making water cooling

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Hmm.. Why not? It may not be much, but it sure is better than plastic.

It's not even 0.1C better lol. It's better than plastic because it's far stronger. The main purpose of water cooling is to use water to transmit heat, not air. Water is by far a much better heat conductor than air, that's why aluminium plate will not help the heat dissipation.

Plastic is not OK actually, that's why manufacturers don't use cheap plastic. I've lost touched with water cooling, they use other types of plastic that doesn't crack easily.

[Max_87]

More like 0.00001C?

[Adrian Wong]

I think you mean perspex? That's a type of plastic... but very tough.

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

I think you mean perspex? That's a type of plastic... but very tough.

Acrylic top.

[generalRage1982hrv]

wow guys thanks for info
anyway i am making it from aluminum lol
well i dont have much time this days so it will take a while

[Lacus]

Wow, it's really cool that you can make your own WC stuff. I wonder is it possible that it performs much better than the ones sold current

[Max_87]

Nope, it's just not possible anymore. Read this editorial: ProCooling.com

There's few new real enthusiasts getting into cooling as a challenge as we did back in the late 90's through about 2004 or so. The benefits of further enthusiast refinement or engineering on products, or doing home grown designs are SO small and come at such a cost now, that the down turn in the "magic" was inevtiable. Now since the only new products to be had that change or improve performance can come from companies, the thrill is gone. There's no more "Hey if I find this certain heater core I can get another 5C off the temps!". Because stuff has been engineered beyond now... beyond the enthusiast level.

This is great from an engineering standpoint, it means that the limit of what can be done with water cooling is being realized by people who can put way more into design and engineering than any guy in his basement. But it has missed a big change in the industry that has been coming for years that calls into question the investment made into these rather lower end cooling systems.

It's the same for air cooling. I used to modify processor heatsinks to make them fit on graphics card back then. Now with heatsinks like HR-03 available, there is simply no point doing so anymore.

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Max_87

Nope, it's just not possible anymore. Read this editorial: ProCooling.com



It's the same for air cooling. I used to modify processor heatsinks to make them fit on graphics card back then. Now with heatsinks like HR-03 available, there is simply no point doing so anymore.

And Thermalright copied your idea!

[generalRage1982hrv]

max you are not only one who used cpu cooler on gpu cards
few years ago i used larg copper cooler on my old 6600GT also from thermaltakes cooler for Socket A
and you can reach better thermal resoults with some home made coolers
i know i cant get same performance like with buyd W.C. but i can cool my liquid with freezer and that will be better than buyd system
but anyway i will see what will hapend if i use my home made W.C. i hope it will show better performance than others
and for compare i would need quad core cpu and some other WC systems

[Adrian Wong]

Yeah, me too. I even attached the coolers to my graphics cards using nothing more than thermal paste!

Man.. Those were the days!