Watercooling: The Basics

Guide found here

wow thanks (not being sarcastic)

Finally

What happed to the link, could anyone repost? pretty please?

Link works.

Beat me to it.

this is rlly helpful... the thing is it sounds rlly complicated so im not sure i want to dive into it .

thanks!

The one thing that botherd me is that every one says that antifreeze will not work b/c it does not lubricate and causes corrosion. This is far from the truth. As a person who comes from a family of mechanics I know for a fact that antifreeze has a higher rate of thermal transfer than water. In fact water has the highest specific heat of any other liquid (ie harder to heat and harder to cool). ask any chem teacher and they will tell you that liquid water has a specific heat of 1 (chemistry term for measuring a molecule's ablity to transfer heat on a scale of 0 to 1). this is the highest in chemistry. Anitfreeze is designed to take heat off of solid iron without corrosion and pass that liquid into an all copper/aluminum radiator. The fins of a radiator should be aluminum and the tubing is all copper. if you dont believe that it will lubricate spend $5.00 at pep boys on some radiator fluid and poor some on your hand and tell me that it does not feel like a lubricant. Also the companies that make this stuff make it to preserve all of the rubber hoses and copper and brass fittings. also antifreeze has a boiling point well over 280f. the average car temp is 180f. also you should not use alchol since it has an evaporation temp less than that of room temp. the best combo should be 1 part antifreeze to 3parts water. this way you will not have the bubbles caused by alchol evaporation or natural water evaporation (like a water bottle left in the sun) and this should create longer life for all of the parts in the system. And not one living thing will grow in that stuff. Also it will save you a considerable amount of money over the pricey fluid that they sell on line. Dont mean to knit pick but some info just needs to be corrected.

i want to water cool my ps2 can i do that buy running tube through the heat sinks and run a submersable pump to it,
also what do i have to do to get a submersable pump to work in the system
thanks

Water cool your PS2? This is why I left DevH, posts like this, incredibly stupid, I'l thought out, unresearched bollocks.

LOL!!!

why would you want to watercool your ps2? the only reason i could think of is to eliminate noise, but the fans on the rad, coupled with pump noise and turbulence (?) would probably overpower the existing ones, no matter what! haha i concur with soulburner!

Thats completely stupid, don't wanna spam this sticky with this crap, but I'm really interested in why you would watercool your ps2. If you really don't wanna have that fan on there you could just replace that pos heatsink with prettymuch any other heatsink there is you can buy at a store. They will all be so much better than the one on there. You prob. wouldn't even need the fan. The ps2's cpu dosn't run hot at all.

Truly - a big Zalman heatsink, or maybe a 1U heatsink (I think) would probably do justice on its own, sans fan.

I think a good heavy copper 1u heatsink would do fine. If u've seen the heatsink on the ps2, it's so crappy. just a big piece of aluminum(I think) with about 10 big fins. The fan barely even hits it. It's not there for much.

hehe... im surprised it has fins (honestly!)... coming from sony, i would expect a huge aluminum block... or pyramid... or hexagon...