River water cooling

[MartinKweh]

My cousin lives near a river and wanted to experiment if adding a water from the river pass through a filter and pump then through the water block on the CPU then out the river again makes the best silent cooler since its outside the house. im laughing at the thought but then, fresh cool water that doesn't heat up might be a good idea.

[Flying Sausages]

Germs, Bacteria, virus, disease:

 

[Tristerin]

Anything is possible - but the logistics do not make sense vs the results.  Which you can achieve without all of that (better temps, silent) DIY

[MartinKweh]

welp, he said it will just be an experiment. ill update here on what he does.

[Jurrunio]

That's how you get enough bacterial growth for an aquarium in your PC.

[Catsrules]

Microsoft is working on it already.

 

 

I am not sure how well your pump would work. River water isn't exactly clean, your probably going to get the block and tubing all clogged with crap. You better off with just a massive heat sync or something you can submerge in the water.

[MartinKweh]

15 hours ago, Catsrules said:

Microsoft is working on it already.

 

 

I am not sure how well your pump would work. River water isn't exactly clean, your probably going to get the block and tubing all clogged with crap. You better off with just a massive heat sync or something you can submerge in the water.

Oh cool. though he said he will use filters for it(the ones that used to make potable water) though idk how he will do it. 

[Mick Naughty]

Why not just connect it to the sink faucet? 

[MartinKweh]

15 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Why not just connect it to the sink faucet? 

shrugs. idk what he's thinking. 

[Flying Sausages]

15 minutes ago, Martin2132 said:

shrugs. idk what he's thinking. 

His watercooling solution and his computer are going to be like

 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, OlympicAssEater said:

Germs, Bacteria, virus, disease:

 

Algae.  You forgot algae. Also if the water is hard there will be buildup.  So very not worth it. 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Martin2132 said:

Oh cool. though he said he will use filters for it(the ones that used to make potable water) though idk how he will do it. 

Potable won’t cut it.  There’s water hardness and particulate for one.  Of many.

 

if there’s no other way to stop the madness maybe you can talk him into using a water to water heat exchanger.  He just wants the river temps.  He doesn’t need the actual river water. A water to water heat exchanger in the river would keep the radiator fluid separate from the living stuff.  Maybe an old cast iron radiator sitting in the river.  It’s still crazy of course.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

river cool ? if the crime /theft rate is low

[MartinKweh]

15 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Potable won’t cut it.  There’s water hardness and particulate for one.  Of many.

 

if there’s no other way to stop the madness maybe you can talk him into using a water to water heat exchanger.  He just wants the river temps.  He doesn’t need the actual river water. A water to water heat exchanger in the river would keep the radiator fluid separate from the living stuff.  Maybe an old cast iron radiator sitting in the river.  It’s still crazy of course.

ye, ill suggest that.  

[Shadow_Storm56]

On 11/11/2019 at 11:01 PM, Martin2132 said:

My cousin lives near a river and wanted to experiment if adding a water from the river pass through a filter and pump then through the water block on the CPU then out the river again makes the best silent cooler since its outside the house. im laughing at the thought but then, fresh cool water that doesn't heat up might be a good idea.

Use a heat exchanger and 2 loops so that you can have proper coolant going through the PC

[AnonymousGuy]

1 hour ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Use a heat exchanger and 2 loops so that you can have proper coolant going through the PC

This is the correct answer.  Forever and always if you want to do some crazy shit, use a heat exchanger.  It keeps the desktop side clean and makes it so the "dirty" side can be tap water, 1HP pump, whatever.  I have 3 heat ex changers running in my house, they're relatively cheap to buy off ebay but you lose some $ adapting 1" NPT to smaller dimensions.  Linus's whole room watercooling wouldn't have been such a huge failure if he used heat exchangers amongst other things.

 

You can also dunk a radiator in whatever body of water but the housing is usually steel and will rust eventually.

 

In any case, watch out for sub-ambient water temperatures and the dew point.

[Shadow_Storm56]

18 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

This is the correct answer.  Forever and always if you want to do some crazy shit, use a heat exchanger.  It keeps the desktop side clean and makes it so the "dirty" side can be tap water, 1HP pump, whatever.  I have 3 heat ex changers running in my house, they're relatively cheap to buy off ebay but you lose some $ adapting 1" NPT to smaller dimensions.  Linus's whole room watercooling wouldn't have been such a huge failure if he used heat exchangers amongst other things.

 

You can also dunk a radiator in whatever body of water but the housing is usually steel and will rust eventually.

 

In any case, watch out for sub-ambient water temperatures and the dew point.

Yea the one I got was pretty cheap, I have 3 computers on one big loop that goes out on my roof to a quad radiator. Well 2 of them are essentially server machines but still. I did it for two reasons which was I have a small rad on each loop so if one pump fails I only would have a shut down of half the computers and plus the server loop was all stable and I did not want to mix so many blocks In one loop. A heat exchanger has very good thermal transfer so it will work fine there and then you don't need filters or anything as the water can be a bit dirty on the one side of the system. I really like this idea of a way of cooling but make sure there is still some case airflow and make sure you don't get it too cold and then condensation kills your build. Also I agree if linus had used a small heat exchanger for each connection on his whole room water cooling thing it would have worked better especially considering each pc had it's own pump anyway. Plus he could have left the single rad on each PC connected on the return side of the loop and if the main loop failed it would not interrupt anything. I always loved that video and I think lots of people have done smaller successful versions since then.

 

I should have quoted the original poster to but I guess he will see it anyway.