How to download a water cooled pc

You also can buy the parts piecemeal, but we suggest using a kit for your first water-cooled setup. A water-cooling system includes a water block, hoses, pump, reservoir, and an external or internal radiator.

Make sure you buy a kit that fits your PC's motherboard. It took us about an hour to hook up a Zalman Reserator 2. Preparing your machine is the hardest part. Before you can hook up your water-cooling kit, you must remove your computer's motherboard. That means opening up the case, and unplugging all cards and cables from the board. Make sure whenever you unplug cards and cables, you pull from the connector, not the wire to keep the two from ripping apart.

Note: Take careful note of the setup, as you'll have to reconnect everything later. Once the motherboard is loose, unclip and remove the heat sink. This will have a fan and is in the center of the chip. Make sure not to rip the chip straight off the motherboard. Use a gentle twist and slide motion because the thermal paste already on the chip makes a tight bond. Then clean the top of the exposed chip with an alcohol wipe and apply thermal paste a conductive metal- or silicone-based grease that should come with the kit.

Pictured here: The heat sink after it is removed, cleaned and the water block is attached see step 3. Install the water block using the provided mounting bracket. The mounting bracket will sandwich the mother board with a bracket on the bottom and top connected with two screws.

As always, and especially with electronics, don't over-tighten the screws. Pictured: Hoses attached from your water pump and radiator see step four will take away heated liquid from the water block and replace it with cooler liquid.

Next, put the motherboard back in the case, and reconnect all cables and cards. Additionally, a stop valve might come in handy for loop maintenance. However, they do look rather impressive, and make it a lot easier to fill a water-cooled system than using other methods.

You will, however, always need a pump to ensure that the fluid within your system is fl owing, and pulling heat away from your core components and out to the radiators. Additionally, you should always have your pump gravity fed meaning fluid should always be flowing down into it.

The only option you have is to use radiators. You can do this however you like, either by utilising separate loops for your GPUs and CPUs or by combining the two together into one single loop. FPI stands for fins per inch. Current page: Why water-cool you PC? North America. Page 1 of 2: Why water-cool you PC?

Planning your water-cooling loop. By the way you write I will assume it is neither 1 or 3, so it must, logically be 2 although some of your spelling sucks. So maybe 3 after all Also you are constantly insulting me to try and prove you nonvalid point, this is a sign of immaturity, or foolishness, or both even without the nonvalid point.

You decide. It's rather amusing that you are talking about maturity, because your response is as immature as they come. By attempting to attack my character, you are clearly on the defensive. Furthermore, you are only 18, and no viable judge of character. When you look back 10 years you will see what I mean.

I never insulted you, and if you find my comment offensive, the only one insulting you is in the mirror. You mention the freezing point of sodium chloride. You better work on your basic observational skills because I said sodium, not sodium chloride. If you think the freezing point of sodium is higher than room temperature in a solution, I invite you to go to the beach sometime. Or put sodium-chloride in a glass of water to peak dissolution and not very clearly that it will not freeze at room temperature.

You are clearly mistaking the difference between a solid-to-liquid state and a melting point. My spelling sucks? Maybe as you are making your salt-water solution, take time to peruse a dictionary as well. Enough with you and your ridiculous attempt to incense me. Your grasp of science is weak and so is your grasp of social behavior, and I will have no part of it any further.

Get your last word because you must , and don't expect me to play this game with you because I know better. Come to a debate when you have gained ten years of maturity which doesn't necessarily mean ten years of age. When you can see my response as anything other than a personal attack, your suggestions will be noted Hmnn, maturity.

Ok, I stated what was logical to assume from your extremely sarcastic last paragraph. Admittedly, after that in the parentheses I did get a bit sarcastic myself, but nowhere near the level you seemed to be at. Furthermore, you continually make threats of ceased communication, and neither follow through, nor apologize. Also, as I said, instead of stating facts to prove your points You said a few things that were untrue, and concurred with a few of the things I said while trying to make it look like I said the opposite, and then a few accurate statements, which were obvious.

Try entering any of the issues we are debating on into Google, etc. You certainly won't get anything along the lines of "Water has no reactivity with anything else known to man.

