I have no clue where to post this. Here, in build plan, or in hobby electronics ... or somewhere else complete ... but for me it is most likely to be posted here. I have a Zotac ZBOX-EN1070-BE* which I upgraded from a Core i5 6400T to a i7 7700T with same tdp ... already a while ago. Runs fine so far. But as soon as I fire up something demanding I recognized that the PC didn't was as fast as it should. After finally getting around installing MSI afterburner to monitor the system constantly I found out that above 75°C the PC throttles ... which made me adjust the fan curves so that the fans run at max speed at 70°C already. Alas ... no luck the heat sink is way too wimpy. it reaches 75°C after a few seconds and stays there (and throttles ... and it seems a lot) And I can't replace it either since it once unit with the graphics cooler and the VRM cooler. So I got the wild idea in my head to stick additional cooling on top of existing one. Basically cooling the heatsink that is then cooling the CPU (and partially the GPU as well). see: Which would require me to saw a hole in the case for the "conventional" cooler to go through. But I don't know if that has too much effect ... so my wild idea is to place a peltier element (106W) in between that and the coolers and control it with a raspberry pie 0 and ready made set of temperature probes (so that it doesn't cool below ambient) What do you think ... would it work without peltier and is that with it just overkill? Any other ideas? ___________________________________ *= Pretty much this box ... for reference ... they don't advertise my model anymore ... but this one is basically the same (only updated processor) https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/magnus-en1070k Part list: Computer (see above) Peltier element https://www.conrad.de/de/p/tru-components-hp-127120-peltier-element-14-5-v-dc-12-a-106-w-l-x-b-x-h-40-x-44-x-2-8-mm-1572742.html Pi zero https://www.conrad.de/de/p/raspberry-pi-zero-512-mb-ohne-betriebssystem-1693283.html Relays https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07CNR7K9B Sensor https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00D2UFKK0 or https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01MZG48OE Power supply https://www.conrad.de/de/p/mean-well-lrs-150-12-ac-dc-netzteilbaustein-geschlossen-12-5-a-150-w-12-v-dc-1439463.html CPU cooler: ... I think any would do ... but maybe this one https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01KVNCEIG/

I'm having thermal issues with overclocking and was wondering if any of you know of a liquid cooling solution that would fit my budget gaming build? MY RIG Asrock IMB-170 socket g2 mini itx server motherboard Core i7-3740qm 2.7ghz clocked to 3.3ghz (45x multiplier) hyperthreads to 4.09ghz AMD Radeon RX 580 8gb MSI Amour OC NIB ARK 600 WATT PSU 16gb Corsair Vengeance ddr3 1600mhz sodimm ram Sandisk 240gb SSD Cooler Master Elite 130 Case I've seen many 120mm fans & radiators like that of the Corsair H80i v2 that would work with my case but don't know if the mounts would fit my motherboard

Im just wanting to know if this is really out or Micro Center is doing some sketchy marketing tactics. Link to the store listing

So I'm looking for some new white radiator fans (going to use with Halos Digital Lux) and was wondering which of these two fans is more suited for an overclocked 2700X on a 240mm radiator?

When I watched the video on both the mineral oil pc and the one where he used an aquarium chiller and how both are good at cooling with each of their down sides. The mineral oil being that it is annoying to replace pc components and some wires cannot be used under the mineral oil surface; and the chiller’s issue being that you can’t have really cold temp because of due point. so my crazy idea is that you have a mineral oil pc but instead of having radiators on the outside loop, you have a chiller that chills the oil right down to very cold temps which may allow you to have amazing cooling and might be able to over clock higher than you could with even liquid cooled. okay, now that I think about this more in-depth, it made me think that maybe you could have the scenery of the build resemble that of the Antarctic or Arctic regions.

Hello lads, A thought crossed my mind, What if I put Mineral oil inside a closed loop system, and frankly what I've found out on some older posts that my necromancy skill didn't allow me to resurrect, was astonishingly miss informed, I currently have an AIO, my system barely needs even that amount of cooling, so with some key points I'd like to point out, I'd like to discuss with some crazies that done/ want to do, some more unusual liquid cooling solutions. First things first let's dive down to some numbers: Specific heat of water is around 1 kcal/kg, and its viscosity is around 1 cP@20ºC, but let's be more realistic and place it at 0.9cP@40ºC, the idle temp of most loops. The specific heat of Mineral oil is around 0.4 kcal/kg, so it transfers heat at more than double the speed of water, so that fluffer that keeps saying in every single forum that I've visited that mineral oil is an insulating liquid can go plow a troll, it's viscosity is around 44cP@20ºC or ~15cP@40ºC, so it would require a larger than average pump to maintain a steady flow, but before you scream that at a minimum it's 15 times the viscosity, I'll say it now, NO you don't need 15 pumps worth to pull that liquid a single D5 per block SHOULD be ok. Next and for now last is 99% isopropyl alcohol With a specific heat of 0,6 kcal/kg, a viscosity of ~2cP@20ºc or ~1.6cP@40ºC, this is the fun part, Isopropanol has a boiling point of 80ºC@1atm, so theoretically he should vaporize with a random AMD'esque spike, pulling even more heat with his latent energy and even more heat if he becomes a gas since his specific heat is even smaller when in gas form, but there are many problems with isopropanol, main one being that he tends to vaporize in ambient temperature something that requires a whole post just how to deal with that. But now for the elephant in the room, that I haven't addressed, seals and o-rings, in short, I'll make a general rule for exotic liquids: EPDM (the usual run of the mill rubber seal): Water, acids and Ketones, grade A, against every other compound, DON'T TRY IT. NBR: A monster of a rubber, he's resistant against most forms of chemical attack, and he's made for oil like substances, just get ketones away from him. Some other words of advice, All acids will corrode all metal parts in the loop, and mineral oil will break apart PETG, Acrylic is fine for mineral oil, but I wouldn't recommend it for Isopropyl, it tends to stain and bloat, if you truly want a mad scientist closed loop I'd recommend glass tubing. The main thing I'd wanted to clear up was those god-awful "facts" about the properties of mineral oil, But do feel free to post crazy cooling solutions like vodka, or orange juice cooling.

