Agree. I also prefer parallel whenever possible since you're not heating the water multiple times. The better water flow is a nice bonus on top of that.
What expensive equipment did he use? A water pump off Amazon, some water pipes, hot glue and water? You don't need fancy equipment to cut off the ends of the heat pipes, just a cheap saw and a file.
@@ChristopherJones16 That doesnt work since they kinda suck in term of cooling performance :) But using the Cooler as an Evap Coil with a separate condenser coil outside probably would, assuming CPU heat pipes can take the pressure.
I have some feedback for you, no ill intent. I personally like this type of content, kinda like what Jayztwocents and LTT are doing some times. There are sooo so many channels looking at hardware, but there are few channels that are doing this type of content. Too me it seems like this content is also what your fallowers like (based on views). I wont spend my time watching you reviewing a cpu or a graphics card and so on. Because channels like LTT have so much different cards that they can compair to for scale. But if you keep doing this type of videos i will watch all of them.
I have to agree, I mostly just watch the crazy contraptions he makes, its fun to see what will happen given that I will never do these type of things myself lol
Run the pipes in parallel so that freshly cool water hits the ihs from each pipe. The way you had it set up in this video (series), by the time the water would get to the 4th pipe, it should be noticably warmer.
This was my first thought. Put a manifold on each side so that fresh water is delivered to each heat pipe. This should also help bring the pressures down.
It does not work that way. It will be very slightly and it wont make a difference, all water get mixed together so more or less there wont be any difference when it is up and running for a while.
@@fristrm Yes it would work because of the increased flow rate but slower water movement, higher pressure means restricted flow but higher velocity, so you get fewer water molecules flowing faster but spending less time in the block picking up less heat. Lower pressure but same volume means slower flow but more efficient heat transfer.
@@metaleater9 His point is he is an A-hole to people with a lower end GPU. It makes sense to me to use a lower end one for this sort of testing. Why sacrifice a $500 or more unit for this? Side note: He must not be aware that it would be badass to have a custom cooling system instead of being a Sheep and buying one of the few types they have on the market for ridiculous prices.
Hey man I see all the remarks about running them in parallel so there is that. You can give a local plumber a call and ask them to braze that copper for you at the top for very cheap. You wont have any leaking and pressure wonr be a issue. You seem fairly mechanically inclined and could easily do it yourself. Again, love your videos and ideas. No one has said it yet, but this is how you improve the industry. Radical experimentation and having fun at the same time.
Would recomemnd not to loop each pipe. run them in parallel. With looping, you are pushing slightly saturated water to the next loop, and so on .. by forth, there might not be any benefits. So try Parallel feed.
All the water in the loop is more or less the same degree. If you get heavy load fast the water will be a little bit warmer where the CPU is. But all water is mixed together so it does not really matter. Unless you plan to have several radiators and pumps.
Split a big tube to 4 smaller tubes then feed into 4 heatpipes. Then join the 4 output heatpipes into one giant tube. Done. Though pressure might be different for each or the water might have a preference for using one tube more than the other but I guess it'll equalize itself out if all tubes are of the same length.
You cooling experimentation videos have really blown up! Kudos to you for this! On my latest build, I'm just using the Wraith Spire that came bundles with my Ryzen 5 2600x. It's doing the job, but it's fun watching you build more extreme cooling solutions!
If the fan made no difference you could cut the heat pipes shorter. Then put splitters instead of looping back on itself for less overall restriction to flow.
Run the water through the heat pipes in parallel instead of series to try and lower the temperature so the coolant isn't being heated up then passed back through. Pretty cool though.
For sure I didnt want to come across like this was my idea, I have no idea what he said in his video but it for sure looked like he knew what he was doing
I honestly love your current line of videos, you like a mad scientist doing to unthinkable experiments that most people wan to see. Once this i would LOVE to see that others are not doing is TEC cooling, not a over powered TEC system on the cpu, to worry about condensation, but how about putting a small TEC to just get the water cooler, aka, a water chiller setup using a small TEC. I think you are just crazy enough to do it. Or even crazier plugging your cooling loop into an actual water cooler.