It is easy to find a particular 5 year old child that is more mature than some octogenarians. If that is what you were stating. Experience comes with age. Maturity is entirely unrelated.

Explain, please, in what way my reply was immature, or in what way it attacked you character. I merely set up the three likely possibilities as to why you would be responding the way you began to, and ordered them from most to least likely. You on the other hand, in reply, essentially pulled an adult version of the child's "Bounces off me and sticks to you!

I am not saying that you are immature, but you certainly are acting like it. True it could be that you are just having a bad day, but that's psychology, and still no excuse. I mentioned both sodium and sodium chloride, because I realize that they dissociate into separate ions in solution, and you seemed to be implying that because an ionic compound was dissolved, that it was melted.

This is incorrect. An ionic compound in solution, is, as I said, dissociated, not melted. As for the sodium which I DID mention I have been using caps because you seem to be skimming my replies and skipping things Not even remotely near or below the freezing point of water. I did so by referring you to the colligative properties of solutions, which you apparently still haven't looked up. You resort to calling me a little boy, and then imply that you are far wiser than I am, me being obviously practically and infant It seems insulting to me and would as well to most logical people.

It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I don't think this is what was meant. How have I attacked you personally or otherwise? I merely requested that you stop attacking me and pondered why you would feel the need to do so. You're clearly both immature, and Prometheus, if you were really that mature to point out those flaws he has and not ending the argument sooner, that just proves you aren't as mature as you say you are.

Cyto, you are the most immature having to retaliate at everything he says and say hes stupid, not right, or anything like that. I ended this discussion quite some time ago. I am stating fact while dissenters choose to deny it. Maturity has little to do with it.

I've let this go, it is up to you to decide when they have let this go sooner. Just because some people can't concede a wrongful point is no fault of mine. I state what I know and defend my experience. I will not have some half-witted neo-scientist go off on me with facts they drew up on a napkin in the middle-school cafeteria.

Maturity is subjective, and as I have pointed out, I have no further interest in butting heads with such a thick skull. You seem to mistake my repeated attempts to end this so-called argument as a continuance of such. I will exert no further effort into this thread regarding this particular subject. I have better teachings to spread than proving an obvious scientific fact here. If this were my board, this topic would be locked and closed, forbidding any further postings.

This is where it should stay, and will from today forward. This thread is ended here and now, do not reply. No interest is placed regarding this subject any further except by the extraordinarily-immature who need the last word. Reply 6 years ago. All right, I was fine reading these insane comments until now. I was a reactor mechanic for the Navy. I work on reactors. The water used as coolant in a fission reactor however is very good at what it does. The only things added to the coolant are there to reduce oxygen content and to maintain a slightly basic pH.

If it's good enough for a multi-megawatt reactor, it's good enough for your rinky-dink pc. Out of curiosity, why is a basic pH beneficial? Is this for inhibiting corrosion or biological growth or some other reason? Flow rate tends to be over-emphasized in PC cooling. For the majority of loops, effective flow rates higher than 1.

A reliable pump is important, as is making sure it's strong enough to keep adequate flow through your selected components. But for users looking to improve thermal performance, increasing radiator size and airflow is almost always more effective. Keep in mind that the maximum flow rate listed for pumps is at zero static head pressure, while the maximum static head is at zero flow rate.

That means the actual flow rate in a cooling system will usually be quite a bit lower than the pump's maximum specification. The primary purpose of a reservoir is to bleed air from the loop and to store extra liquid to reduce maintenance. It won't assist with cooling aside from delaying the time required to reach maximum heat saturation. Reservoirs are also a good opportunity to show off your water cooling system.

The size and type of reservoir is based solely on aesthetics and available space. A large, LED-lit reservoir with UV colored coolant mounted against a side window or front drive bay will be highly visible.

Tubing is based on allowable space and personal preference. Your fittings will follow the hose size you choose. Be sure that both the ID internal diameter and OD outer diameter of your fittings match your selected hose size. Hose barbs, unlike compression fittings, will accept different outer diameters by changing the clamp the ID must still match.