General Question

[Drexel]

I dont have the money for watercooling (wish I did), so this is just a 'General Question'.

Has anyone ever tried putting a normal air cooled heatsink ontop of a GPU water block? (the block would be those with the tube things on the side) Don't know how you would set it up, but it sounds pretty cool.

 

[svol]

Why would you do that? With the waterblock between the heatsink and the core you will have a huge blockade of heat flow. Unless you also use the waterblock ofcourse.

But waterblocks generaly don't get very hot (just a couple of C above ambient) because with enough water flow the warm water can get away fast enough.

But I saw this used when someone was doing some extreme overlocking with watercooling and a peltier. He did this because with the added peltier the heat build-up increased very much.

To conclude: for a normal watercooling this is kinda useless, but in some cases it can help.

My CPU fan spins so fast that it creates a wormhole 😱

 

[knowan]

I think that drexel is thinking about catastrophic water pump failure. Concievably once the water stops flowing then the waterblock could get very hot.

But seriously the rise in temp would be slow enough that the mobo will catch it and shut down the PC before anything bad happens. Asuming that you set this up in the bios.

I once knew someone who modded standard heatsinks into waterblocks. He'd encase the heatsink in a hollowed out block of lucuite, then run the water through it. He got surprisingly good results from them. Unfortunatly he went out of busness shortly after the dot-com bust.

He was also experimenting with direct water cooling. He would encase the CPU in a hollowed out block of lucite and run water directly over the core, with nothing between the core and the water. Exceptionally good results but very difficult to set up and of course once he epoxied the lucite into place it could never be removed. He never offered any of those for sale.

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[Drexel]

I once knew someone who modded standard heatsinks into waterblocks. He'd encase the heatsink in a hollowed out block of lucuite, then run the water through it. He got surprisingly good results from them.

I was thinking of how well that would work, Im sure something like the MCX462 would be a great candidate for this.. Someone with lucite and money should try it and tell us

 

[svol]

You know I though about modding a heatsink into a waterblock too when I was working on a thermo-electrics project for school. I concluded it was to much a pain in the ass and making a waterblock with some pieces of copper was way easier.

My CPU fan spins so fast that it creates a wormhole 😱