Phase Change + Water loop

[Requiem0666]

Would it be possible to make a waterloop connected to a phase change unit to cool the whole system down? (Connect an extra cpu cooler to the phase change unit to cool down the water) 

[Taswell]

just hook the phase change up to the radiator =P (don't really do it)

[McHox]

could be too cold and freeze the water

[Rodniz]

2 minutes ago, McHox said:

could be too cold and freeze the water

Who needs an waterloop? Iceloop inc.

[mikat]

1 minute ago, McHox said:

could be too cold and freeze the water

yup, the phase change cooler would cool down the water so much that it would freeze lol, and rip watercooling then

[Tylerebowers]

 

[Jumper118]

thats just like having a water chiller 

[harrynowl]

I sort of theorized popping a CPU block into my benchmarking loop and putting my weak phase on it with a very glycol heavy mix to prevent freezing, but you might as well just buy a big chiller.

[ConnorDahne]

I've been emailing this company for over a year trying to buy one of these... not working out very well lol

http://www.legitreviews.com/ces-2015-captherm_157114

[Klasta]

It's an interesting idea. I'd imagine the only viable place you could stick a Phase-change cooler to is the bottom of a reservoir but it would be nearly impossible to predict which of the plausible issues you'd run into.

 

• Freezing the reservoir. This might actually not be that big of a deal as I'd be fairly amazed if it were capable of freezing the entire reservoir and I'd doubt you'd see 'ice-embolisms' causing a lot of problems.
• Cracking of the reservoir. This is a serious concern depending on the type of reservoir.
• Condensation on the reservoir and the proximal outflow tubing. This could straight up ruin your pc and in my opinion, is enough for a reason not to attempt it. Maybe you could prevent it by isolating your tubing but then you probably just end up with condensation on your cpu block instead which is even worse.

And that's where the problem lies. Anything that goes too cold compared to the environment, will cause condensation depending on the humidity and will require serious preparation and resources to keep it from killing your pc. If you could somehow hook up a thermostat which controls the phase-change cooler so that the water temps never drops too far below environmental temps, you might be getting somewhere. But then again, any proper radiator setup comes too close to that to warrant such an expense.

So unless you live in a desert, I'd leave it be.