Jerry riggers guide to liquid cooling!

[IrishFiction]

That is a 12VDC 10 amp (max) liquid chilling system. It is a sample unit I bought from a Chinese HVAC equipment manufacture for about $500. It's about the size of shoe box.

 

 

I used this inverter. 

 

 

I was going to turn this into a very thorough and detailed post about my journey of building this rig, but Linus already went through the trouble of filming frustrating liquid cooling vlogs, so we already know the pain I went through with liquid cooling a SFF build.

 

It's quite noisy, so I'll update you with some numbers when it's not the middle of the night.

 

My specs are:

 

i7-8700k (OC 4.5Ghz)

ASROCK Fatality Z370 ITX

Zotac GTX 1080 Ti Amp Edition

Corsair Dom. Plat. 16gb (8x2)

2x Mushkin 1tb SSD

DIYPC Cuboid-G

This watercooling kit by EKWB

an additional universal waterblock for my GPU

an additional 120mm EKWB for no particular reason.

[wONKEyeYEs]

11 minutes ago, IrishFiction said:

That is a 12VDC 10 amp (max) liquid chilling system.

Cool. 

 

If it's an active cooler do you have any probs with condensation?

[IrishFiction]

18 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Cool. 

 

If it's an active cooler do you have any probs with condensation?

When I leak checked while leaving the unit running, the lines do condensate. I bought 1/2"x3/8" insulation for it, but since the coolant is dyed I thought I'd enjoy the eye candy a little while longer before doing any enthusiast-tier stuff. 

 

I turned the unit on just before starting this reply to you, and HWMonitor says that my GPU and CPU are about 19 C

[wONKEyeYEs]

3 minutes ago, IrishFiction said:

HWMonitor says that my GPU and CPU are about 19 C

 

[aezakmi]

39 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

 

to run 3 instances of crysis BF1 in 3 monitors at the same time