this is when you start thinking... well if a 40mm fan is jet-engine-loud, and an 80mm fan is just leaf-blower loud, and 140mm still spins too fast... maybe I can use a box fan, cardboard, duct tape...
(personally, I have wondered why people didn't do pc system cooling with a car radiator with huge slow fan, a giant reservoir like 5-gal homer bucket with lid or a 55gal drum, and maybe an submersible aquarium pump or two.)
(personally, I have wondered why people didn't do pc system cooling with a car radiator with huge slow fan, a giant reservoir like 5-gal homer bucket with lid or a 55gal drum, and maybe an submersible aquarium pump or two.)
Early PC water cooling was like this. The popular target was heater cores, not giant radiators. Similar idea though.
The reason it’s not popular today is that a 2x140mm AIO can be nearly silent if you’re not obsessing over minimizing temperatures. Even the big air coolers we have today are so good that you barely hear the fans.
You can find some setups with very large radiators (look up the MORA radiator) but it’s all diminishing returns. For a home PC you don’t need anything excessively huge to cool it at reasonable volumes.
In the late 90s I had this. Drilled a hole in my bedroom floor to put the pipes under the house (my dad didn’t seem to mind!). Found a local fabricator that let me use his mill to make a water cooling block. Good times.
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this is when you start thinking... well if a 40mm fan is jet-engine-loud, and an 80mm fan is just leaf-blower loud, and 140mm still spins too fast... maybe I can use a box fan, cardboard, duct tape...
(personally, I have wondered why people didn't do pc system cooling with a car radiator with huge slow fan, a giant reservoir like 5-gal homer bucket with lid or a 55gal drum, and maybe an submersible aquarium pump or two.)
Early PC water cooling was like this. The popular target was heater cores, not giant radiators. Similar idea though.
The reason it’s not popular today is that a 2x140mm AIO can be nearly silent if you’re not obsessing over minimizing temperatures. Even the big air coolers we have today are so good that you barely hear the fans.
You can find some setups with very large radiators (look up the MORA radiator) but it’s all diminishing returns. For a home PC you don’t need anything excessively huge to cool it at reasonable volumes.
In the late 90s I had this. Drilled a hole in my bedroom floor to put the pipes under the house (my dad didn’t seem to mind!). Found a local fabricator that let me use his mill to make a water cooling block. Good times.