adam fulton
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I have done a lot of research and have found that air is better than Liquid. Most say that is true some say it is not. The laws of thermal dynamics would suggest a long with the laws of physics that liquid should be far better than air cooling. I think I have the answer. When I look at liquid cooling systems they are very basic to what I thought they would be like. All it is a few tubes, a contact point for the CPU a radiator with a few fans on it. Now the liquid should pull more heat off the CPU (and what ever else you are liquid cooling) way more effectively, but the radiator only ends up pushing atmosphere temperature air against it. Therefor if your room is 90 degrees then the cooling will be lass effective than 70 degrees. Now that holds true for air cooling to. The line I am going for here is the liquid cooling is not at all what I thought it was.
I was thinking that was more like an air conditioner (for the simplest explanation.) In an air conditioner you have a few things going on, a high pressure (psi) pump circulates the coolant creating hot high psi liquid. The high psi you want for later but the high temp you don't, so the coolant goes through a condenser which cools the coolant but keeps it high psi. Next the cool high psi coolant goes through a smaller orifice than the line is, the high pressure is ejected through the orifice and turns the coolant to low psi vapor than since it goes from a high psi to a low psi the temperature goes way down. The smaller the orifice the cooler the coolant. Next the low psi cold coolant (in vapor form) goes through an evaporator which turns the vapor back to a liquid keeping it low psi and cold now a liquid instead of a vapor. This cold low psi part is what I thought the coolant would be as it cycles through the PC. This would significantly increase the performance of the cooling system.
This is however not how it is done and I could not find a system that does do this. Now you might say that is because the lines with get condensation this can be fixed with a drier which one of the things that a refrigerated trailer for semis would have along with a few other things. Bottom line it would be possible to create such a system for cooling PCs. However I have not found one, it might just be completely over kill to have such a system, but for OC/bragging rights (which is pretty much any PC worth more than 2,500$) it would be useful. If you could keep the CPU below freezing even while under heavy load you could OC a lot more (again pointless past a point.) I was just kind of surprised such a system does not exist at all (as far as I could find.)
I am going to be building a PC in the next few months just trying to get all the research and part I need to know how much I need to save. To add, is keeping your CPU at very low temps even increase performance? I am not taking about for OC just say a stock i7 where normal gaming temps are like 100c or what ever is normal. I do know that the lower the temp the lower the resistance but that be more towards -100f. I am just more expressing an idea that may or may not exist or could be or has been done. I really want that bragging right that I made such a cooling system but only if it is necessary and in this case for OC (skylake i7.)
I just feel like I have rambled enough. Any thoughts or ideas or whatever please share. I would at the very least like to know if I could make such a system would it keep a i7 6700k cool even if it is normal operating temps at a OC of +2-3? Because the 6700k is quad core I would think that OC it would be useful along with the GPUs which would also get the cooling. I am new to the world of Pc modifying and my knowledge is limited but I find that I learn thing very fast as long as I get good feedback on what I do and don't understand which is where forums come in handy. So any thoughts, ideas, or whatever feel free to share. yes I do tend to over explain and ramble.
I was thinking that was more like an air conditioner (for the simplest explanation.) In an air conditioner you have a few things going on, a high pressure (psi) pump circulates the coolant creating hot high psi liquid. The high psi you want for later but the high temp you don't, so the coolant goes through a condenser which cools the coolant but keeps it high psi. Next the cool high psi coolant goes through a smaller orifice than the line is, the high pressure is ejected through the orifice and turns the coolant to low psi vapor than since it goes from a high psi to a low psi the temperature goes way down. The smaller the orifice the cooler the coolant. Next the low psi cold coolant (in vapor form) goes through an evaporator which turns the vapor back to a liquid keeping it low psi and cold now a liquid instead of a vapor. This cold low psi part is what I thought the coolant would be as it cycles through the PC. This would significantly increase the performance of the cooling system.
This is however not how it is done and I could not find a system that does do this. Now you might say that is because the lines with get condensation this can be fixed with a drier which one of the things that a refrigerated trailer for semis would have along with a few other things. Bottom line it would be possible to create such a system for cooling PCs. However I have not found one, it might just be completely over kill to have such a system, but for OC/bragging rights (which is pretty much any PC worth more than 2,500$) it would be useful. If you could keep the CPU below freezing even while under heavy load you could OC a lot more (again pointless past a point.) I was just kind of surprised such a system does not exist at all (as far as I could find.)
I am going to be building a PC in the next few months just trying to get all the research and part I need to know how much I need to save. To add, is keeping your CPU at very low temps even increase performance? I am not taking about for OC just say a stock i7 where normal gaming temps are like 100c or what ever is normal. I do know that the lower the temp the lower the resistance but that be more towards -100f. I am just more expressing an idea that may or may not exist or could be or has been done. I really want that bragging right that I made such a cooling system but only if it is necessary and in this case for OC (skylake i7.)
I just feel like I have rambled enough. Any thoughts or ideas or whatever please share. I would at the very least like to know if I could make such a system would it keep a i7 6700k cool even if it is normal operating temps at a OC of +2-3? Because the 6700k is quad core I would think that OC it would be useful along with the GPUs which would also get the cooling. I am new to the world of Pc modifying and my knowledge is limited but I find that I learn thing very fast as long as I get good feedback on what I do and don't understand which is where forums come in handy. So any thoughts, ideas, or whatever feel free to share. yes I do tend to over explain and ramble.
