ice/water cooling system

lol, and i thought i was suprised when i first saw toilet watercooler

so water would form outside of the tubes inside the case?

how could i "Safe guard" it from condensation?

i think a dehumidifier would take away most of the moisture.

could i rap the hoses in something.....

I'm curious as to how you expect the ice not to thaw and leak out the gaps around your tubing or just thaw period and have to take great pains to refreeze it?

Or are you planning to keep the bottles in a freezer somehow and run the tubing through holes in the walls of the freezer to keep that chilly temp. Also what Mpilchfamily said about condensation. Ice cold and you'll run into probs with that.

To Assman: OMFG man!! It took me what felt like 10 minutes to see your tags cycle all the way through. How many is that? On the other hand some T&A while forum browsing is right up my alley as well so woot!

I'm no expert in physics... don't know your flow how cold the ice is going to be...
but i was thinking that it may be possible that the water won't go don't below room temperature... but the heat removed from the CPU could be equal to the amount of heat absorbed by the ice.

but i just think that it will work for 5 min then after the ice has melted you system will overheat.

just my 2¢

Woot to wood and computers.

You would have to coat your CPU connections with dielectric grease, put a neoprene foam pad around your waterblocks, and use a surficant (like a very thin layer of silicone) to waterproof your mainboard. You can also surround your tubing with neoprene foam so it does not come into direct contact with the air in your computer, but you would still have to take waterproofing precautions with your waterblock.

The trashcan/radiator idea would work, and you can keep adding ice to the trashcan to keep the water cool when the ice starts to melt.

The two liter bottle would work, but not efficiently, since you want the water to dump as much heat as possible into the ice, and a single pass round tube would not do a very good job. Now, if you were to freeze a radiator inside the bottle and then pass cooling fluid through it (you would have to use antifreeze, or the fluid would gel up and your pump would not be able to move it), I could see this as being efficient, at least until the ice melts.