Water-cooling? Fuck that, we're using snow-cooling

[mr cheese]

I wasn't able to get my 5900X to 4.8GHz all-core stable without getting some extra cooling to my EVGA CLC 280 with NH-A14s so after this recent snow I decided to get myself a nice snow container and pull snow-cooled air through my radiator!

 

Managed to finally hit 1.412V on the CPU and keep sub-85° throughout a full Cinebench R23 run (pulling 190-200W!!!)

 

I'm surprised this even worked at all, I'm going to keep trying different fan orientations and setups and let you know how I do thermally! May even push 4.85GHz or 4.9GHz R23 results on the first run in the pictures setup managed a score of 24123

 

[Jumballi]

Very cool, pun intended.
My only worry with your set up is that the water in the loop could potentially freeze. Unlikely but still a possibility.

[mr cheese]

1 minute ago, Jumballi said:

Very cool, pun intended.
My only worry with your set up is that the water in the loop could potentially freeze. Unlikely but still a possibility.

Yes, I'm making sure it won't freeze, but even then my clc is still reaching 81C no problem, currently trying 1.512V at 4.9GHz all core lets see what happens

[Mling]

I always wondered what is stopping someone from connecting a second rad and dropping that into a large volume of snow/outdoors chilled water. What is stopping me is it doesnt snow in the Waikato and when it gets cold i can improve performance just by openning the window. If it's so cold where you are that you can't do that then run some pipes outdoors!

[LogicalDrm]

The concern here, and with every other situation where you are using sub-room temp cooling solution, is condensation. Do you feel/see if the pipes here are getting wet? Like if you try to wipe them with soft paper, does it get damp?

[mr cheese]

6 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

The concern here, and with every other situation where you are using sub-room temp cooling solution, is condensation. Do you feel/see if the pipes here are getting wet? Like if you try to wipe them with soft paper, does it get damp?

My tubes are insulated with a sleeving that's enough to keep it cool. Thankfully my room is low humidity, and after a few mere seconds at 4.8GHz my coolant shoots up to 70° and climbing

[LogicalDrm]

4 minutes ago, DaJakerBoss said:

My tubes are insulated with a sleeving that's enough to keep it cool. Thankfully my room is low humidity, and after a few mere seconds at 4.8GHz my coolant shoots up to 70° and climbing

Not really answering my question. You are using standard Noctua fans, not iPPC which would be more optimal since they have IP rating (dust and moist IIRC). The place where you hot coolant and cold snow meets is at rad, so that would be main place for condensation to occur. Considering you are melting snow also. The insulation part, probably short term works. But depends on actual material if its effective or not. So I take you haven't used any towel to see if there's noticeable amounts of condensation.