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Why do people keep saying this? I have no doubt of his plumbing expertise. Balancing a multi-radiator system is a furnace installer's job. I have simply stated that from vague pictures that it seems to have little control and insulation. Great, he's a plumber, now address the concerns I and others have listed.

 

You mean help you hate on an idea that hasn't even been realized yet? How bout you wait and see till the project is done and if it's still 'terribly designed' as you put it, then we can have a discussion..

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Personally, the whole project sounds like its more trouble than its worth.

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Why do people keep saying this? I have no doubt of his plumbing expertise. Balancing a multi-radiator system is a furnace installer's job. I have simply stated that from vague pictures that it seems to have little control and insulation. Great, he's a plumber, now address the concerns I and others have listed.

Insulation?? The idea I to get rid of heat not keep it in. So why would you have it insulated? Exposed copper with ambient air flow can help reduce the heat in the system over the length of the pipe.

As for freezing water, thermal shock etc, LN2 is use with extreme Over clocking with internal core temps well into the minuses. Don't think 0 or a few minus degrees will hurt a cpu. May be they'll use some kind of anti freeze in the system during winter?? Who knows. Personally

I have seen another post some in this thread about pressure regulators, why? There is no need for pressure regulators. The highest pressure they may have in this system will around 5 maybe 10 psi max. Any more than that, fittings inside the computer will start blowing off. So why pressure regs? There won't be enough pressure to regulate.

I think this idea is awesome. Kudos to them for going ahead with it.

I'd love to this to my systems at home but just don't have the money for the plumbing.

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Insulation?? The idea I to get rid of heat not keep it in. So why would you have it insulated? Exposed copper with ambient air flow can help reduce the heat in the system over the length of the pipe.

 

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I have seen another post some in this thread about pressure regulators, why? There is no need for pressure regulators. The highest pressure they may have in this system will around 5 maybe 10 psi max. Any more than that, fittings inside the computer will start blowing off. So why pressure regs? There won't be enough pressure to regulate.

 

Yes, insulation. The issue they were having was not with machines overheating, it was with the room overheating. They want the heat outside. So insulating the interior pipe keeps the heat out of the room...                    ...Insulation.

 

Regulators are not for stepping down the pressure on the system, they are for regulating the amount of water going to a given machine so that they all get equal water flow from the loop. Imagine if the first machine in the loop has a single water block and the one at the end had a triple.

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Sorry if i'm asking a question that someone has asked before, but what is linus planning to do with the 'Whole Room Watercooling'? 

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Watercool all the computers in the room to reduce noise level and heat levels.

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He's done it essentially so he doesn't have to buy air conditioning :P

 

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Think he's also done it simply because he can.

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I think he's going to install water blocks on everybody's CPU and GPU, and connect them all to the same custom water cooling loop (I think there's 5 PCs in the loop), and they're gonna run the tubing outside to a giant radiator so the heat doesn't have to be expelled inside the house. That's what I assume anyways

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basically its a custom loop with all computer on it, and the rads are mounted outside the house. basically he made the house his case

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basically its a custom loop with all computer on it, and the rads are mounted outside the house. basically he made the house his case

Who lives in a Canada in a giant PC?

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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Who lives in a Canada in a giant PC?

 

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Anyway will be interesting to see how they do it to be honest. 

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Who lives in a Canada in a giant PC?

Linus! Linus! Linus Sebastian! Hahaha :P 

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He does it so i doesn't have to bay aircondition.

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Sorry if i'm asking a question that someone has asked before, but what is linus planning to do with the 'Whole Room Watercooling'?

Why don't you ask the man himself?

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Sorry if i'm asking a question that someone has asked before, but what is linus planning to do with the 'Whole Room Watercooling'? 

Every computer in the room is set up for external watercooling

The computers will be linked up to large radiators hanging off the roof of the house, outside, where it's cool (especially in the winter) and back into the house, and into the PCs.

There's probably a large reservoir somewhere in the house. 

 

He's doing it due to the massive amounts of heat that the PCs are producing, seeing as they produce videos and overclock all their components.

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Who lives in a Canada in a giant PC?

Linus Tech Tips

 

Anyway will be interesting to see how they do it to be honest.

The worrying thing I've just seen is that it does match the sopngebob theme...

And OP it's so Mr. Sebastian doesn't have to bow to his employees wishes for air conditioning and instead gets to have some fun with PCs.

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As far as I know, the concept is as follows: connecting multiple PC's to a radiator external to the building however the main issue he'll face is sub zero temperatures during winter. 

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As far as I know, the concept is as follows: connecting multiple PC's to a radiator external to the building however the main issue he'll face is sub zero temperatures during winter. 

Just put antifreeze in the coolant. It has worked for cars for over a hundred years.

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Just put antifreeze in the coolant. It has worked for cars for over a hundred years.

That won't be the issue, it'll be the condensation when the cold liquid enters the room.

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The worrying thing I've just seen is that it does match the sopngebob theme...

It's supposed to :D 

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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That won't be the issue, it'll be the condensation when the cold liquid enters the room.

A thick plastic box with insulation that the radiator is housed in will solve that.  Something as simple as a fan controlled by a arduino that is reading a thermoresistor to ensure the insulated box doesnt get too cold.

 

The idea of dumping heat outside during the winter sounds pretty dumb anyway.

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That won't be the issue, it'll be the condensation when the cold liquid enters the room.

he plans to address this issue by not having as many fans running when its that cold so the water temp in the loop dont dip below a specific temp.... also in winter he could just use the quick disconnects and run each on separate rads

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That won't be the issue, it'll be the condensation when the cold liquid enters the room.

 

And if it is too cold and they have absolutely nothing intensive to do on the machines, they can always have them all contribute to the LTT Folding at Home team :D

 

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