Great re-make of the Korean's content, I am sure someone else in the comments has said this but I am not going to go read tham to find out lol, my suggestion for the pipe connection is using a compression fitting or since it is copper, why not solder some hose barbs on the ends of the tubes. Great video I am a tinkerer and love this kind of content
Boy, I just can't wait until they start making processors that get their input power through the heat spreader! I find it funny that you did a better job with a pair of pliers and some hotmelt glue than Corsair did with CAE, high tech materials, precision milling equipment, injection molding and 3-part epoxy on their 2080ti waterblock...............................
Now you have to submerge it inside the acrylic case of water without the hoses attached so the water is not only around the pipes but inside them as well.
A couple ideas on this. I would instead of making one loop through the cooler, I would t off the tubes and have 2 or more paths though the cooler, that way the water passes the CPU only once or twice, depending on how you plumb it (experimenting will be needed to figure out the best way to plumb it). This will reduce the number of passes that the water makes past the CPU to get heated on the first pass, to go back in and get more heated on the second pass, and so on. Also, I had another thought when you said that the fan made no difference and that would be to maybe only modify half of the heat pipes to water cooling and leave the other half as vapour chambers and see if you can have the best of both worlds. Kinda a hybrid cooler, where air can do idle and low use cooling and then water cooling kick in for higher CPU stressing uses.
You should do all of this but with this cooler also submerged in mineral oil so it will have fluid flowing through the heat pipes and have a fan passing mineral oil through the fins. I think it would be interesting what would happen.
Suggestion for you! i know this video is old. Try splitting the water pipe before the air cooler.. there's 4 pipes on left and 4 on right. left is in right is out.... skip the radiator. just cycle water through the air cooler and leave the fan on as the dissipation mechanism. this could be a win for a home brew AIO type of setup as the 4 small pipes shouldn't be very restrictive at all yet the fins on the stack should be able to transfer energy easier with water in the vapor chamber as the vapor change condensation process is quite impressive it actually doesn't hold a candle to real water movement. The reason why manufacturers don't just put water in the air coolers is because it would boil at the compute unit instead of circulating
I like the idea from the standpoint of a pump failure: if the pump goes out, you've got the fins and a fan blowing air over those pipes in addition to the thermal capacity of the water to give you an extra minute or two to shut things down gracefully.
@3:15 your flows are hooked up in sequence, which means the water will be pre-heated before going back in for more heat. Split your flows and run them in parallel, then merge after they're heated. Sequential flow means uneven heating.
The Cooler IS the RADIATOR! Best part of this concept is all you need to do is run water through the heat pipes and the waterblock/radiator (air cooler) does the rest.
I would think that, instead of serial flow, one tube to the next, that a parallel flow would be way superior. That is, a pair of one to 4 manifolds, letting a single (larger) supply tube go into 4 smaller ones, each of which directly connects to one tube. You'd improve overall water flow, and have equal temperatures going in to each of the 4 tubes.
Haha, awesome I have been wondering about doing this! What if you substitute that little radiator with a used pickup or full sized SUV radiator? Maybe run all the pipes in parallel and try some kind of high volume pump... Maybe one also meant for a car or truck but drive it with a big electric motor and V belt (they do make 12v electric automotive water pumps, they aren't meant to run constantly though)! I guess transmission coolers are pretty cheap for their size too($30 for a 15"x10"x3/4" on ebay), maybe test one of those.
Hi! I just subbed to your channel. Why? You make such interesting and original content, playing around with pc. Almost like pc-myth busters. And i really like it!
You are doing al my crazy ideas lol, one thing that you sould have done, is to put the heat pipes in paralel (at least 2 and 2)with a Y coneector, and in this way it sould work whitouth that much pressure. Good content, you have one more sub ;)
Since the fan doesn't change anything, you could just pull all of the fins off and cut the tubes down lower. For the pressure I would change it from an 4 series pipes to a 2 parallel 2 series, or 4 parallel pipes with some splitters. Give the water more volume to go through and not require as much head pressure to force the water through. That shouldn't affect the cooling any but will make it easier on the pump and connections.
i used to make heatpipes and its a right fiddly job ill tell ya !!! but inside there is a copper gauze like a really fine copper mesh also there is the tiniest amount of distilled water and what you have to do from memory is heat the pipe up , but before you do this is solder the top but put a little pin in , when it heats up at the correct time remove heat and tap pin in to seal the solder the the pin into place , sometimes you get it right not all the time .....its amazing how they work , i think trying to pull the gauze out would have given you just that little bit more less restriction , not much mind but might have been enough to give you that extra cooling ....
