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Linus’s whole room watercooling project

I am sat here watching Linus’s whole room watercooling project and I am going to attempt it myself but with only 2-3 pcs 

 

any tips ???

 

I am mounting a 160x160 mm raidiator outside with 4 fans ruining into my cpu block into my gpu block into a reservoir into my pump back into the raisiator 

 

and if anyone has any spare pc cases, fans  and anything else pc releted 

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Basically, don't do it.

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10 minutes ago, SandPug101 said:

Why

Didnt you watch the conclusion?

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Should be fine as long as you use propper tubing like the EK ZMT. And you will need a propper pump ;)

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22 minutes ago, SandPug101 said:

Why

It wasn't worth it. The result wasn't good because of the heat not effectively being transferred. 

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22 minutes ago, Dschijn said:

Should be fine as long as you use propper tubing like the EK ZMT. And you will need a propper pump ;)

Thanks a have a great pump from my old water cooling loop

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Its not that its a bad idea its just that it is difficult to properly work with. With how Linus did it, it basically turned the room into a large scale radiator itself. Heat didn't transfer outside but into the room itself. If there was a loop that went outside into a pool, that would be interesting, but would complicate things further. The simple thing you have to remember is that heat has to go somewhere. Radiators use fans to create a minor lower temperature, but if there are no fans..heat will just sit, which is why a full room rad is set to simply heat up your room. You're basically turning the room into the interior of a watercooled case (I would love to see a waterloop room using glass tubing). While if kept to just a few PCs it is negligible.  However... if you're in the far north, go for it. If you're like me in a place that is nearly a desert..no..just no.

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1 hour ago, SandPug101 said:

Why

First of all, it worked like crap.

Second, it costs a lot of money, which would get you far better cooling performance if it was invested into a regular watercooling loop.

Third, the amount of work you have to put in (or pay someone to put in) is not worth a few extra degrees of cooling by putting the radiator outside.

 

If you want the lowest possible temps, then use phase change.

If you just want regular liquid cooling you can have an external radiator box with a huge 9x120 or 9x140 radiator outside your PC without needing to do any of the whole room watercooling crap.

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I had great success doing it (low room temps, great system temps, virtually silent build), but several people have already linked some of my posts. In the beginning of my first post I am very misinformed, so I'd avoid some of that nonsense, I become much more coherent later in the project.

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