watercooled water cooler

[Janope69]

So when i was laying in my bed thinking about random stuff, i came up with an idea. My idea is this. Can i put the radiator in a tank of water so the water from the tank cools the water in the radiator? Or am i missing a point here that makes this impossible

[Caesar]

What's the point of doing that ??

You would just ruin your radiator with rust.

[Whaler_99]

Wouldn't work I would guess. First, how would you keep your "tank" of water cool? That could be hard. Second, the water probably wouldn't pass through the fins as well as air, and then your cooling potential goes down.

[Exyn0s]

Possible, but highly improbable. If you put the radiator in a tank of water you'd have to find a way to cycle the water in the tank so that the heat doesn't just sit around, and you'd have to find a way to propel the water through the radiator fins at an efficient rate. It is an interesting idea and it's certainly original, but it would add a lot more bulk to a water cooling system, and it'd probably be really expensive.

[Boosted_i6]

Ive thought about doing this also but i was only thinking for a short amount of time. you could fill it with ice and try to get some extreme overclocks

also thought about putting a rad outside a window in the winter lol

[JordanMac]

It would work for a bit until the water in the watercooler becomes the same temperature as the coolant in the rig. At this point no heat would be transfered to the water in the watercooler so your coolant would just get hotter and hotter until it boils off the cpu/gpu heat.

[Gmac]

I think people have caught on pretty well on to this one. You would just slowly build heat up in the tank of water.

All good water cooling starts with good air cooling.

[Ghost]

My idea was to drill 2 holes in the side of a freezer. run tubes into it and put a radiator inside the freezer. You would get sub-zero cooling no?

Well I thought about it more and no it would not work. Why?

Mainly condensation. Anything below room temp will slowly collect water on it. That's obviously bad.

What YOU are talking about is a heat exchanger. Its what they use in some Nuclear power stations. They have two separate loops. The point of it in a power station being that you want to isolate the radioactive coolant but that's just about it. There's no more use to it.

[MrPibbles]

My friend cools the water in his loop, not to below zero but pretty cold, much more than just a rad would do

[Ghost]

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I know one way to do that what anyone can do but its the biggest waste of power that anyone could think of. It literally uses up to 200W to run.

[Kilmer02]

stick a bucket with water in it outside, get a huge pump and run water from the cold bucket to the bucket with the rad in it, that way that rad has cold water coming to it constantly, and send the warm water out into the cold bucket to be chilled again. Heat rises so the warm water will remain above the cold until it gets chilled then it will sink to the bottom of the bucket where the intake would be.This is totally overkill but in theory would work!

[SMuz]

If the tank of water doesn't ruin your radiator, I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as you have a way to get the heat out of the tank of water. One way you could do that is have a pump push the water through a radiator. You can just then use fan to pass cool air through the radiator.

[Guest]

My friend cools the water in his loop, not to below zero but pretty cold, much more than just a rad would do

If it's not done right, that can be fatal to your system. The cold fluid in the pipes can cause condensation on the outside of them which will be over things like your board or your cards which can lead to failures..

[Dark_Nemesis]

No disrespect to the TS, but why would you want to do that? Why not buy a custom waterloop, that will work hassle free? I'm running a swiftech mcp655, a 480 rad and 240rad, CPU idles 22C (about ambient +1) 35-38 after gaming a few hours .Do you need even more headroom than that, or are you gonna do some insane overclock? =)

[Janope69]

this was just a random question. i was just wondering if it will work. I could put some goldfish in the tank so the fish can somehow circulate the water a little bit I think before the radiotor will rust you would need a new pc. I don't think the water would get hot enough to ruin the cpu. the area i live in stays around 21c and i don't leave my computers on all day unless im downloading a game

[Manofchalk]

Main issue I can see is how you would cool the tank of water, and if the answer is pumps and radiators your just back to square one.

​Secondary issue would be making the water flow through the radiator to move heat off them, a pump is probably the simple answer.