LTT watercooling project

[Bsmith]

Hello,

 

recently Linus talked about a project they are engaging to watercool all the PCs in their office, by attaching them to a huge cooling set up wich leads the heat away form the office room and goes to the outside of the house where the liquid is cooleddown with rads and fans so that the heat doesn't stay inside.

This being a huge task wich requires running loops through the house and it's construction is far form easy.

So let's get creative and brainstorm possibilities, do's and dont's, suggestions on materials, cooling blocks, rads etc etc.

 

 

idea so far:

run watercooling through the house to the outside, to keep the rooms cool and put a system in it wich allows for disconnection and reconnecting the systems without having to deal with big spills and leaks.

 

 

material list:

 

list of supplies, will be updated as soon there is more confirmed info, if it has "(?)" behind the name it isn't completely sure.

GPUs:

GTX titan black, sponsored by Nvidea temselves.

 

rad fans:

noctua's(not sure wich exactly), sponsored by noctua.

 

rads:

????

 

CPUs:

intel i7 extreme editions(?)

 

mobo:

???, probarlly what is in their systems right now.

 

case:

???, probarlly what they have right now.

 

CPU coolingblocks:

???

 

GPU coolingblocks:

???

 

coolingliquid:

???

 

systemtubing:

???

 

mainroute tubing:

???

 

systempumps:

???

 

mainpump:

???

 

fittings:

???

 

community suggested items(only non confirmed ones)

coolingblocks(gpu and cpu)

 

pumps

 

tubing

 

liquid

 

rads

 

fittings

 

 

Comunnity idea/suggestion list.

 

my idea:

My idea is too mount the mainroute tubing on the upperwall, I would recommand a sturdy and thick tube of industrial quality, wich is able to contain high amounts of water and preassure. Along with a quick release system(as found on pipelines) to for come spilling and leaks when dismounting a system.

It would also be usefull to mount a few quick release's on the mainline as fail-safe system, incase a certain place in the tube breaks, by pulling the quickrelease they could block the incoming fluid quickly and shutdown the pump, without spilling to much and risking the fact that they flood the office.

 

To come back on the tubing, I would go for hard tubing on the mainline since this is more sturdy and flexible tubes would recquire a constant strain on them, along with the fact that when they burst due to sudden preasure drop/raise, there would be cooling fluid going everywhere, while with hard tubing it would only leak out at the point it breaks since the tube stay at their place.

 

for tubing inside the systems I would take softtubing, wich allows for easier acces of components incase in failure or other errors, I would suggest the quickrelease as the point where it goes form hardtube into softtube.

 

for rads i would go for nemesis gtx rads wich are pretty expensive but according to the spec list very good with a high fpi(fins per inch) wich increases the performance.

on the fact of pumps, coolingblocks im completely hopeless, since i don't see any diffrence. :blush:

 

For the liquid I think they are going for normal distilled water, altough I heard that Mayhem has some interesting options when it comes to kinds of distilled water.

 

I would also suggest to add a flow meter inside the system wich allows for checking the flow inside a system, maybe on to on each "branch" of the mainine, so that trouble shooting could be easier along the lines.

 

[Daniel Fries]

Where are they on this?

[Pugs501]

I think this would go under Build Logs

[Bsmith]

Where are they on this?

 

so far i know they are already finished(this topic was made when they barely announced it, sadly it failed)

 

I think this would go under Build Logs

 

i was thinking of that too, but since it was a  (failed) effort to help them with planning materials etc i poked it here.