Diving into cool water that's right there under us
Diving into cool water that's right there under us
rubix_1011 : I don't think anyone here really has a crazy idea or makes something up. We guys run water to keep our computers from getting too hot... that puts us in a room with just us, but we're all on the same boat and wearing the same tight shirt. There is never enough craziness when it comes to cooling stuff down. Edit: Have you thought about buying a pump to make the water move? I wonder if this would work like an oven where hot air circulates helps bake things evenly? Good point, overclockers are just a small group compared to everyone else, and people using coolers are even smaller than that.
toolmaker_03 : ok that is cool, i don't have two freezers, but i do have one stand up freezer and it can hold about 30 gallons. do you think that will get me to about six hours of game time or would that be three? 30 gallons? You need to read this thread again. With 8 gallons of water in the cooler I can only add 2 jugs of ice at one time? If i drop the water level to 7 gallons, I can add 3 gallon jugs of ice, but that will drop me down to condensation producing levels and i don't want or need to go that low. Any cooling you can attain below ambient room temperature even just 3c below ambient changes overclocking headroom drastically. 20c is 3c below my ambient room temperature, i use 20c as my change out point and swap to 2 freshly frozen jugs, 30minutes later i am at 15c and it takes about 4 hours to get back to 20c. i can game all day long if i want even with the GPUs added to the mix swapping out 6 gallon jugs 2 at the time, that leaves 4 fully frozen in reserve still in the freezer. FYI, i don't game for 12hours at the time, i don't know your gaming habits, but maybe this clears it up some.
I know this and the hot water coming out is melting the ice fast. That's why I asked how long it will take for thirty gallons at ten gallons per fill or when every switch turns on as the temps get higher. ok I get it now, you mean one hundred gallons total. so that means five gallons a day, something like that.
In all honesty, figuring out exactly what you're asking for is hard because there are too many things going on. Basically, this project is like filling a big pond with ice to cool the water down below normal temperatures. The ice takes away heat and also drops the overall temperature since the radiators aren't working right now.
In all truth, figuring out exactly what you want isn't easy because so many things change the outcome. Basically, this project works like putting ice into a big pool to make the water colder than normal air temperature. The ice lowers both the heat coming out and the overall coolness since no normal radiators are running yet. But eventually, regular radiators will be turned on, which marks a brand new update where I made a special cooling box just for my GPUs.
A really annoying glitch called a radbox bug is hurting things pretty badly right now.
rubix_1011 : Have you thought about getting a circulation pump for your cooler? Does that make the air flow inside like it does in an oven with hot air moving around, making things cool down better? I forgot about that too, just running the return line to the back of the unit works the same way. rubix_1011 : The radbox bug has hit us pretty hard here. It's a great way to keep the GPU cold and looks much cleaner than before.
I paused to ponder a couple of things: the circuitry would work fine on its own, even without much coffee right now. But what other problems could have happened with those new graphics cards and radiation levels inside the loop? You said something went wrong there after all.
It gets super hot and makes plants grow weirdly. I wouldn't give up on my garden, though. Maybe I should add more UV rays to the tank, or switch out those buckets before they get too full of algae, or just keep a growth-killing liquid around just in case...
I personally use heat exchangers with a closed loop. I'll put the cooler as a water/slush box so the radiation rods go inside it. The water loop will stay sealed, but I'd keep either a coolant or growth-controlled water in the cooler and use the ice jugs that way too. The cooler's internal growth has to come from condensation collecting and then hiding crawls; otherwise, nothing would grow in the chemical mixture of those microbial inhibitor tablets he made up for me.