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Originally Posted by Geoc
I don't understand why you would want a chiller. Most water chillers are designed to fight ambient temp, not an active load of 400w in the water.
Water chillers aren't popular for a reason, thats because even if you do it properly and have a powerful enough chiller, you'll probably see 5-10C below ambient.
You should really try out watercooling by itself before leaping into water chillers.
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And after doing further research into it I agree, condensation scares me and isnt worth the risk of a chiller if I'm not planing on doing some extreme OCing.
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Originally Posted by 3klipze
Water chilled?
Just mineral oil your rig in a fish tank. Done.
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Part of the challenge I presented to this thread was so that I can use a solution that works for my current case that I want to reuse, I love my wooden case.
Also for the sake of discussion, using a water chillier on a submerged fish tank set up would be a perferct combo, chilling the fluid in the tank with out the risk of condensation, you could drop the heat down as low as you wanted to(relatively).
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Originally Posted by G-spec
There's a case you can buy on ncix that does exactly what you want, look it up, its the only $1000 case on the website
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As I said, I am not divorcing my current case. I did look it up, and it looks pretty good from a functional standpoint. As I mentioned in the start of the thread I wouldn't let my budget for cooling go passed $400, $1000 for a case Is out of the question. What's worse is that you can only use a specific list of motherboards, and it says nothing if a haswell system is compatible.
But thank you for the suggestion, it's always good to know what's out there.
I'm going to run some tests today, I want to see what kind of temperature change there is in my room with the PC off, on, and under load. I know it pushes a lot of heat, but maybe not enough for me to be going this far to compensate. My projector's bulb pushes a ton more heat then anything else.