Multi - PC Watercooling

[Sam Palmer]

Hello Linus form members

 

I had an idea to create a multi PC loop, kindda like linus water cooled room idea. I wanna have a station of PC's on a shop work bench. But behind or on a shelf have a custom built tank that holds the water. I want nothing but pipes in the three or so PCs and a external RAD array to cool this massive loop. I need ideas on how this loop would go. The cases I would use are gaming cases with fixed hard tubing. Since no RAD's or any other equipment will be inside the PC i was thinking the new NZXT type case. I was thinking the hard tubing enters and exits through the back of the cases, connects to the RAD array and tank, having pumps at the back of each PC to keep a high flow loop. Would I need to connect to a RAD when exiting the PC for best performance? If there is such thing as taps the connect to the tubing to turn the loop off for individual PCs that could be cool if I want to move the PCs around. Any thoughts would be super Im in the process of drawing stuff up, if i ever get enough it would be awesome to do.

 

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Clear tubing like this:

 

 

 

 

NZXT cases: 

 

[Enderman]

That would cost around $10-20k

[Sam Palmer]

That would cost around $10-20k

 

Im not planing for a budget version haha, as much as it is whatever. It would be cool to have

[Tam3n]

Well I think you would want a flexible pieces of tubing with fast couplings to connect each PC to the loop. Depending on the number of PCs and whether you need to cool high end graphics cards, you probably are fine with the water going through all of the PCs before going to the rads, but you should have a decent flow rate for this.  If you are only cooling cpus and the PCs are not very far away from each other, I don't think you need to add a pump next to every PC, maybe for every third.

[Sam Palmer]

Well I think you would want a flexible pieces of tubing with fast couplings to connect each PC to the loop. Depending on the number of PCs and whether you need to cool high end graphics cards, you probably are fine with the water going through all of the PCs before going to the rads, but you should have a decent flow rate for this.  If you are only cooling cpus and the PCs are not very far away from each other, I don't think you need to add a pump next to every PC, maybe for every third.

 

Yeah I am think CPU and GPU cooling, I have this on my PC and it works really well, and i'm thinking 780's all the way to titans, lets just say the extreme so titan z's. Because of course, this is all an idea

[DigitalHermit]

You can try an external rad array with water circulating over them (watercooled watercooling) like a fountain of sorts...

[thorpj]

Yeah I am think CPU and GPU cooling, I have this on my PC and it works really well, and i'm thinking 780's all the way to titans, lets just say the extreme so titan z's. Because of course, this is all an idea

Make sure you have a way to drain the loop. As Jayz2cents says, the amount of people that don't think that far ahead.