Epic Watercooling

[VonBlade]

Not sure if this is well-known around these parts already, but it made me shake my head in disbelief.

Is it the multiple splits? The different tube sizes? The ludicrous amount of radiators? I can't quite decide what the worst bit of this is.

VB

 

[Freak]

Looks like a 300 imho

 

[mayhem]

Christ them GPU's PCB are bending like crazy.

Oh well each to there own.

 

[Ghosthud1]

must be a right mission too swap motherboards

 

[tinytomlogan]

LOL thats such a POS

I wouldnt even want to point a camera at it

 

[Peace11uehman]

that must of been a pain to leak test.

 

[Ducky Spud]

Thats just stupid haha, why all the different sized tubing? Thats what got my attention! I have some OCZ Flex RAM which can be watercooled but uses that tiny tubing and needs adapters and such... would end up looking like this... hence why im not watercooling it haha

 

[VonBlade]

Looks like a 300 imho

Ahhh. Maybe it's a top-of-the-range OCUK build.

:haha:

 

[Brooksie]

Ahhh. Maybe it's a top-of-the-range OCUK build.

:haha:

LOL

Looks horrible though. But it must of taken ages to set up

 

[Freak]

I really hope that it was just someone building it, using connectors to see how they affected cooling.

 

[monkey7]

Hmm the idea of parallel cooling with smaller tubing may not be as stupid as it looks.

If you cool serial (the normal way, nb->sb->CPU for example) the last item will recieve warmer fluid than the rest. If you use parallel cooling they will all get the cool fluid, although a lot less.

The advantage of using smaller tubing is the fact that pressure will remain about equal. Going from 1/2" to 2*1/2" will drop both the fluid pressure and speed by quite a lot. Using for exampel 2*3/8" or 2*1/4" will keep the speed and pressure up a bit more.

But this is theory, I think the resistance of splitting and joining already makes this inefficient

If this is a single loop (can't even see that) I'm feeling sorry for the pump though :/

EDIT: oh and he should have left out the two (or even more?) temperature probes out if this is a permanent setup.

 

[alexhull24]

I suppose the question is, what are the temps like?! That's really funny if it is one loop too. Where's the source of that image?

 

[VonBlade]

The source image came from a emulation site I'm a member of.

I thought serial cooling pumped so hard that the temperature quickly balanced and any potential "warmer" water from the previous item in the loop would be minimal at best.

 

[k4p84]

I have traced the tubing a few times and have come to the conclusion it is a single loop.

I think this rates in the 'All the gear but no idea' sector

Still its a good warning, you can over-do things kids !!

 

[alexhull24]

Indeed, I believe when using water cooling, the temperature of the liquid is much the same over the whole loop.

 

[oliveryochest]

i can't believe they would take a pic of that thing