Watercooling With Toilet Water?

So much for using distilled water, huh? Wonder how long before the tubing is full of "crap"?
 
Oh my... I've never actually seen the inside of a toilet tank that's dirty. Out of all the apartments and homes growing up. As well as all of my apartments and now my own house. I have never seen a tank like that. How the f*** does that get like that?
 
Reminds me of a bathroom scene from the movie Desperado:
 
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At least it's not the worst toilet in Scotland
 
I imagine all that funk is growing in there due to the heat making a perfect breeding ground. Still really gross. :eek:
 
Im sure a toilet with an upper decker should not be used for water cooling.
 
It's probably magnesium, iron, and mold. Nasty. He could of at least used a heat exchanger.
 
Needs a better water softener is all, but still there would be too much salt and minerals in the water for this to not build up inside the cooling setup. Maybe scrub the toilet good and install a reverse osmosis system to the toilet since it obviously can't be flushed anyway or the system would get air in the line. Sounds like a lot of work and expense; but I do like seeing people do strange things like this! :) I guess since there would be no flushing involved, just fill it with distilled and keep topping it off as it evaporates.
 
Just a little mold... Ours has a little brown on the inside as well. Ide drink out of it.:eek:
 
runs cooling through the wall but does that w/ the wires... don't get it.
 
lol....dang. At least you never have to empty your reservoir. It flushes itself every few hours :p
 
I'm confused, what exactly is this hooked up too?

I just see hoses leading into a hole in the wall, they aren't actually hooked up too anything, the first picture just shows a mounted motherboard on top of the linux penguin, but its not being watercooled, I can see the AMD cooler mounted on it
 
Also, bravo stupid, I like how if this is true, whenever the guy flushes, his toilet is going to go so low that the pump will be chugging air each and every time, I give him a week of pressure differentials stress before his clasps fail
 
He's not actually using the water in the toilet to cool the computer, he's using the water of the toilet to cool the liquid in the loop.

...I hope.
 
Brak710 said:
He's not actually using the water in the toilet to cool the computer, he's using the water of the toilet to cool the liquid in the loop.

...I hope.
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Looks like the there's a loop and an intake line, the black one.
 
DMFD-Minister said:
lol....dang. At least you never have to empty your reservoir. It flushes itself every few hours :p
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What happens when your water cooling gets clogged?

Where do you put the plunger?

(to WoW guildmates) : Hang on guys, I have to plunge out my tower really quick
 
A 7L tank would have a heat capacity of 29300J/degree C. So if the computer is putting out 40W on average that would raise the water temperature 5 C per hour assuming you can dump all the heat into the tank.

So if the water starts out at 15C (59F) then you've got 3-4 hours until you start getting pretty inefficient. I would think most people would want to have the tank set to auto flush every few hours unless you can guarantee someone is going to flush it every 3 hours, always.

I have to say this is a pretty good idea in a broad sense, unless you live in an arid climate where water resources are stretched thin. I would have dunked a large heat exchanger in the tank and run DI into my system though.
 
although this is an older toilet than mine, my toilet only evacuates about half the tank before the flush valve closes, allowing it to fill up again. Of course, that's if you allow the flush cycle to run naturally. If you hold the handle down in order to make sure that thing you're flushing never comes back, you could run the risk of getting air in the line.

Go to the link for a gallery of images. the PC image [H] shows is before the water-cooling is installed on the PC.

Imagine visiting this house, and then having to make an emergency trip to the restroom. you rush to get into position, and upon sitting, you realize the tank is humming and vibrating...
 
Proneax said:
I would think most people would want to have the tank set to auto flush every few hours unless you can guarantee someone is going to flush it every 3 hours, always.
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Depending on how many people are in the house during the day, that may not be an issue.
 
Brak710 said:
He's not actually using the water in the toilet to cool the computer, he's using the water of the toilet to cool the liquid in the loop.

...I hope.
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I truly hope that's a heat exchanger where he dumped the radiator into the tank and he's not actually sucking it in. The mineral buildup looks bad.

PS:

http://www.clearfoundation.com/Community/Photos/Faucon/37/Photo.html#photoid=153

Not sure how these things are setup, but that looks like a hose dumping water back into the 'reservoir'. Black line is the power cable to the pump. How long do you think it'll be before he'll have to replace the entire cooling system.

Maybe he just needs to dump solvents in the tank once in a while to dissolve any buildup?
 
Why not get a 5 gallon bucket with a lid from Home Depot? Put some anti alginate in it and pump away. It has to be better than pulling it out of the toilet. And what happens if someone drains all the water from the reservoir?
 
MikeTrike said:
Oh my... I've never actually seen the inside of a toilet tank that's dirty. Out of all the apartments and homes growing up. As well as all of my apartments and now my own house. I have never seen a tank like that. How the f*** does that get like that?
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david_ said:
runs cooling through the wall but does that w/ the wires... don't get it.
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We're talking about a guy with a giant Tux Penguin on his wall. He probably gets laid about as often as he cleans the bathroom.
 
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