A neato idea!

[Morphes]

Hey how hard would it to use wood as pipes in a WCing system, i think this would be great for people that want high insulated pipes however you would have to make them from scratch and would take a shitload of time... just a cool idea flaws?

 

[Grizzy]

They would be hard to get a good seal at the nipples, and they arent flexible

 

[mtl_hed]

Originally posted by Grizzy
They would be hard to get a good seal at the nipples, and they arent flexible

he said nipples....



I would worry about rotting. What is to keep the water from getting into the wood? Sure you can use water sealant, but will that keep out watter wetter and any anti-algae stuff you have in there?

Not worth the trouble and in my opinion it would be ugly.

 

[zer0signal667]

Originally posted by Morphes
Hey how hard would it to use wood as pipes in a WCing system, i think this would be great for people that want high insulated pipes however you would have to make them from scratch and would take a shitload of time... just a cool idea flaws?

Interesting idea... but why? And for which parts, just straight pipes?

 

[d03boy]

I think you would be better off just using a foam insulator. You could "decorate" it however you wanted.

 

[killernoodle]

I'd be more worried about wood crap being sucked into the radiator and waterblock. Watercooling already has enough problems with the equipment available

 

[heyheyhey]

Insulated is bad... it just keeps the heat in... =\

 

[Spewn]

You could probably fairly easily make wooden *insulation* and use copper piping for the rig. If you did that, you could make it LOOK like you were using wooden pipes, but not have any of the drawbacks(like the wood rotting, wood getting sucked through your system, leaking, the wood soaking up tons of water etc)

 

[Morphes]

dude insulated isnt bad, if u have a nitrogen or peltier system going on u would want to have max heat dispation at the rad not threw the pipes. And the reason to do it would be to be differnt, just thought i would share an idea i thought up as i was on the shitter

 

[zer0signal667]

Originally posted by Morphes
dude insulated isnt bad, if u have a nitrogen or peltier system going on u would want to have max heat dispation at the rad not threw the pipes. And the reason to do it would be to be differnt, just thought i would share an idea i thought up as i was on the shitter

Actually, the only time you'd want insulated tubing is if your water temp was below ambient. This is not the case with a peltier (unless it's chilling the water) and I have no idea how you would apply this to liquid nitrogen cooling anyway.

 

[Spewn]

Actually, one distinct advantage of insulating your pipes for a watercooling setup would be that you would keep more heat *out* of your computer case, making it easier to keep your drives, northbridge, graphics card etc much cooler.

 

[zer0signal667]

Originally posted by Spewn
Actually, one distinct advantage of insulating your pipes for a watercooling setup would be that you would keep more heat *out* of your computer case, making it easier to keep your drives, northbridge, graphics card etc much cooler.

Much cooler? I doubt it. With the water being only a few degrees above ambient temps, it's probably at the same temp or cooler than your case air. Even if it was a few degrees above your case air temps, the heat transfer from the tubing to your case internal would be negligible.