passively Liquid Cooling a Computer

[gamerguy319]

Hello I have a small burning question in my head and i hope you all here could give your thoughts. I recently came across the Silverstone raven RVZ01, when I saw this i got the dumb idea of putting a custom liquid cooling loop inside of it. Given a DDC pump and the swiftech micro rez and a black ice 120mm and 240mm radiators(30mm thick for both) would it be possible to cool an i7 and a gtx 970 without the use of fans? what about a single 120mm? would a 30mm thick radiator and a 25mm fan fit under the now single slot width of the GPU?

 

[norseman4]

Without airflow through the fins, radiators won't work to disperse heat. If you have enough positive pressure inside your case, and the radiators are the only means for air to escape, then maybe, possibly, it could conceivably be done, but more than likely not.

 

[gamerguy319]

i was thinking, since hot air rises, if the case were oriented in such a way that through natural convection, air inside the case would be heated up by the radiator, then rise out of the case. would that be able to crate enough airflow to be able to dissipate all that heat?

 

[Gam3r01]

Not even close. Natural convection is minimal in PCs, especially since you are removing convection by using water cooling. You simply move the heat exchange somewhere else (The radiator). Even give that, any half decent SP fan has to push tens of cubic feet of air per minute to keep up with the radiator cooling.

The air moving via convection, if you had any, probably couldnt even get through the radiator fins.

Passive cooling a computer is not viable with high end hardware, or really at all in general. Add liquid cooling in there, and its impossible.

 

[gamerguy319]

What about those scythe 15mm thick fans... for all intents and purposes overclocking would not be done. Would three of those be enough?

 

[Gam3r01]

Im not too terribly familiar with the case, however from what I see I cant recommend any configuration involving water cooling.