How do you like my ghetto-ass custom water loop?

[Puppetier]

The computer hardware is my old gaming rig. As for the watercooling parts, they all came from a certain chinese online marketplace, and they totaled $103.32 with shipping.

 

The AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ is cooled by a factory made block, wile the Asus GTX 650Ti BOOST VGA has an all purpose water block mounted by a special mounting hardware I made directly for this build.

 

 

I've included a drain valve for easier maintenance.

 

 

The pump-combo unit is mounted onto the radiator for easy reusability/portability.

 

 

The whole rig is cooled with a 280mm aluminium radiator.

 

The coolant is basic deionized water with 10% alcohol to prevent microbe growth in the coolant. I've added some blue food coloring to make it look better.

So what are your thoughts?

[Hayabusa1989]

4 minutes ago, Puppetier said:

The coolant is basic deionized water with 10% alcohol to prevent microbe growth in the coolant. I've added some blue food coloring to make it look better.

Food Coloring will make Microbial growth i'm afraid. 

[Damascus]

It has one up on my loop - a drain port

[Hayabusa1989]

3 minutes ago, Hayabusa1989 said:

Food Coloring will make Microbial growth i'm afraid. 

But i massively love Ghetto Builds. 

 

I did this a year odd ago, Old AIO Parts, a Cheap £10 Waterpump and some £7 Tubing  it worked for 6 months then i pulled it out before it had a chance to die/leak 

[Puppetier]

4 minutes ago, Hayabusa1989 said:

Food Coloring will make Microbial growth i'm afraid. 

Regardless of the alcohol? I'm kind of new to this, it is my first custom loop. (The coloring is totally artifical.)

[Hayabusa1989]

Just now, Puppetier said:

Regardless of the alcohol? I'm kind of new to this, it is my first custom loop. (The coloring is totally artifical.)

Hey we all started somewhere (see above) i got SLAMMED for one of my builds on here haha, From what i have seen on Jays2Cents and LTT Food Coloring should be avoided. 

[KenjiUmino]

19 minutes ago, Puppetier said:

The computer hardware is my old gaming rig. As for the watercooling parts, they all came from a certain chinese online marketplace, and they totaled $103.32 with shipping.

looks pretty good for cheap chinese stuff ... 

[ProjectBox153]

Looks pretty decent. Better hope that tubing above the hard drive doesn't break!

[PrimeSonic]

1 hour ago, Puppetier said:

The whole rig is cooled with a 280mm aluminium radiator.

I hope the rest of the metal components in there are also aluminum.

 

As for the alcohol, that's going to be the first thing to evaporate, so do consider replacing the fluid soon with something a little more kosher.

 

[Puppetier]

18 minutes ago, PrimeSonic said:

I hope the rest of the metal components in there are also aluminum.

 

As for the alcohol, that's going to be the first thing to evaporate, so do consider replacing the fluid soon with something a little more kosher.

 

All the components are aluminium, I looked up the basic rules to building. What kind of fluid would be kosher? Plain deionized water with a kill coil?

[PrimeSonic]

4 minutes ago, Puppetier said:

All the components are aluminium, I looked up the basic rules to building. What kind of fluid would be kosher? Plain deionized water with a kill coil?

Good, that'll pretty much prevent corrosion.

You can use a kill coil as a biocide. It's a little old school, but it should work. Though I'd be hesitant to use a silver coil in an aluminum loop.

 

I'd recommend getting a concentrate to use with Distilled/Deionized water.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/fluids-additives/shopby/fluid-type--concentrate/

They're not expensive, come in all sorts of colors, and have with all you need in a small bottle to mitigate with corrosion and bio-growths.

Plus, since they are concentrates, they're easier/cheaper to ship in case you don't have a supplier nearby.

 

Other than that, impressive what you've put together on a tight budget.

[Mick Naughty]

2 hours ago, Damascus said:

It has one up on my loop - a drain port

Same here. I can spend thousands on gpu's alone but I still don't have a drain port in any rig. 

 

Atleast they are doing it instead of saying they are afraid of this or that. 

[For Science!]

10 hours ago, Puppetier said:

All the components are aluminium, I looked up the basic rules to building. What kind of fluid would be kosher? Plain deionized water with a kill coil?

Isn't the scool cpu block a copper channel?

 

https://www.terapeak.com/worth/scool-cpu-water-cooling-block-waterblock-50mm-copper-base-cool-inner-channel/112231253103/

[Puppetier]

5 hours ago, For Science! said:

Isn't the scool cpu block a copper channel?

 

https://www.terapeak.com/worth/scool-cpu-water-cooling-block-waterblock-50mm-copper-base-cool-inner-channel/112231253103/

The item's description says aluminium. My guess is that it's a knock-off to mimic a scool block, since it's actually made and sold by some company named S SKYEE COOLING. Other than that I checked it and it did not have the copper-esque color like in the picture in your link, so all in all, I think it is an aluminium knock off.

[KSP]

G H E T T O A E S T H E T I C

[unknownmiscreant]

The alcohol will destroy all the arcylic/plexi  parts in your loop.

 

Alcohol is soluble in acrylic, and causes cracking.

 

Using a kill coil also probably isn't a good idea.

 

Get some EK-cryofuel, it'll be alot better, and is safe to use in an aluminium loop. Some coolants such as mayhems pastel react with aluminium.