Whole Room Water Cooling Part 2

[Nico123473]

Sponsored by: Home Depot 

[Rorossi]

what are the fan's used on the rads?

[Borjita3]

what are the fan's used on the rads?

Noctua Industrial PPC

[NumLock21]

Even if the fans are Industrial PPC. It would still be better off if it was protected by the elements. Maybe a metal ventilated cover similar to those air conditioning units will do?

[PotatOS - Andrew]

Sweet jesus my eyeballs are ready for this!

[SirSquid]

Some people put 2 loops in their system because they think it will help

Linus is not most people.

[xkronusx]

This is the coolest project I've seen in a while.

 

But I got some questions, mainly to do with the outside portion of the loop.

 

You're Canadian lol, we get the fun winters and the summers get hot enough to create changes, so for the outside part of the loop

how are you guys going to control the rapid freezing and heating during season changes. Also when you move to the new building how are you

going to handle the move for the loop? Will it be taken apart? Will it be moved to the new place?

 

This is one of those awesome new ideas where there is not much knowledge because it hasn't been done before, or at least not recent enough

or with as much documentation. Love to see the progress.  

[EricX2]

Linus' pronunciation of "decal" threw me for a loop until I saw them and now I'm questioning what the correct pronunciation is.

 

Edit: Turns out it's pronounced differently in Canada.

That was driving me crazy... but you're right. 

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decal

\ˈdē-ˌkal, di-ˈkal; Canada usually ˈde-kəl\

[unijab]

You could of gotten a large automotive radiator for much cheaper than all those 480s

[wrath]

You guys did a great job

cant w8 for the next episode

[ShadowCaptain]

Linus came up with a bit of a crazy idea... 

 

Referring to yourself in 3rd person?

 

narcissistic much haha

[cyberdork]

I wonder what kind of benchmarks they are going to perform. I still haven't heard anything about a diagram of the layout. If the loop is super simple and goes from computer A to computer B, and so on, I can't imagine temperatures on the last computer are going to be anywhere near acceptable with computers under load. I WANT TO SEE A LAYOUT DIAGRAM!

[jasonwd]

+1 for the Automotive radiator and fans. It would be way cheaper (if not sponsored) and built for harsh environments.

[cyberdork]

+1 for the Automotive radiator and fans. It would be way cheaper (if not sponsored) and built for harsh environments.

Unfortunately I cannot link it since I am at work, but there is a video on youtube where someone has already attempted this. I cannot remember the reasoning but it did not work and if I recall, actually had worse results than a PC water cooling kit. It wasn't the most professional test but then again when you're attaching a car radiator to a computer, you're kind of "ghetto rigging" things regardless.

[nicklmg]

linus you should also post music source links below the video

They're in the video description.

[Qub3d]

@LinusTech, please fix the OP for night mode. Thanks!

[narrdarr]

this is really cool project.

 

the only thing is; in pt.1 linus talks alittle bit about lack of efficiency when systems are underload. this could be easily address by adding in a water bong cooler in to the loop. water cooler bongs do a way better job of getting rid of the heat. he could probable ditch the rads all together. the only down side to a water bong cooler is you have to add water/coolant to it periodically.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Thanks LMG team..

[Wirerat]

its so much easier to drill a hole if you start out with a pilot hole with a 40 or 30(1/8) bit.

[Takata]

A few possible reasons for not using a car radiator:

- It was intended to run at a higher temperature, so maybe it will be less effective at transferring heat than the computer radiators.

- It was intended to run with an aluminium (probably?) engine block, so you may get a bad reaction somewhere when you use it with copper/nickel waterblocks and copper pipes.

- It was intended to run with a mix of water (for heat capacity), glycol (for freezing point depression) and anti-corrosion additives. Without the anti-corrosion additives, the car radiator may corrode. With the additives, a bad reaction with the waterblocks _may_ occur (I really don't know).

 

Better to use the safer, but more expensive, computer radiators rather than gambling 5 computers worth of waterblocks and pipes on an untried component.

 

 

Hopefully they make a Q/A video like they did for the mineral oil pc.

[nasses321]

It's looking good! But it got me thinking, what will you do when winter comes? Add glycol?

[Inb4uall]

Why hasn't somewhere like Disney thought of this!? Or Google? Like those servers! You could water cool all of them and even heat a local housing estate with the water! The things you can do are endless (ok... there are a finite number but you get the basics right?)!

They do use the heat from super computers to do stuff.

[Wayne Geissinger]

Anyone know when the next one comes out? looked every day since I watched this one. lol

[Jimbillroo Digital]

well isnt this whole room water cooling useless anayways since they will move to the new office?

 

The Whole Room Water Cooling project was filmed a while ago, they just didn't upload it until now. It was also an excuse to make an interesting series of videos so that more people will watch their videos. The members of the Linus Media Group think it's cool and Linus has already brought something to make the pipes shinier. Also, it will not be hard to implement the whole room water cooling into a new building as they have gained experience from doing it in their current building and they can reuse some of the parts from their current building in the new building.

 

Don't get me wrong - all of that is really cool but what I don't understand is why you guys are doing all of this when you plan on moving into another office. I mean that watercooling setup isn't exactly movable with the hard installed pipes and all. So the whole thing doesn't make that much sense to me at this point.

 

The Whole Room Water Cooling project was filmed a while ago, they just didn't upload it until now. It was also an excuse to make an interesting series of videos so that more people will watch their videos. The members of the Linus Media Group think it's cool and Linus has already brought something to make the pipes shinier. Also, it will not be hard to implement the whole room water cooling into a new building as they have gained experience from doing it in their current building and they can reuse some of the parts from their current building in the new building.

[FatalityDiablo]

The Whole Room Water Cooling project was filmed a while ago, they just didn't upload it until now. It was also an excuse to make an interesting series of videos so that more people will watch their videos. The members of the Linus Media Group think it's cool and Linus has already brought something to make the pipes shinier. Also, it will not be hard to implement the whole room water cooling into a new building as they have gained experience from doing it in their current building and they can reuse some of the parts from their current building in the new building.

 

 

The Whole Room Water Cooling project was filmed a while ago, they just didn't upload it until now. It was also an excuse to make an interesting series of videos so that more people will watch their videos. The members of the Linus Media Group think it's cool and Linus has already brought something to make the pipes shinier. Also, it will not be hard to implement the whole room water cooling into a new building as they have gained experience from doing it in their current building and they can reuse some of the parts from their current building in the new building.