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Anyone know a good small water chiller?

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December 6, 2009 3:50:00 PM

Well, I'm looking at liquid cooling systems, and I think I've found one, bu I would like to get a water chiller to go with it, or just get a water chiller that can do the job of both at a reasonable price, I can't find any for PCs online, and I was wondering if you guys knew of anything that may help me out!

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a c 86 K Overclocking
December 6, 2009 4:28:23 PM

I'll point you in this direction. One guys chiller home made for under $300 only uses about $20 of electricity a month to stay sub ambient on temp, he's not going for super chilling.

I saw a beer bar chiller once, was upwards of $1000. Your biggest issue is cooling the amount of heat your rig makes. You didn't mention what your cooling or what you want your CPU temps to be.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=...

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December 6, 2009 5:44:19 PM

Well, I'm trying to cool me CPU and my GPU too, but I'm not gonna go to the GPU till I upgrade or find a block at a good price. I want to keep my CPU temps around 25-30C load, it's a Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.4GhZ
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a b K Overclocking
December 6, 2009 6:01:24 PM

panzerkiller13 said:
Well, I'm trying to cool me CPU and my GPU too, but I'm not gonna go to the GPU till I upgrade or find a block at a good price. I want to keep my CPU temps around 25-30C load, it's a Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.4GhZ



Its called an air conditioner....

Buy a 5000 btu unit, take off the case and bend the pipes so that you can get the evaporator into a cooler. Make sure the cooler is really insulated and drill some holes for the intake and exhaust of the watercooler.

Then put some tubing in there and hooke the pump to the intake pipe.

Should hold about -5c on load. Maybe even -10 to -15c with a phenom by itself.
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December 7, 2009 8:02:57 PM

I've seen a thread on here I believe (very old now) where a guy used an AC in the way overshocked described above and even went into detail on how he did it. I'll see if i can maybe find a link to it
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a b K Overclocking
December 8, 2009 8:35:07 PM

^Yeah, I remember that too. IIRC it was in 2005 or 2006.
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a b K Overclocking
December 8, 2009 11:19:17 PM

Its not that difficult, next time i make a phase change system ill make a guide to do a slush box.
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a c 337 K Overclocking
December 9, 2009 1:30:04 PM

Saw a guy that had one in a 5 gallon bucket... these types of projects are never 'pretty' but performance wise...he was running far below ambient.
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