Additional External Cooling Loop Questions

[ChrisLoudon]

Hi guys,

 

I'm thinking about adding an additional loop external to my case with the help of some quick disconnects and would like to ask the following:

 

1. Does anyone know of valves for PC water cooling other than the usual ball valves? Since I move my PC around from time to time I would like a way of redirecting the flow when not connected to the external loop. Ball valves are all I could find so I would require 3 of them which seems a bit clunky. Really just looing for something like a manifold but with directable flow valves between ports. Think of a capital H (on its side). The 2 long sides are the flow and return when open with the small line (in the middle) shut off. When disconnected from the external loop the flow and return are shut off at the far end with the middle bit open allowing the fluid to flow on the internal loop only.

 

2. If I decided to fit a second pump / res unit, would there be any conflict with having 2 pumps running simultaneously OR if I had one of the pumps turned off, would the fluid meet extra resistance?

 

3. Has anyone here done this as well? You're input would be welcome.

 

4. Am I mad?

 

Cheers

 

C

 

 

[jaslion]

Just get an alphacool standalone external radiator kit.

 

Literally has all this built in a tower that looks like one of those long fans

[thrasher_565]

5 hours ago, ChrisLoudon said:

Hi guys,

 

I'm thinking about adding an additional loop external to my case with the help of some quick disconnects and would like to ask the following:

 

1. Does anyone know of valves for PC water cooling other than the usual ball valves? Since I move my PC around from time to time I would like a way of redirecting the flow when not connected to the external loop. Ball valves are all I could find so I would require 3 of them which seems a bit clunky. Really just looing for something like a manifold but with directable flow valves between ports. Think of a capital H (on its side). The 2 long sides are the flow and return when open with the small line (in the middle) shut off. When disconnected from the external loop the flow and return are shut off at the far end with the middle bit open allowing the fluid to flow on the internal loop only.

 

2. If I decided to fit a second pump / res unit, would there be any conflict with having 2 pumps running simultaneously OR if I had one of the pumps turned off, would the fluid meet extra resistance?

 

3. Has anyone here done this as well? You're input would be welcome.

 

4. Am I mad?

 

Cheers

 

C

 

 

there one guy @Luggage on here that dose just that but with ball valves. he be the best person to ask. there another person that has insane amount of rads and is like 5c above ambient thow its a 2080ti i think... still 

 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by thrasher_565

[ChrisLoudon]

21 hours ago, jaslion said:

Just get an alphacool standalone external radiator kit.

 

Literally has all this built in a tower that looks like one of those long fans

Yeh, considered that but I have limited space which is kinda the problem really.

 

The PC sits in an under desk recess and while the 2 x 240mm rads that are in the 280x at the moment work fine in open air, everything starts to choke as soon as I pop the case back into its little hole.

 

The other consideration I had was to get my long masonry drill bit out and go straight out the side wall and have a rad fitted outside. its a straight run so not actually that difficult.

[jaslion]

3 hours ago, ChrisLoudon said:

Yeh, considered that but I have limited space which is kinda the problem really.

 

The PC sits in an under desk recess and while the 2 x 240mm rads that are in the 280x at the moment work fine in open air, everything starts to choke as soon as I pop the case back into its little hole.

 

The other consideration I had was to get my long masonry drill bit out and go straight out the side wall and have a rad fitted outside. its a straight run so not actually that difficult.

I mean yeah the easy fix is quite literallychange the structure of the desk so it doesnt chocke the computer

[Lobstar]

I have this 'remote' cooling stack which is an old PSU running 2x D5s and many fans. I have Koolance quick disconnects at basically every waterblock across both computers on this loop (2x GPU, 2x CPU, sometimes a RAM block). I also have the same 2x D5 pump block on my gaming PC across the room. The pumps all run at 100%. It won't hurt the pumps. I have a pressure release valve on my reservoir in case of gas pressure since there are so many failure points on this loop.

 

Oh, and to solve the PC being removed from the external loop simplify it by just using quick disconnects and buying one more set create a return line from the outlet on the PC right back to the inlet.