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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    When I say room temperature I mean the water temp goes up from sitting in your lines. say theres 50L of cold water in your cold water lines and pressure tank(you live in the country as you said) all that water is going to get up to room temperature eventually, pending where and how it's run...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    this hole topic is speculation, i am unable to find liquid cooling parts so for my current PC so ill keep it fan cooled but next next build say 2 years from now will be liquid cooled even if i have to order from the states. to be honest unless someone was using the washmachine or flushing alot...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    Yea I am having problems blowing up that diagram to be more visible, but due to code and contamination concerns you can't have your plumbing run through your PC what I am doing instead is using a heat exchanger which essentially is a rad with two loops running next to each other to transfer heat...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    the pressure of your water main weather supplied by pump or gravity(water towers) would be on the potable side of the heat exchanger though, which would be supplied by 3/4" pex lines for more volume. the domestic side(PC side) would be under the same pressure any other liquid setup would...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    Why do you feel it needs a rad if hooked up to your water lines? I do like that idea because it keeps the system completely seperate from the potable water meaning no need for a heat exchanger but it also means I need to expand my pump size to travel the distance(im not sure how big a pump you...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    you mean place the heat exchanger in somthing like a sump pit? thats not a bad idea except for the possibility of contamination from the stagnent water to your potable water. depends how much you trust your joints to never leak i suppose. I don't see distances being the problem, I can place the...
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    Liquid cooling through home plumbing.

    has anyone liquid cooled there PC through a heat exchanger on there homes plumbing cold water supply? By trade I am a licensed plumber. I have installed a few boiler heating systems.. so here's my idea. Building your liquid cooled rig as usual, from your PC you then have the supply and return...
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    Picking the right set up for my gaming rig.

    I use multiple monitors one is a 42" 1080p TV the other just an old soon to be replaced monitor. I often like to run movies and such as I game. I already purchased the MB so at this point im stuck with 2011 socket making me kinda limited in CPU's I know I am going over kill on this computer but...
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    Picking the right set up for my gaming rig.

    Hey guys. I have always wanted to build a gaming rig, I finally got around to starting it I have my motherboard, case and a SSD. 6 months ago i purchased a gigabyte GTX500TI for my current computer, I wasn't planning to build a rig yet. I wanted to purchase with my rig a HD 7850 plenty of good...