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Water cooled PSU?

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Willsonman

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Just wondering if there were any purchasable PSUs out there that are water cooled... or do I have to mod my PSU?
 
aquacomputer had one i think, or some german watercooling company. I remember it being fairly weak though.
 
Your better off just getting something like the Seasonic S12 series, or the Antec Phantom. I have the S12 and it truly is silent, and more powerful than any commercially available watercooled PSU.
 
Sharka stocks a H20 cooled PSU and the coolant only runs through the outside of a massive heatsink. Biggest problem IMHO is that it is only 20 pins. :(
 
seal every hole in the psu and run non-conductive fluid thrugh it, cools the caps and everything :D
 
llars said:
That would require some very large balls...
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which some of us have ;)

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WOW!! Good job. That must have taken a long time to make. Oh, and you definitely have cohones.
 
So how are you cooling off the rest of the PSU components? Convection?

BTW, nice work. :)
 
yeah the caps will pop i ment have the whole thing being filled with non-conductive liquid
 
Willsonman said:
would you be so kind as to supply a worklog of that in the modification forum?
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i did, a very detailed with lots of pics of the process, one that took me hours to write. The forum upgrade a year or so ago ate it, and i foolishly didn't have a back up. :mad:

I consider this pretty ghetto. I'll be doing a much more refined one for my new rig (parts already ordered) and will do a detailed write up of it.

Top Nurse said:
So how are you cooling off the rest of the PSU components? Convection?

BTW, nice work. :)
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thx, and i still have(had) a fan blowing blowing air through the PSU, i was able to use a quiet one though since the main heat source was WC'ed.


best [486] said:
yeah the caps will pop i ment have the whole thing being filled with non-conductive liquid
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it's tempting to try a full submergence cooled PSU, but i don't have time to do it elegantly. I'll stick with doing basically the same as in the pics, but less "ghetto" :D
 
topcat989 said:
thx, and i still have(had) a fan blowing blowing air through the PSU, i was able to use a quiet one though since the main heat source was WC'ed.
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nice!

the fact that you also have a fan to circulate air past the other components deals with the key gripe that i have with WC'd PSU's that i have seen previously.

even if you deal the the power handling 'fets, you can't just let the rest of the electronics cook. you have addressed that issue in a simple and effective manner.

props to you. :cool:
 
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