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This is kind of a random thing I thought of the other day.

Imagine a box that covers all the fins (not the pipes, except for the pipes that are inside the fins) of the Hyper 212 and inside that box is water... Connected to the box are standard watercooling tubing, one for in and one for out... Then you just have a pump to continually circulate the water, no need for a rad or a res.

Would that be possible? Or even feasible?
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This is kind of a random thing I thought of the other day.
Imagine a box that covers all the fins (not the pipes, except for the pipes that are inside the fins) of the Hyper 212 and inside that box is water... Connected to the box are standard watercooling tubing, one for in and one for out... Then you just have a pump to continually circulate the water, no need for a rad or a res.
Would that be possible? Or even feasible?


It would be possible. It just would not nearly as effective as just regular liquid cooling.

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post #3 of 11

I've had a similar idea as this except you clip the ends off the heatpipes and connect them with hoses and run water through them with a pump and them run fans on the heatsink as normal and add a rad if it isn't enough.

    
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I suppose it would be possible but with out at lest a rad you would just be recercalating hot water. There would be know way for the water to cool down.
 
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Hmm... So what if you combined it with a rad and some fans then? The Hyper would then just act as a block. Think that would be more effective? You would have a greater surface area for the water to grab heat from.
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Biggest problem is how much weight do you think the socket can hold, nvm that I think its the really hard way of watercooling? That much water could rip the socket right out. Given the already existing weight problems with big heatsinks, exacerbate this with a pint/liter of fluid on top and you have a big issue.
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Biggest problem is how much weight do you think the socket can hold, nvm that I think its the really hard way of watercooling? That much water could rip the socket right out. Given the already existing weight problems with big heatsinks, exacerbate this with a pint/liter of fluid on top and you have a big issue.

Well, what if the box was attached to the top of the case? You could run a support beam or two down from the top that would take all the weight.
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Well, what if the box was attached to the top of the case? You could run a support beam or two down from the top that would take all the weight.


That's only good for one axis. What do you do when you have to move the case? You can't shake the case now during bleeding etc.

That said, if you ask any CFD expert, they will tell you that the best way of transferring heat via water is directly at the surface, directly on the die is where the water should touch. Realistically we can't do that and use waterblocks which for practical purposes gets the water as close as possible for us. Given this, moving the water very far from the source of heat seems quite counter to the ideal doesn't it?
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That's only good for one axis. What do you do when you have to move the case? You can't shake the case now during bleeding etc.
That said, if you ask any CFD expert, they will tell you that the best way of transferring heat via water is directly at the surface, directly on the die is where the water should touch. Realistically we can't do that and use waterblocks which for practical purposes gets the water as close as possible for us. Given this, moving the water very far from the source of heat seems quite counter to the ideal doesn't it?

My oh my, aren't we a pessimist today? Its quite possible, the question is how effective or efficient it would be at cooling or is it worth all the work/cost to do? Any other minor problems can be solved by other solutions. Of course as tsm106 stated, it all depends on how efficient the Hyper 212 is with bringing the heat out.
   
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a more effective way to do something creative with water would be to make your own water block with bigger, thinner fins that maintain the speed of the water but also introduce the perfect amount of turbulence in the water for it to carry heat away from the processor effectively. remember: water does not conduct heat, it only moves it via convection.
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