Get a Chest freezer (ya know what your grandparents have because they save meat for like 3 years) put it in the basement (or anywere else) put a drum with anitfreeze with a Pump inside of it, run input and output tubes from your pump out of the freezer and into your case (insulate the tubing of course).
Now you have a almost unlimited supply of coolant that is at or below freezing. now you could probably directly cool your cpu with such a setup. and it would probably work fairly well. but I'm not really interested in cooling the cpu exclusively, I'm looking to cool everything in my case. so my idea was to take that coldass water that I've got comming into my case and run it into a radiator with a 120 on it effectivly blowing icy cold air all over inside my case. It would appear as if this could have some serious potential to cool.
now,
Will a normal water cooling pump like I see forsale everywere be able to push water effectivly through about 40 foot of tubing plus a radiator? (fairly big dia tubing I'm shooting for probably 3/8 or more?)
Is there a specific type of insulation that works the best for keeping the tubes cool? (I was planing on using the gray tube stuff with a slit on the side you just push the tubing into)
Is there a specific type of radiator I should be looking for to push the maximum amount of cold air?
Is there any other problems you can forsee with a setup like this?
I'm guessing that once I cool the 10-20 gallons of coolant I'll have in a tank inside the freezer it will be very difficult to heat that coolant up much, even if I never turned my system off.
To prevent condensation I'm thinking that it would be a good idea to seal off my case to prevent water build up. in wich case I would probably duct my PSU intake to the outside air.
thats it fire away!
Now you have a almost unlimited supply of coolant that is at or below freezing. now you could probably directly cool your cpu with such a setup. and it would probably work fairly well. but I'm not really interested in cooling the cpu exclusively, I'm looking to cool everything in my case. so my idea was to take that coldass water that I've got comming into my case and run it into a radiator with a 120 on it effectivly blowing icy cold air all over inside my case. It would appear as if this could have some serious potential to cool.
now,
Will a normal water cooling pump like I see forsale everywere be able to push water effectivly through about 40 foot of tubing plus a radiator? (fairly big dia tubing I'm shooting for probably 3/8 or more?)
Is there a specific type of insulation that works the best for keeping the tubes cool? (I was planing on using the gray tube stuff with a slit on the side you just push the tubing into)
Is there a specific type of radiator I should be looking for to push the maximum amount of cold air?
Is there any other problems you can forsee with a setup like this?
I'm guessing that once I cool the 10-20 gallons of coolant I'll have in a tank inside the freezer it will be very difficult to heat that coolant up much, even if I never turned my system off.
To prevent condensation I'm thinking that it would be a good idea to seal off my case to prevent water build up. in wich case I would probably duct my PSU intake to the outside air.
thats it fire away!