Water Cooling and Phase Change Hardware?

[rockit00]

I have not been following the cooling scene very closely in recent years. I recently acquired an Oasis hot and cold water dispenser. The cabinet was pretty much worthless so I stripped out the compressor the evaporator and hot tank plus all the wiring and switches and thermal controls. Everything is pretty much intact. So I rigged it up and plugged it in. I didn't hear a sound, but after a few minutes the hot tank got Hot, really Hot. The chiller head took a little longer to show any reaction. It began to frost up in the open air. The first thing that crossed my mind was Overclocking and Brewing Tea at the same time. Are water chillers, phase change coolers and similar hardware still relevant in 2020?

 

[Solaris17]

Almost have to say your asking the wrong crowd. If you want to go that deep into performance tweaking who can tell you it isn’t relevant? If your looking to extreme OC and push crazy frequencies and voltage you’ll need all the help you can get.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Are water chillers, phase change coolers and similar hardware still relevant in 2020?

They might actually be becoming more relevant. As core densities increase, cooling needs to increase as well - that is - the temperature delta may need to increase to allow these CPU's and GPU's to run free.

 

[rockit00]

I haven't personally thought much about extreme cooling since the old Pentium 4 and the Netburst architecture. I used to drool over the Asetek VapoChill XE II Liquid cooled PC case. When the Conroe series appeared I decided to stick with Air cooling and modest overclocking. Especially after the OCZ phase change cooler fiasco. I'm sure the HWbot crew has something to say about its relevance.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

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[Deleted member 185158]

I have not been following the cooling scene very closely in recent years. I recently acquired an Oasis hot and cold water dispenser. The cabinet was pretty much worthless so I stripped out the compressor the evaporator and hot tank plus all the wiring and switches and thermal controls. Everything is pretty much intact. So I rigged it up and plugged it in. I didn't hear a sound, but after a few minutes the hot tank got Hot, really Hot. The chiller head took a little longer to show any reaction. It began to frost up in the open air. The first thing that crossed my mind was Overclocking and Brewing Tea at the same time. Are water chillers, phase change coolers and similar hardware still relevant in 2020?

The system has a restriction.

Chillers and phase change is relevant to those that get into it.....

To be more accurate to what would suffice, it would be helpful to know what Cpu you're trying to cool before determining if it's worth the hassles.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

They might actually be becoming more relevant. As core densities increase, cooling needs to increase as well - that is - the temperature delta may need to increase to allow these CPU's and GPU's to run free.

I have had it in mind to try reusing a couple of reground GPU waterblockes a spare 360 rad and tecs to get temps back down to or closer to ambient , controlled, I have an Mcube that should do 4x20watts , don't want to go crazy initially it's just to hit ambient.

 

[DR4G00N]

I have not been following the cooling scene very closely in recent years. I recently acquired an Oasis hot and cold water dispenser. The cabinet was pretty much worthless so I stripped out the compressor the evaporator and hot tank plus all the wiring and switches and thermal controls. Everything is pretty much intact. So I rigged it up and plugged it in. I didn't hear a sound, but after a few minutes the hot tank got Hot, really Hot. The chiller head took a little longer to show any reaction. It began to frost up in the open air. The first thing that crossed my mind was Overclocking and Brewing Tea at the same time. Are water chillers, phase change coolers and similar hardware still relevant in 2020?

Water dispensers have very small compressors so they're pretty useless to cool with, even a middle of the road cpu will output more heat than it could handle.

Hailea water chillers are popular for an easy above/sub-ambient chiller setup (sub-zero too if you mod them).

I personally use an old 5000btu window A/C unit modified into a waterchiller for XOC since it was free (runs down to about -20 to -25c).

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Mine was made from a dehumidifier.

 

[rockit00]

This dispenser has a Samsung CD124C--L1Z2 compressor. I guess it is a common compressor for small refrigerators. I gather that it won't be setting any overclocking records. My frame of reference is the old VapoChill XE II refrigerated case. I recall them overclocking a Pentium 4, 3.46 Extreme Edition and keeping it at -33 C during their testing.