So the one thing that bothers me is that you are using a radiator. As i remembe, in the chinese/korean/don´tknow video, he did not use a radiator because the heatsink is somehow a radiator by itself. This is too why i do prefer the serial conection. Yes, with a radiator parallel would be better because you get more cool water in and transport away more heat, but this just makes the aircooler into a non standard watercooling heatsink. Without the radiator i think it is better to conect the heatpipes in serial. So the aircooler has more time to cool the water down heatpipe by heatpipe. Obviously it would need a fan. So in other words...with a radiator this setup is totaly useless in my eyes. Without a radiator, things get interesting because this yetup could show if we can skip radiators at all. BTW: Keep up doing your work with all sorts of water cooled air coolers. I realy like this concept and your videos.
you connected the pipes at the top of the air cooler more like serial connection, exits from one and goes into another, already hot water just goes around. connect it in paralel. this will also fix the pressure problem.
It's actually not a bad little hack, considering that 212 evos are to be found anywhere for cheap - and for this purpose you could even get a broken or damaged one. Not a replacement for an actual waterblock, but probably comparable to a cheap one. I think parallel tubing with some simple plastic splitters would help significantly. You'd get a lot more flow and less pressure problems. You could also drastically reduce the size by just cutting it down, since all you really need are some nubs of the remaining heatpipes to connect to. Everything else is superflous.
Fun fun.... TY for content.... if you wanted to try the series parallel swap suggested below, a water / air manifold from a fish tank would make the pluming easy.
It took me two seconds to see his problem. He's circling the water around and with each pass it will warm up, having less differential temp with each loop, therefore picking up less heat. Those heat pipes need to be connected in parallel not series.
if you revisit the air water cooler, try putting the plexiglass against the flat sides of the block, that way water can't escape around and it is forced through the fins.
it would be interesting to make a hybrid air/water cooler that worked ok with just air cooling, but you could turn on/off a pump to circulate water to make it run cooler with a radiator.
Constructive criticism: Running all 4 passes in series is why you had issues with pressure. Since you have 4 pipes you could have run 2 passes in parallel to reduce the pressure needed and doubled volumetric flow rate by effectively doubling your cross-sectional area of pipe. Now, there are a variety of ways to organize your passes and that would be based in how you want to control your thermal distribution and whether you want to run the parallel-flow or counter-flow between the passes.
Great video! But the heat pipes are the CPU's only connection to the fins, once they're cut they don't work at all anymore. Maybe try leaving half the heat pipes as is, and using half for water. That should give the best of both worlds and also give you the option of leaving the pump turned off.
I would like to see the same cooler using soldered copper tubing and a header system so 1 side flowed in and other side flowed out. This would likely improve your pressure and give all tubes fresh equal cooling.
Nice video, but you should've tried connecting the heatpipes in parallel instead, would be less preassure on the entire heatsink, and higher waterflow
was about to say
Agree. I also prefer parallel whenever possible since you're not heating the water multiple times. The better water flow is a nice bonus on top of that.
i was thinking the same thing
i was going to but i couldnt find the correct connector
locally in short time
@@MajorHardware use 3 pairs of Y connectors :) that will give you 4 outputs. could actually give better results that :)
This needs to be framed - "The Internet exists so that you can watch people do this kind of stuff without doing it yourself."
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You said it! Curiosity=SATISFIED! Thanks Major Hardware for doing this stuff. Very cool (just about as cool as the NHU-12 :P)
"i made this cheap cooler as efficient as a NHU-12"
using 300$ in watercooling gear
n freaki price for cooler setup, we must buy air & water cooler
Hahahah exactly my thoughts when i was watching the video, but otherwise cool video, i like experiments 😜.
