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So I'm interested in liquid cooling my pc. When I originally built it I put a 100vi? Corsair cpu cooler. It works well but I was thinking I wanted to liquid cool my gpu and try building my own loop.

 

So I had some shower thoughts, could you build a loop using your house plumbing? Since water from the street is cooler and it wouldn't be a closed loop(unless you wanted it to be). Now I understand that you would have to rework plumbing, but my office is right beside my wash room. So id only have to rip up like 1 sheet of dry wall so 4x8' total. Plus the bathroom needs some work anyways. Has this been done before? Let me know your thoughts.

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that is such a terrible idea

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The water would be completely wasted when it leaves the system into the drain. That's a dumb idea. You'd pay for so much water that way. 

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1 minute ago, Tech Talk-Real Talk said:

This sounds like something Linus would make a video about....

He did do the whole room water cooling which pretty much didn't work that well. 

 

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I mean... you could wireplumb it in before the bathroom sinker something I guess.... but unless you just left the sink running constantly you would have zero flow rate. 

 

Rather wasteful even leaving aside the ridiculous risk level for the system.

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Maintenance would be a pain also with a cooling system like this.

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17 minutes ago, Violentsquirt said:

So I'm interested in liquid cooling my pc. When I originally built it I put a 100vi? Corsair cpu cooler. It works well but I was thinking I wanted to liquid cool my gpu and try building my own loop.

 

So I had some shower thoughts, could you build a loop using your house plumbing? Since water from the street is cooler and it wouldn't be a closed loop(unless you wanted it to be). Now I understand that you would have to rework plumbing, but my office is right beside my wash room. So id only have to rip up like 1 sheet of dry wall so 4x8' total. Plus the bathroom needs some work anyways. Has this been done before? Let me know your thoughts.

The water from the tap still has contaminates such as minerals and bacteria that can affect the loop. It's not recommended to run straight tap water and it would use a lot of water since it would need to be on the whole time the system is on. 

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3 minutes ago, W-L said:

The water from the tap still has contaminates such as minerals and bacteria that can affect the loop. It's not recommended to run straight tap water and it would use a lot of water since it would need to be on the whole time the system is on. 

To be fair, I did at one stage contemplate doing a similar thing however we were on tank water in a new house which was heavily filtered and in theory, I could make it its own closed loop by dumping it back into the tank. 

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Just now, Windspeed36 said:

To be fair, I did at one stage contemplate doing a similar thing however we were on tank water in a new house which was heavily filtered and in theory, I could make it its own closed loop by dumping it back into the tank. 

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Probably possible if it was very well kept wouldn't want stuff getting back into the house water that you drink. 

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9 minutes ago, W-L said:

Probably possible if it was very well kept wouldn't want stuff getting back into the house water that you drink. 

That was my main concern: the minerals in the return

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9 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

To be fair, I did at one stage contemplate doing a similar thing however we were on tank water in a new house which was heavily filtered and in theory, I could make it its own closed loop by dumping it back into the tank. 

Jesus H. and is this the same tank water you and your Family would be showering, cooking and drinking from????

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9 hours ago, Violentsquirt said:

So I'm interested in liquid cooling my pc. When I originally built it I put a 100vi? Corsair cpu cooler. It works well but I was thinking I wanted to liquid cool my gpu and try building my own loop.

 

So I had some shower thoughts, could you build a loop using your house plumbing? Since water from the street is cooler and it wouldn't be a closed loop(unless you wanted it to be). Now I understand that you would have to rework plumbing, but my office is right beside my wash room. So id only have to rip up like 1 sheet of dry wall so 4x8' total. Plus the bathroom needs some work anyways. Has this been done before? Let me know your thoughts.

How do you plan to deal with the condensation on and around your waterblocks? Now you can do something very similar to this idea but with a the radiators hanging outside your house, in a cool place of course but there would still be condensation if your outside ambient is way lower than your inside ambient.

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The first thing that comes to my mind is... waste of money. Water needs to be flowing constantly, so it would go to drain whole day.

 

I know a guy who accidentaly left micro-drip-system working in his garden for two weeks (while he was on vacation)

The bill for water usage was like 2000 PLN for this month (for comparison "normal" bill looks like 30 PLN per month)

And this micro drip system works like - slowly dripping drops of water to the ground through tiny holes to water the plants.

 

And You are talking about constant drain of huge anmount of water. Well say goodbye to Your precious $$ :D

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Threadwide TLDR: No don't do it

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It would work, but would waste a LOT of water for a couple of degrees lower temps. Also, any particles in the water can clog the waterblocks over time. If you choose to do this, you should install a filter to catch particles.

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12 hours ago, Leonard said:

Jesus H. and is this the same tank water you and your Family would be showering, cooking and drinking from????

Not necessarily - we had like 9 tanks. Didn't end up doing it though

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