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[SimonB]

Hi everyone today i would like to ask if someone tryed, or consider trying it : the cheaper way of doing things ^.^ well 2 ideas:
1) Car Parts Radiator i guess small rez might work but ussually car rads have rez and fill port on top of the rads , for pump im not sure maybe posible to work with car pump but it might end up in having problem with sound ussually car parts arent made for computers but probably u might make some cage or box for pump and put some sound damping material (or try to use some pump for aquariums it might be cheaper i guess) well only part u must buy is a good cpu block anyway but car rad would be so much saving even if u look for cooper rad it will be way cheaper (ofcourse it wount have fan mounting and shit but thats why its cheaper and it called moding =D anyway) i gues it might work so im interested in other opinion (also sow some huge rads in cars for so cheap =DD)
2: its hard asks for super much of job and is super risky and its really for ppl who want to put much time and effort in it Freezer well this idea is based on refrigerators or freezers anyway it does around -20 C but the biggest problem is conduction (even if u use antifreeze liq) probably metal parts on the cpu block it self start to conduct water from surounding air (probably in ice form ) im not sure but probably the right way should be glaze or something but again u should but it all aver your cpu block and probably most of surrounding metal parts on mobo and im not sure if its right (why i do speak about conduction coz this is for 24/7 build not for tests or records only) its extreme but posible .
so would be nice to hear other opinions maybe suggestions or even partners for trying this ideas out coz 2 idea probably would alow to further the dead spot off cpu heating well sry for ppl who red and had troble with it my english spelling isint great well anyway hope someone is interested or maybe even done it before

 

[jamesriley94]

You can get Phase Changers for PCs which are basically freezers. They're just a bit loud though I think.

 

[Perturabo]

In answer to 1)

Car rads are pretty restrictive I believe and the pumps are belt driven rather than electrically so you would need to mod that too. I think a normal W/C pump would struggle to keep a decent pressure. Ive seen people use a car heater core before, that it possible, if a little rustic looking

And yeah as above, those phase change units use the same principle as freezers. Really loud though. I think making one might be an issue as at some point as you will need to start playing with refridgerants, which are really horrible chemicals generally.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yeah its been done before but better sadly......

 

[SimonB]

well that was and idea of making cheaper cpu cooler's and there is much of diferent car parts and how did they fixed conduction with that PCU

 

[SimonB]

Yeah its been done before but better sadly......

maybe so Tom but its just an idea off student =D it shouldnt be perfect =D all ideas must be polished and never the less most of ideas arent ass god as it seems from first look maybe later in winter i will have some more time to try to test such things up . Anyway its nice u bothered to even read what i wrote .

 

[SimonB]

+ Just tought and if just take a small chiller and drill 2 wholes in it and but a rad inside chiller + everything is like in usual WC'ling exept the conduktion with it i(or we) should deal somehow maybe like i said with glaze witch not short motherboard =D yes i knew sound and staff

 

[jamesriley94]

Don't triple - or even double post mate.
Edit your posts in future and add more on

 

[Nurf]

+ Just tought and if just take a small chiller and drill 2 wholes in it and but a rad inside chiller + everything is like in usual WC'ling exept the conduktion with it i(or we) should deal somehow maybe like i said with glaze witch not short motherboard =D yes i knew sound and staff

This is like getting a big freezer and opening the lid to cool your room in the summer. :lol: You can't just put a constant heat source in a freezer and think it will continue working normally.

Using car/motorcycle parts is a very old school idea. While your at it, you could use garden hose as tubing and a big bucket as a rez. Then you could add some ice cubes when benching.

 

[SimonB]

wow i hoped most ppl will be nice but as far as i see most of them is rude and sarcastic not everyone lives in uk, germany or other country where you get good vages and some ppl cant invest like half a year payment just for WC system anyway thanx for even reading it

 

[hmmblah]

Before water cooling products were produced like today, people used car heater cores and pond/aquarium pumps. Modding was a must to get everything to fit and it wasn't about how good it looked. Some came out looking decent, but most from what I remember looked like a Frankenstein PC. Watercooling was reserved for the extreme.

 

[SimonB]

Before water cooling products were produced like today, people used car heater cores and pond/aquarium pumps. Modding was a must to get everything to fit and it wasn't about how good it looked. Some came out looking decent, but most from what I remember looked like a Frankenstein PC. Watercooling was reserved for the extreme.

well i agree with that =D i have seen some really lets say Strange looking pc's =D with car parts cooling but i also seen few rad's looking really good it was from some old cars i think its from moskvich or something similar to it it was even cooper with black outside even seem similar to 140 or maybe 180 single fan rad only thing there was no wholes for fans =D but i guess in such case its possible to use glue with rubber case fittings they add with some fans and it should look very decent just don't knew will it perform as good

 

[Nurf]

If my earlier post came out rude, that was not my intent. As for the other replies, I'd call them more constuctive than rude.

Talking about freezer mods and car radiators sounded to me like you were wanting to make an old school frankenstein pc, just for the fun of it, but if your main goal is to get a cheap water cooling build, you can do so without resorting to homemade solutions. Choosing the right parts from the right place or buying second hand stuff can save alot of money and if prices are high at home, its quite easy to order from other EU countries.

If you do want to go homemade, I've seen a few completely selfmade passive radiators, but the ones that actually work properly have involved using the best possible materials and alot of know-how, plus in the end haven't been very cheap to make.

 

[SuB]

Before water cooling products were produced like today, people used car heater cores and pond/aquarium pumps.

I remember my first 2 Eheim pumps.. with innovatek kit.. What a noisey lot compared to todays super easy super quiet gear lol

 

[nepas]

1.Car parts-Old school water cooling.
2.Freezer-NO.

 

[Eyal]

Don't try a freezer!
But using car parts for PC cooling sounds so awesome! I'd say its not going to be easy, and probably more expensive than having a regular loop. But it's not always a matter of performance per $, it's about doing something special!
I don't know much about cars, so I can be sure about the price that its going to coast you. Or how many hours you will have to spend working on it...

 

[SimonB]

Don't try a freezer!
But using car parts for PC cooling sounds so awesome! I'd say its not going to be easy, and probably more expensive than having a regular loop. But it's not always a matter of performance per $, it's about doing something special!
I don't know much about cars, so I can be sure about the price that its going to coast you. Or how many hours you will have to spend working on it...

well sorry all for being missing lately was partying after sat i defended 2 belts in KUDO (MMA) and well new car parts are expensive but used ones are really cheap i will have some more free time next month and then i will deside probably what to do =D and yes its more like personal rig where u want to do it hard way but then you can be proud that u done it anyway i will have to make new case or buy one but probably gonna do it my self from flywood or something

 

[Eyal]

That's great. In my country everything is creepy expensive.
And it'd be awesome if you make the PC be in car theme. Will you do a built log of it?

 

[SimonB]

That's great. In my country everything is creepy expensive.
And it'd be awesome if you make the PC be in car theme. Will you do a built log of it?

if i really do it i will make log just dont have much time atm sesion time lots of egzams and work in university

 

[Pugsport]

id say you would be better off with a car heater matrixs or an a/c rad if you want to go down the car parts route because car rads have quite alot of fins going over the pipes and normally run two large fans for airflow run of a relay and a heavy 12v supply.

some of the Volkswagen (i know they were fitted to the T4 Transporter) have a 2nd electric pump to keep the flow going after you turn the engine off. you may be able to use one or two of these