You can do it with about $70 in hobbyist airbrushing equipment without the Hyper 212 Evo...
Oof
What expensive equipment did he use? A water pump off Amazon, some water pipes, hot glue and water? You don't need fancy equipment to cut off the ends of the heat pipes, just a cheap saw and a file.
Hook it up to a compressor and evaporator and run refrigerant through it.
It can probably help you cool your room too with the fan on lol.
Might as well turn a mini fridge into a computer tower.
@@ChristopherJones16 That doesnt work since they kinda suck in term of cooling performance :)
But using the Cooler as an Evap Coil with a separate condenser coil outside probably would, assuming CPU heat pipes can take the pressure.
it will moist i guarantee it... you dont want to ruin your board right?
They already have those, called phase change coolers for CPU's, you can buy PC cases with them intergrated
I have some feedback for you, no ill intent.
I personally like this type of content, kinda like what Jayztwocents and LTT are doing some times. There are sooo so many channels looking at hardware, but there are few channels that are doing this type of content. Too me it seems like this content is also what your fallowers like (based on views).
I wont spend my time watching you reviewing a cpu or a graphics card and so on. Because channels like LTT have so much different cards that they can compair to for scale.
But if you keep doing this type of videos i will watch all of them.
saw this idea in a korean channel. it has quite a number of views so he most likely got the idea there.
@@zodiacfml ..he says that in the beginning of the video.. someone shared that video with him, so he gave it a shot, in English..
I love these water cooling designs, please keep them coming!
I have to agree, I mostly just watch the crazy contraptions he makes, its fun to see what will happen given that I will never do these type of things myself lol
agree 10000% i miss this kind of stuff.
guys like him is the reason why TH-cam was born in the first place. Keep popping out the crazy ideas bro. 🍻
Run the pipes in parallel so that freshly cool water hits the ihs from each pipe.
The way you had it set up in this video (series), by the time the water would get to the 4th pipe, it should be noticably warmer.
This was my first thought. Put a manifold on each side so that fresh water is delivered to each heat pipe. This should also help bring the pressures down.
It does not work that way. It will be very slightly and it wont make a difference, all water get mixed together so more or less there wont be any difference when it is up and running for a while.
@@fristrm Yes it would work because of the increased flow rate but slower water movement, higher pressure means restricted flow but higher velocity, so you get fewer water molecules flowing faster but spending less time in the block picking up less heat.
Lower pressure but same volume means slower flow but more efficient heat transfer.
i wanna see this test again without the 240 radiator
This. I completely want this.
without a radiator it will overheat eventually.
Microage maybe the cpu fan might actually do something then lol
So where would the heat be transferred? It would just heat soak and then eventually start to boil the water if left running... Not a great idea
@@xFourTwenty117 The fan would make a lot more sense if he didn't use the Rad. So in theory, with the fan, or 2, it would work.
The best kind of mad science!
Yay you took my Suggestion on the video I sent you. This is dope thanks for making a video based off it.
Try this mod with a GPU heatsink! Finding waterblocks for every GPU is pretty time consuming so if this could be done to a GPU that would be amazing.
was thinking the same thing.
Yeah but if you have problems finding a water block for your GPU, you most likely have a low end GPU, which do not need a waterblock
@@alexstromberg7696 High end GPUs don't need waterblocks ether so I don't see your point.
@@metaleater9 His point is he is an A-hole to people with a lower end GPU. It makes sense to me to use a lower end one for this sort of testing. Why sacrifice a $500 or more unit for this?
Side note: He must not be aware that it would be badass to have a custom cooling system instead of being a Sheep and buying one of the few types they have on the market for ridiculous prices.
@@metaleater9 Didn't age well...
Hey man I see all the remarks about running them in parallel so there is that. You can give a local plumber a call and ask them to braze that copper for you at the top for very cheap. You wont have any leaking and pressure wonr be a issue. You seem fairly mechanically inclined and could easily do it yourself. Again, love your videos and ideas. No one has said it yet, but this is how you improve the industry. Radical experimentation and having fun at the same time.
Would recomemnd not to loop each pipe. run them in parallel. With looping, you are pushing slightly saturated water to the next loop, and so on .. by forth, there might not be any benefits. So try Parallel feed.
