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     Hey guys, just thought  I could ask this. One, has watercooling a psu beed tried/done before? Two, if it has been done, are people mass producing systems with it? Three, if it has not been done, will it be done? Leave your opinions below, I just thought of asking this question.images.jpg

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it has probably been done. it would honestly not be the hardest thing in the world but it would be dangerus as hell because if ANY liquid leeks your system is tost, and probably a lot of other shit too tbh

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I don't believe so as it's my understanding they don't have heatsinks so there would be nothing to cool as such. I may be very wrong though haha! 

 

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It's been done,a company sold a hybrid PSU at one point for a bit.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, daniielrp said:

I don't believe so as it's my understanding they don't have heatsinks so there would be nothing to cool as such. I may be very wrong though haha! 

 

they have really big heatsinks to keep shit cool, why do you think they have massive fans? lol

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Just now, keNNySOC said:

 

 

 

http://www.legitreviews.com/deepcool-shows-off-water-cooled-power-supply-at-ces-2016_177512

i would never have that in my system, ever. watercooling your GPU and CPU and even RAM and Mobo i can be fine with, but not a fucking AC/DC converter. no. i would NEVER have that

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3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

i would never have that in my system, ever. watercooling your GPU and CPU and even RAM and Mobo i can be fine with, but not a fucking AC/DC converter. no. i would NEVER have that

well, modern power supplies actually have a bridge rectifier as pretty much the first component in the entire thing.

 

it's cheaper and more efficient for modern day electronics to convert DC/DC.

 

on topic: a lot of the components used in DC/DC conversion are actually quite happy running hot, so while watercooling is defenately ballin', there's pretty much no need to and for some specific components can actually hurt efficiency.

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But why? Pretty sure there have been psu's with no fan. But they are expensive as hell.

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Yes, you could technically do it. But that sort of thing would be right up there with motherboard monoblocks. It just doesn't make a lot of sense for 99.9% of users. even for those who want to watercool their CPU's or GPU's.

 

It really doesn't make sense to do it though. Unless you have it running in its own separate loop, the heated coolant from your other components would likely result in adding heat to your PSU rather than cooling it. Just buy a premium PSU. Those things stay cool and quiet pretty much no matter what load you put them under.

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