DIY PC water cooling and Case

[MrK6]

Looks awesome, came out well. I'm curious to see how far your 4850 will go on water; they're good overclockers .

 

[ViviTheMage]

impressive!

 

[bleucharm28]

That is truly amazing work

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

Thank you Sir.

 

[Skyhanger]

Excellent work.

Perhaps you can start up a PC cooling supplies company in India. You appear to have the skills to manufacture watercooling components that can be market ready. I assume the best cooling parts have to be imported and thus are expensive. This means less competition locally.

Also I suggest jury-rigging some filter for your air intake to reduce the dust that gathers inside your case.

 

[aigomorla]

Wow.... you did almost everything from scratch...

Good job, however you made the one biggest mistake in our hobby with water.

That is the mixing Aluminum and Copper in the same wetted loop.
When i say wetted, i mean water contact.

In the presence of a electrolyte.. ie current from your computer, you can initiate galvanic corrosion. This can be very bad in a closed system.

The easiest fix is to stick with metals close to each other in the galvanic table.

Ie. Brass + copper... Nickle + copper.... Some SS steel will also rust, so make sure u get good steel.

We dont like using chemicals to slow gavlanic corrosion.
Usually the chemical needed is either massive quanitites of Ethly Glycol, or water wetter.
Both very bad because they lower the holding capacity of water by adding viscosity to it.

Seeing how your an avid modder, have you tried to aquire an old heatercore from a bonniville?

We call them bonnie heatercores, there made out of copper, and should take care of the alu rad i saw.

 

[stargazr]

Wow, it's awesome! You are very talented.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

Thanks you all.. Specially "Aigomorla", the alumi rad i am using is having some type of coating on inside to resist Galvanic effect. It's working fine till date. I have chemically tested the water sample from the loop for any type of oxidation traces due to galvanic.. but it came safe.. according to my friend who is chemical engineer, it will take about more then 50+ years for my loop to get distroied via Galvanic effect.. till then i must have made many mods.. so no worry..

Any why thanks for concern.

Rakesh Sharma
Jodhpur, India.

 

[Anomaly1964]

WOW...that is freakin' IMPRESSIVE!

 

[urndel]

Thanks you all.. Specially "Aigomorla", the alumi rad i am using is having some type of coating on inside to resist Galvanic effect. It's working fine till date. I have chemically tested the water sample from the loop for any type of oxidation traces due to galvanic.. but it came safe.. according to my friend who is chemical engineer, it will take about more then 50+ years for my loop to get distroied via Galvanic effect.. till then i must have made many mods.. so no worry..

Any why thanks for concern.

Rakesh Sharma
Jodhpur, India.

I haven't done water cooling yet and my knowledge on corrosion is limited so I could be very wrong here. However a big part of my materials unit during my engineering course was dedicated to corrosion.

Since the only connection between the aluminium and copper is only through the water it shouldn't mater that much because as long as you don't run a wire between them there is no closed electrical loop. That loop is needed for galvanic corrosion.
His case isn't metal like most cases. The only problem I see would be with the heater coil since you actually welded copper to aluminium there. But the anode (the aluminium) is much bigger than cathode (the copper) so it should take a long time to corrode a leak in the radiator

And finally: very nice job. That definitely takes talent. You should sell custom builds.

 

[blckgrffn]

Yeah, wow. That's awesome. I feel like I might get adventuresome and order some parts online - and you made yours! Congrats on everything working out

:awe:

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I see some mixed metals. Have you had issues with galvanic corrosion?

Edit: nevermind, I see this has been discussed.

 

[Fantazn]

Cool build