Wouldnt that require 4pumps and 4 radiators then? Every 2 pipes gets water in an a water out?
@@coolmemesbudd or just join the pipes after as they go in/come out of the heatpipes, and use one pump/radiator.
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Then the main tube would have to be fairly larger?
All the water in the loop is more or less the same degree. If you get heavy load fast the water will be a little bit warmer where the CPU is. But all water is mixed together so it does not really matter. Unless you plan to have several radiators and pumps.
Split a big tube to 4 smaller tubes then feed into 4 heatpipes. Then join the 4 output heatpipes into one giant tube. Done. Though pressure might be different for each or the water might have a preference for using one tube more than the other but I guess it'll equalize itself out if all tubes are of the same length.
You cooling experimentation videos have really blown up! Kudos to you for this! On my latest build, I'm just using the Wraith Spire that came bundles with my Ryzen 5 2600x. It's doing the job, but it's fun watching you build more extreme cooling solutions!
Water cool the BIGGEST Noctua cooler you can find.
hell yeah!!
Let's not freeze the cpu now...
A d15.
You're videos are great! I cant wait to see you up on the top of the TH-cam charts! GOODLUCK!
preach it as we know it boi 👌
If the fan made no difference you could cut the heat pipes shorter.
Then put splitters instead of looping back on itself for less overall restriction to flow.
Once again, you’ve outdone yourself with an awesome video
Thank you
That water cooled air cooler series would deserve a playlist, it's hard to find them all and play them in the right order a year after
Run the water through the heat pipes in parallel instead of series to try and lower the temperature so the coolant isn't being heated up then passed back through. Pretty cool though.
props for meantioning the Korean version, i felt i have seen it before... that Korean guy is an amazing electrical engineer...
For sure I didnt want to come across like this was my idea, I have no idea what he said in his video but it for sure looked like he knew what he was doing
I honestly love your current line of videos, you like a mad scientist doing to unthinkable experiments that most people wan to see. Once this i would LOVE to see that others are not doing is TEC cooling, not a over powered TEC system on the cpu, to worry about condensation, but how about putting a small TEC to just get the water cooler, aka, a water chiller setup using a small TEC. I think you are just crazy enough to do it. Or even crazier plugging your cooling loop into an actual water cooler.
Great re-make of the Korean's content, I am sure someone else in the comments has said this but I am not going to go read tham to find out lol, my suggestion for the pipe connection is using a compression fitting or since it is copper, why not solder some hose barbs on the ends of the tubes. Great video I am a tinkerer and love this kind of content
Just letting you know that I legitimately get hyped up whenever you put out cool videos like these.
I'm always hunting for idea l. Let me know if you have one
Boy, I just can't wait until they start making processors that get their input power through the heat spreader! I find it funny that you did a better job with a pair of pliers and some hotmelt glue than Corsair did with CAE, high tech materials, precision milling equipment, injection molding and 3-part epoxy on their 2080ti waterblock...............................
Now you have to submerge it inside the acrylic case of water without the hoses attached so the water is not only around the pipes but inside them as well.
I can't believe it you actually did what i suggested. Obviously i am not the only one who had that idea no doubt i enjoyed the video. Thanks :-)
Alot of my videos are subscriber suggestions, if you have an idea make sure to comment
Please make your money brother, dont let someone steal this idea you got. Its great, you should be golden too soon bud
Now needs aircooler with 8mm heatpipes :) But yeah, won't be cheap anymore, but would make it less restrictive. Anyways, it's kinda glorious.
A couple ideas on this.
I would instead of making one loop through the cooler, I would t off the tubes and have 2 or more paths though the cooler, that way the water passes the CPU only once or twice, depending on how you plumb it (experimenting will be needed to figure out the best way to plumb it). This will reduce the number of passes that the water makes past the CPU to get heated on the first pass, to go back in and get more heated on the second pass, and so on.