So, I have some old dell dimension 4700s, at least I think that's what they are, and I was wondering it I could take the cpu throw in a micro Atx or mini itx motherboard and throw a modified lava lamp on it for cooling. I have some copper left over from when I got a new roof and I think that I could replace the bottom of the lava lamp with a copper plate and just have the computer run a constant stress test. Is this in anyway possible, if it is how could I better my idea?

Hey there oc enthusiasts, I know there are some of you out there that manage to run your PC under sub-zero daily using an AC-chilled water. I am in the process of planning a similar project, but I just need to know a couple of things. First a couple of things to note - I plan on cooling an i9-9900K and a "worst case scenario" - 400-500W GPU (assume some next gen power-hungry Ampere/RDNA GPU). So the question is - in terms of "BTU" (British Thermal Unit) - what do you think would suffice? I saw a couple of guys on overclock.net do x2 10 000BTUs and 20K. A friend of mine recommended 24K. I've been looking for 2nd hand ACs but I am really unsure what would suffice. I am not really sure what AC Timmy Joe is using here. I think perhaps a PMP600 from Koolance will be good enough pump for this use. Afterall it's an industrial pump... Now as far as how am I gonna tackle the condensation (since water + electricity = bad).... Put my PC in a 2nd sealed box, and put Reusable Silica Gel Humidity Moisture Absorber Beads around the MB. And for activating them - 5min in the Microwave is all that's needed. https://images.app.goo.gl/Je5jYVf6F3UtDsRd9

So i came across this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/WAFFER-PC-AIRCON-PAC-400-PC-AIR-CONDITIONER-/250293315393 it is a working MINI-AC unit that slides into a DVD/blu-ray/expansion front port of your computer case.i bought one a wile ago. And it runs the computer quite well. it seams to run better with Motherboards that have their CPU ro the upper right, rather then upper left. if not, then it works fine as a RAM cooler and board chiller. I have noticed a drop in temperature with my set-up by only about 4*F. But my fan set-up isnt optimal. SO it can probably work much much better. The unit has 3 options, off, Fan, and AC. Fan is just normal air intake. and AC is air intake and chilling mechanism. when the unit is on for a wile you can hover your hand over the unit or below it and feel that the unit IS producing colder air. (not too cold, but colder then room temp). I dont have the equipment to run proper tests. Can someone do it?

I'm doing a project for school about immersion cooling. ive cut a deal with 3M and they are willing to give me some liquid. now im just wondering if there's a decent case around thats easily transformed into a airtight computer and can fit an atx and gpu inside. Would be much appreciated if you could send me some tips or info for helping my project.

Hello! I recently saw a video on Youtube about a Thermoelectric generator and I immediately that these thermoelectric-units would be an interesting way to cool your processors. I'm just sharing my thought here because some may be interested or want to try it themselves. I did my research and found out that, of course, I'm not the first one with this kind of idea, but all the builds that I found were kind of to unprofessional or to unrealistic with modern expensive computer hardware. For the people who want it short there are images of my planes attached and here is also a link to the realtimeboard page, they are pretty self-explanatory. For the people who want to know bit more about what I'm thinking: These Thermoelectric-units are basically heat-pumps, which when you apply power heat up one side and cool the other one. They are pretty cheap (2$-20$/unit) but the more you are willing to pay the better the efficiency of the units will be. The danger of these Thermoelectric-units are that they create extreme temperatures. That means you can either fry your processor because of the heat or short out your motherboard because of condensation if you are not careful enough. I've seen people use Vaseline to secure their motherboard from the condensation water and use massive heatsinks to cool the unit, but I think that's not save enough if you consider the prices of some CPU's. So I've thought that it would be the best to move the Thermoelectric-unit away from the CPU, so the unit doesn't cool the CPU but the water which cools the CPU. Because it's hard for me to explain my detailed thoughts in a non-native language I've made the pictures below to explain it. Such a build would of course be highly inefficient and quite some effort to properly build but I thought I nevertheless share my concept. In addition if you don't want it to cool your CPU you could use it as a generator to charge devices. I might be building a cheap prototype for myself in the near future, which I will then share. Greetings, Markus.

Hi I was wondering if this is still possible with a 970/80 etc. and or if there is any other way to build a PC that silent. How hard it is to build doesn't really matter since I am quite experienced with building stuff.

Hey, My name is deef,and I am taking an engineering class about designing and building an innovation or invention. For myself, I am planing on doing something on water cooling, but as part of the class, I need to conduct a survey. as the survey is all about computer hardware, I thought it best to ask the Linus Tech Tips for your help. Thanks https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k2Sq2d1X_tJwyQR0C2heuyXVrlj-SCUfpZhnZm4osz0/viewform?usp=send_form