Liquid Metal Water Cooling??

[theboy181]

I did a quick Google search and came up empty.

What would happen if you replaced the water from a maintenance-less water cooler with Liquid Metal? I think this would make an excellent video, even if it failed.  Does this exist? How much would it cost.

Please get this idea to the show.

[Enderman]

http://www.overclock.net/t/753637/liquid-cooling-with-mercury

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2171103/thought-exercise-mercury-liquid-coolant.html

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=333237

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1064692

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/334473-Liquid-Mercury-Cooling-O-!-!

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=171700

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0168900288904408

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248134-29-liquid-metal-cooler-water-cooling

 

[tp95112]

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[Shreyas1]

Just now, Enderman said:

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But gallium screws up aluminum right

[Enderman]

Just now, Shreyas1 said:

But gallium screws up aluminum right

Yes it does, go read through all those topics I linked.

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, theboy181 said:

I did a quick Google search and came up empty.

What would happen if you replaced the water from a maintenance-less water cooler with Liquid Metal? I think this would make an excellent video, even if it failed.  Does this exist? How much would it cost.

Please get this idea to the show.

It wouldn't be possible for the pump to move it around the loop but it's not that it hasn't ever been done before. 

http://www.frostytech.com/permalinkArch.cfm?NewsID=59728

[theboy181]

Is Liquid  Metal Gallium?

 

Thanks for the links too.

 

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, theboy181 said:

Is Liquid  Metal Gallium?

 

Thanks for the links too.

Yes its a gallium amalgam, it's also why they state to not use liquid metal TIM on aluminium heatsinks. 

[theboy181]

Would it not be cheaper to buy gallium amalgam for deliding then? I might go this route in the future if that's the case.

[Lord Nicoll]

17 minutes ago, theboy181 said:

Would it not be cheaper to buy gallium amalgam for deliding then? I might go this route in the future if that's the case.

I use Liquid metal all round for my i7 7700K, 5.3GHz is pretty fun....... and stock load temperatures of 40°C puts a smile on my face. 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

there are some wicked videos on youtube that demonstrate mercury eating metals.

[Shreyas1]

17 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

there are some wicked videos on youtube that demonstrate mercury eating metals.

That's not the only problem with mercury...

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

1 hour ago, Shreyas1 said:

That's not the only problem with mercury...

but surely having it dissolve every metal it touches is a pretty big problem?

[Shreyas1]

Just now, SCHISCHKA said:

but surely having it dissolve every metal it touches is a pretty big problem?

 I was talking about cancer, though I guess that's only with methyl mercury. Gallium also has that problem though

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

6 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

 I was talking about cancer, though I guess that's only with methyl mercury. Gallium also has that problem though

yea i wasnt thinking about that, cancer & other disease is the ultimate price of having a liquid metal cooling system that cannot be contained in metal.