Also, I had another thought when you said that the fan made no difference and that would be to maybe only modify half of the heat pipes to water cooling and leave the other half as vapour chambers and see if you can have the best of both worlds. Kinda a hybrid cooler, where air can do idle and low use cooling and then water cooling kick in for higher CPU stressing uses.
video should be called: how to use an old aircooler as a temporary waterblock replacement
Seems if done right it can be a permanent one.
You should do all of this but with this cooler also submerged in mineral oil so it will have fluid flowing through the heat pipes and have a fan passing mineral oil through the fins. I think it would be interesting what would happen.
Suggestion for you! i know this video is old.
Try splitting the water pipe before the air cooler.. there's 4 pipes on left and 4 on right. left is in right is out.... skip the radiator. just cycle water through the air cooler and leave the fan on as the dissipation mechanism. this could be a win for a home brew AIO type of setup as the 4 small pipes shouldn't be very restrictive at all yet the fins on the stack should be able to transfer energy easier with water in the vapor chamber as the vapor change condensation process is quite impressive it actually doesn't hold a candle to real water movement. The reason why manufacturers don't just put water in the air coolers is because it would boil at the compute unit instead of circulating
That's the kind of stuff TH-cam should be used for. Thx mate! Greetings from germany
Hello and thank you
You deserve more subs and views man!!
Thank you
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I always thought doing something like this would be a cool idea to try out and see how it works. Wonderful video.
I like the idea from the standpoint of a pump failure: if the pump goes out, you've got the fins and a fan blowing air over those pipes in addition to the thermal capacity of the water to give you an extra minute or two to shut things down gracefully.
Honestly, the idea of putting the "radiator" onto the cpu is pretty cool. It's way easier to stow away a small pump.
@3:15 your flows are hooked up in sequence, which means the water will be pre-heated before going back in for more heat. Split your flows and run them in parallel, then merge after they're heated. Sequential flow means uneven heating.
The Cooler IS the RADIATOR! Best part of this concept is all you need to do is run water through the heat pipes and the waterblock/radiator (air cooler) does the rest.
That's funny I subscribed, I hit the Bell, and yet I still didn't get an announcement for this, damn you TH-cam
Subbed for the wacky experiments.
I would think that, instead of serial flow, one tube to the next, that a parallel flow would be way superior. That is, a pair of one to 4 manifolds, letting a single (larger) supply tube go into 4 smaller ones, each of which directly connects to one tube. You'd improve overall water flow, and have equal temperatures going in to each of the 4 tubes.
Bro i watched that other video a whiiiile ago and didnt realize it was you lol its just been so long and here i am looped back around to your channel.
Welcome back
Thanks lol i looked up that 3d printer the green one? I can get it on ebay for 70 should i
THOSE RESULTS ARE INCREDIBLE! You need more subscribers!
I have been waiting for this for so long and because im morning position to do this myself. It's amazing thank you so much for your help and time.
I was thinking of doing this to a GPU heatsink. Cool!
now you should try using this modified hyper 212 as a radiator with a normal water block, lol
If you have problems with water seeping out one of your connections, try inverting the loop, let the pump suck instead of pressing in.
Most pumps dont suck
Haha, awesome I have been wondering about doing this!
What if you substitute that little radiator with a used pickup or full sized SUV radiator? Maybe run all the pipes in parallel and try some kind of high volume pump... Maybe one also meant for a car or truck but drive it with a big electric motor and V belt (they do make 12v electric automotive water pumps, they aren't meant to run constantly though)! I guess transmission coolers are pretty cheap for their size too($30 for a 15"x10"x3/4" on ebay), maybe test one of those.
You can use 'Auto-translate' to English in your closed captions and settings. :-) Great videoz!
Hi! I just subbed to your channel. Why? You make such interesting and original content, playing around with pc. Almost like pc-myth busters. And i really like it!
You are doing al my crazy ideas lol, one thing that you sould have done, is to put the heat pipes in paralel (at least 2 and 2)with a Y coneector, and in this way it sould work whitouth that much pressure. Good content, you have one more sub ;)
You got into my recommended page and I'm very glad you did. Nice video!
