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Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip Tyler August | usagoldmines.com

If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries the heat-removing fluid. What if you just…didn’t? That’s what [TrashBench] asked with his direct water cooling experiment. Instead of integrated pump or copper water block, he just epoxied a 3D printed pipe fitting onto his bare GPU and CPU.

The results are interesting: while the directly-cooled GPU outperforms the professional system by a decent margin, the same technique fails when applied to the CPU. It also leaks and nearly ruins his hardware, but those are the risks you take when doing mad science, and it’s nothing more epoxy can’t fix. In any case, the fact that directly exposing chips to liquid can cool them down isn’t exactly a revelation. People have been dunking computers in oil for years, but the fact that he sees such a difference between CPU and GPU is quite interesting. [TrashBench] has his own theory in the video, but what do you think is going on here?

In any case, if he continues his direct cooling experiments he’s still going to need a radiator, and if we may be so bold, we would like to recommend a giant metal snake.

 

This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak

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