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Centralized Watercooling???

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Little Grabbi

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Okay, here's the story... I've just recently discovered two pipes coming out of the basement wall. Needless to say, I was interested, and so I pumped water into one of these 2" holes. It came out the other side about 20 seconds later, making for a fairly long loop. Later calculations confirmed this, I had about 80 feet of 2" pipe under my garden, for some reason. The former owner of the house is dead, so I can't ask him. Now these pipes are in the same room as my comps...

What I propose is to hook up the three w/c systems to one larger pump, with a buffer reservoir between them. the large pump would force water through the pipe in the ground, cooling it.

comments?

ps: yeah, I'm insane. That's why I live in Germany hehe
 
it sounds like itd work, but I wouldnt. Those sound like they might be irrigation pipes that have just become blocked enought that the water you pumped in can come back. Who knows really.

Also why the hell would you dump water into some unknown pipes in the wall??? Sounds like asking for trouble...
 
It could be the remnants of a heat pump system. I doubt anyone would use 2" pipe for irrigating a residential garden.

The idea behind pumping the water through the ground is that in the winter, the ground is warmer than the air and during the summer the ground is cooler than the air.
 
Kronchev--- Your post inspired me to pressure-test the thing. Right now it's got 71 atmospheres of compressed Air in it, been stedy for two minutes. Seems like it was a heat pump. I think I might re-use it to pump heat in the other direction...
 
Originally posted by Little Grabbi
I think I might re-use it to pump heat in the other direction...
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Sweet! My gut reaction is that this could be a good thing since the ground will almost certainly be cooler than water coming off a waterblock. My only concern is flowrate. With a 2" pipe you're going to need a seriously heavy duty WC setup to push any appreciable flow through the pipe. Then again, the pipe will essentially be acting as a cooler and reservoir! Wow! This could be cool! (Literally)

<edit>One thing you will need to do though is somehow seriously clean the line out and actually feel safe that no gargabe will come loose at some point and clog a waterblock. But with a good filtration system you could take care of that. However, there would be almost no way to make sure the water was pure beyond making sure the big pieces are out. You may end up with corrosion long term in your blocks.

Oh! Oh! How about an intercooler? Hook up a 2" pump and run your primary WC loop through an intercooler!</edit>
 
get a BIG pump and some heavy duty WB's and it will owrk, make sure the WB's are bolted on cuz with something like the pump u will be needing u will have LOTSA psi on the blocks
 
Heat pumps work because the ground once you get down deep enough stays around 50-55F degrees all year.
 
That would be so F*cking cool. Having a system with constantly moving water, and the ability to tap into and out of it :D GODDAMN
 
hmm... i'll have to see about putting one of these systems in in my yard. i'm sure my parents wouldn't mind (much) good luck with it!


btw, try to avoid posting at 1:45AM if you can, it wreaks havoc with your typing.
 
stretching the memory bigtime here but it seems like some of the very early solar-energy based cooling systems for homes used a pipe config something like that. I read about that fricken eons ago so I might be way off base.

anyway, if the pipes are solid, it sounds like it might be worth a shot.

I have seen systems with buried 1" copper pipe before that worked very well. might still have the links somewhere...
 
I'm planning to WC three, possibly four PCs with this, plus my friend's if he comes over.

About all the gunk in there: I'm thinking of the following chemical reaction: Silver nitrate Soloution + Copper = copper nitrate soloution + silver coating on remaining copper... I did the same thing to _all_ the metal in my wc setup, including the radiators. No corrosion at all. The gunk would be cleared out the same way as drains under streets, I'd blast a bottle brush thru it repeatedly with compressed air and water. After that the silver nitrate, clean that out, good to go.

About high-pressure waterblocks: To eliminate the problem of running the whole system at a high pressure I'd put a reservoir between the cold loop (pipe in the ground and big pump) and the hot loops (actual piping in PCs). The reservoir could be open, he silver nitrate from a while ago is lethal to bacteria and algae.
 
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