Anyone make copper reservoirs?

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Yes, they'd be expensive, but cool as hell. Matter of fact, with some fins, it could also act as a radiator of sorts.

Basically, I loathe acrylic and most plastics (though, PVC/HDPD can work, but ugly) in a loop full of chemicals. I also don't like mixed metals (found a few aluminum res's). So, are there any simple copper or brass res's out there, or am I looking at a custom one-off deal (ka-CHING$$$$)?
 
You could use an aluminum one so long as proper precautions are taken to prevent galvanic corrosion...

But, I've only seen one or two copper reservoirs, I believe they were aquatubes or something...
 
I'm still looking. One of those Bitspower Al would work, but I'm not sure if the anodization would prevent corrosion. Of course, I could always find an Al block/rad also.
 
I assume you don't care if it's not clear, but you could use just about anything from a plumbing store to make an all metal reservoir. I'm sure the McMaster-Carr catalog would have some things that'd work as well. I understand your fear of acrylic, but what about glass? Laboratory type stuff. Say a small Erlenmeyer flask with a rubber stopper containing two ports. One goes in, the other goes out. With a bit of work, you could probably kludge together something pretty cool.

Jeremy
 
Might be an interesting read for you:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=195880

If you aren't already doing it, search for copper box instead of copper reservior, somewhere out there someone probably makes copper boxes for other uses. Or get a copper bar, a drill bit/press and drill the bar out to be a box, then cut a copper sheet to be the top. Gonna be looking into this myself later after work.
 
I like the idea of using an Erlenmeyer flask personally. But you could use some copper pipes from the hardware store as a res as well. Then buy a small sheet of copper for a couple bugs and cut out some circles for each end and voila, a pipe...er a res!
 
Yeah, I got trapped in a conversation with the local guy at MicorCenter a couple of weeks back about this same subject. I was eye'ing their stock of MCR320's, when I felt his eye balls target me. :rolleyes:

After spending 10mins of trying to get away, he proudly told me that he no longer used rad's, and his custom built all Cu reservoir was hi pride and joy. Stated" Once he figured out that if his res had enough capacity to dissipate the heat, he no longer needed a rad."

To which I thought in my head, "Um, isn't that just a glorified rad?" Fortunately I said nothing aloud, and was able to escape the trap with only ankle bite marks. (after being "engaged" all the way past the register.)

I am curious as to why we've never seen one of the major MFG's put something out there, unless they are of the like mind that an all Cu res is basically a rad?
 
Unless his all copper reservoir has huge fans directly blowing on it, or his reservoir is huge in size, I call shenanigans. Can it help? Sure. Can it completely remove the need for radiator(s)? Hell no, or we'd see a lot more copper based reservoirs. Based on his logic, I can use all copper tubing and remove the need for a radiator.
 
Yea, exactly. He has a high capacity for heat absorption, but no real way of getting rid of it. I would assume he only stresses the computer in short spurts if it's a working for him. A 24 hour torture test involving Prime95 small FFTs and something like Furmark would probably cook his setup pretty nicely.

Jeremy
 
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