watercooling Cheap Custom Liquid Cooling

[murderlot]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this, it's my first time posting on here. I saw LTT's recent video "Custom Liquid Cooling for Less $ than an AIO Cooler" and it made me think of a cheapo test build i made a few months back, i got all the supplies from eBay i'll list them; Cable ties, Pump/Res combo, 90mm radiator w/ fan, CPU block and GPU block with mountings, tubing and a blue LED. it was around £35 all together and i don't have the original links due to it being so long ago, but i remember the pump being around £5, CPU block was around £6, GPU block around £11, radiator was about £6, tubing maybe £4, Cable ties £1 and the straw hat LED £2. Both cooling blocks are copper and the radiator is zinc or aluminium, i know it's a no, no but it was the cheapest i could get and the only one i have spare is 280mm and far too big for the intended case. i put a small sliver of silver in the res and used distilled water with some blue dye i had left from an older build. So far it's been sitting downstairs used just for casual couch gaming maybe 5 hours a week for 6 months and i can't see and corrosion on the copper block, since i created the loop i removed the GPU block as i swapped out the old 9600gso for a GTX 460 i had lying around and the only reason i made the block was to stop the noisy 9600 i won't get into the rest of the specs, they aren't that great. I didn't have any leaks the tissue is there for me to test for them, I remember the temps being around 5° - 10° cooler at full load compared to the stock coolers i had beforehand and it being significantly quieter. The way i have it set up bleeding the loop is an issue but it was just a little test anyway and i'm not too bothered about it. I was worried at first about using such a cheap pump but it's still working fine and outlasted what i expected, i do have to say though the trickiest part was that every barb was a different size to what was listed on eBay and heating the pipe with hot water was required with all but the radiator barbs. all in it's a bit of a hack but i think nifty non the less, hope you like it. https://imgur.com/a/ylGje

 

-JW

[Metallus97]

Wow 

looks pretty sic 

props man 

 

[Enderman]

At least this is actually using real computer watercooling components.

Linus' video is horrible and it will convince a ton of kids that they should do it. Then I will need to explain to thousands of people that come to the forum complaining their PC doesn't turn on that it is dead.