pond pump for liquid cooling

[94blue302gt]

Ok, there are a pluthera of water pumps for fountains/ponds that have pretty good pumping numbers for the system, but they all have a system that makes them have to sit on the bottom of the tank or whatever, not a direct feed. I'm not going to just put this pump in a pan of water and let it pump everything through and then just have it dump again! Is there a better solution? Or do i just have to buy an actual 12v pump? The reason i ask is cuz i can pick these things up for liike 12 bucks no problem, and they pump pretty good.

 

[surf2di4]

if your going to use it for an evaporative style water tower and basiclly have it running all the time sure why not. then u can have it sit in the bottom of the tower where its submerged and not worry about it. just like a swamp cooler.
SO my 2cents anyway. 8O

 

[94blue302gt]

i'd rather have a closed loop i guess, kids could knock it over. It has to be semi- portable, as in, once a year I take it to an auction type deal and run some simple software.

 

[94blue302gt]

does a pond pump have to be completely submerged?
Can it be completely submerged?
Would I be able to build a small box to contain it and the water/mixture and seal it up that way then? I would probably use this as my resevoir as well then. Since it's not a closed loop system, I would have to go with this:
pump=>Radiator=>cpu=>Gpu=>dump to resevoir with pump

Do I have this all correct now?

 

[surf2di4]

hey some pond pumps do not require submersion. but most do. and your order or things is a little off. it should always be pump+cpu+then anything else in the computer+radiator then sump. so you get the most pressure to the cpu first! you could do something like the zalman reserator out of 6" dia. PVC and about a 1 or 2 gals of distilled water and some sort of additive and a submerged pump. the you can use 1/2" tubing which is the most optimal size.

 

[surf2di4]

hey some pond pumps do not require submersion. but most do. and your order or things is a little off. it should always be pump+cpu+then anything else in the computer+radiator then sump. so you get the most pressure to the cpu first! you could do something like the zalman reserator out of 6" dia. PVC and about a 1 or 2 gals of distilled water and some sort of additive and a submerged pump. the you can use 1/2" tubing which is the most optimal size.

 

[shata]

I dunno if i could trust a pond pump what if it fails... i guess you have the bios to shutdown the pc but still it isnt very reliable..

 

[surf2di4]

your right about trusting a pond pump its designed to only work for about 4166 days between failures(if run 12 hours a day only 2100 days if run continuosly) and most computer systems only last about 3 yrs between failures or up grades.

just my $.02

 

[94blue302gt]

your right about trusting a pond pump its designed to only work for about 4166 days between failures(if run 12 hours a day only 2100 days if run continuosly) and most computer systems only last about 3 yrs between failures or up grades.

just my $.02

uhhhhh...
Well, it's a fountain pump, not a pond pump, my computer is run like 4 hours a day, at most 8 a day, and I'm pretty sure that 4166 days is enough for this system, it's a socket A, but I'm going to test it on that for the first few months and then prolly use it on my new system i want to build after I get married in april.

 

[surf2di4]

well now that we know its not a pond pump!!!! the first thing is once your married you will never have enough money to get anything better than a dell computer!!!(J/K) that opens up your options on the sump and pump location. but will still require some manufacturing skills.
but its doable.

best of luck and ya might try ebay i have seen some home-made systems there that looked pretty robust.

sincerely
karl surf2di4

 

[shawnlizzle]

read my water cooling guide, a bit out dated, but the info on the pumps still stand.

 

[94blue302gt]

I did read the guide, i'm going to use that for my selection of the pump.

And i'm saving extra money for this system, she doesn't need to know about it...
No, she's cool, she knows i love my computers, i'm even giving her one with a 1.8 Pentium 256 ram and two 20 gig hard drives. No vid card, but seriously, what is she gonna do with it? She's not into games, and she finger types. But yeah, She knows i gotta have my toys... computer, mustang, and her.

Anyways, I was going to take an old psu that is fried and see if i can mount it up towards the top and take up two drives or something, put the pump in there and seal it up with a filler with a cork type of thing, and i guess from there it would go through the water blocks and then get cooled? I figure you would want it to get cooled and then put it through the water blocks.

 

[mandy99]

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[rubix_1011]

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