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water cooling with a chiller inline. Will it work?

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bruceb3

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Hi, everybody. My amd64 3500+ Winchester is running at 118 F overclocked to 2475 mhz on air cooling, so it's not a matter of "needing" to run cooler. I'm a firm believer in "More Is Better!". I'm a plumber and the other day a customer had me replace a small water chiller that was hooked up to a spigot next to his kitchen faucet. On the old chiller tank one of the 3/8" stainless steel tubes (the outlet tube) had a cracked weld at the tank so I took it in and had it welded back on. The compressor unit in the case looks identical to the compressor on a Mach 1 or 2 phase change setup. The case is about 18" long, 14" high and about 9" wide. Now rather than trying to figure out how to do a block directly to the setup which would be too complicated, couldn't I just hook the chiller up "in-line" on a system similar to a water cooling setup? The chiller is set up to handle 60-100 lbs. of water pressure and there's an inlet and an outlet on the front of the tank. The Freon or whatever is in this system circulates through a coil inside the stainless tank and there's a thermostat on the chiller. If it cools the water down to 38 or 40 degrees, would I have to worry about condensation on my block? If I hooked it up in-line I could probably do away with the radiator and fan, couldn't I? Any feedback would be appreciated :cool:
 
Sounds like a cool thing to try out. As long as you stay close to ambient, say within 20* depending on humidity, condensation should not be too much of an issue. Just use the chiller as the rad in your loop.

Let us know how it goes.


P.S. Do be careful of condensation though, hate to see a mobo or other things go all kilter on ya...
 
I also was thinking of using a used small Inline Aquarium Chiller with a temperature regulator. You could regulate the temps pretty close to room temperature. Stick with a small unit to keep the noise down 1/4 horsepower or so.. Keep us posted
 
anytime you go below ambient condensation can become a concern, especially if it is as humid where you are as it is where I am.

Also the most common problem with these chiller setups is that that majority of them are too weak to provide any benefit at all. Most of these devices are made to cool down ambient temperature water to nice cold water. They are not however made to keep up with the steady 100W heat output of a watercooling loop. Thus their cooling is often insignificant and not worth the extra ambient heat they put out, and the energy they consume.

That being said, go ahead and give it a shot, you have nothing to lose besides some time and effort if it doesn't provide noticeable better temps.
 
We just tried a Medical grade water chiller last week. We had to hook it up outside the case because of the size. However, the results were great and the temps were incredibly stable. We kept the temps relatively low 20C along with the room temp being the same. With 4 blocks and max stress on the system the temps never moved more than 2-3 degrees. Now if we could only find a small chiller! BTW, as someone else indicated, be careful of ambient room temp vs water temps, condensation is a bad thing.
 
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