Happy to be here thanks for checking me out
What an awesome experiment/hack. I love this kind of stuff, keep it up
suggestion: take this fan, but use a car ac or a fridge/freezer radiator, basically old school watercooling
Since the fan doesn't change anything, you could just pull all of the fins off and cut the tubes down lower. For the pressure I would change it from an 4 series pipes to a 2 parallel 2 series, or 4 parallel pipes with some splitters. Give the water more volume to go through and not require as much head pressure to force the water through. That shouldn't affect the cooling any but will make it easier on the pump and connections.
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Edit: brill results, love your content man!
Great Video. I've never seen anyone do this with an air cooler!
Madlad. For some reason I thought this wouldn't work that well but guess I was wrong.
I thought it wasn't going to work that well also but man it works and works well
Congratulations on the content! I'm tired of unboxings, reviews and "sponsored" (as in marketing pieces) content.
Awesome song mate , cool video! like ur style and ure content. keep up! got a new follower =)
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Wow nice idea dude ! This is realy worth a try.
suggest to reconnect the pipes to the 212 evo in Parallel, this might made the water flow quicker
i used to make heatpipes and its a right fiddly job ill tell ya !!! but inside there is a copper gauze like a really fine copper mesh also there is the tiniest amount of distilled water and what you have to do from memory is heat the pipe up , but before you do this is solder the top but put a little pin in , when it heats up at the correct time remove heat and tap pin in to seal the solder the the pin into place , sometimes you get it right not all the time .....its amazing how they work , i think trying to pull the gauze out would have given you just that little bit more less restriction , not much mind but might have been enough to give you that extra cooling ....
It's amazing to know that every hyper 212 fins stacks have cooler master logos 😄
Omg love your expariments. Just like I would do given the time and money. Excellent!
This videos are so high quality!!! Keep up the good work!
So the one thing that bothers me is that you are using a radiator.
As i remembe, in the chinese/korean/don´tknow video, he did not use a radiator because the heatsink is somehow a radiator by itself.
This is too why i do prefer the serial conection.
Yes, with a radiator parallel would be better because you get more cool water in and transport away more heat, but this just makes the aircooler into a non standard watercooling heatsink.
Without the radiator i think it is better to conect the heatpipes in serial. So the aircooler has more time to cool the water down heatpipe by heatpipe. Obviously it would need a fan.
So in other words...with a radiator this setup is totaly useless in my eyes. Without a radiator, things get interesting because this yetup could show if we can skip radiators at all.
BTW: Keep up doing your work with all sorts of water cooled air coolers. I realy like this concept and your videos.
Water-cooling in parallel does nothing. All the water will be the same temp
Cool experiment, there are a few videos of that mod on youtube, and one is yours haha
you connected the pipes at the top of the air cooler more like serial connection, exits from one and goes into another, already hot water just goes around. connect it in paralel. this will also fix the pressure problem.
Superb content, not your usual boring product review or how to guide. Maybe try doing this to a bigger heatsink.
Like say a nhd15
Major Hardware yup or a cryorig R1 if you can source it
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Been thinking of doing this for years now thanks for saving me the time
It's actually not a bad little hack, considering that 212 evos are to be found anywhere for cheap - and for this purpose you could even get a broken or damaged one.
Not a replacement for an actual waterblock, but probably comparable to a cheap one.
I think parallel tubing with some simple plastic splitters would help significantly. You'd get a lot more flow and less pressure problems.
You could also drastically reduce the size by just cutting it down, since all you really need are some nubs of the remaining heatpipes to connect to. Everything else is superflous.
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Fun fun.... TY for content.... if you wanted to try the series parallel swap suggested below, a water / air manifold from a fish tank would make the pluming easy.
@Major Hardware very interesting content, you got yourself a subscriber sir!
Im pulling a Rick here and am gonna say....It's water cooling but with extra steps. :D Neat vid, love it.
It took me two seconds to see his problem. He's circling the water around and with each pass it will warm up, having less differential temp with each loop, therefore picking up less heat. Those heat pipes need to be connected in parallel not series.
That was really interesting.And was actually functional!Thank you
Maybe try running liquid nitrogen instead as well as with fan blowing on the fins?
Crazy idea.. Maybe try using a radiator fan with an intercooler for a vehicle to cool a cpu
if you revisit the air water cooler, try putting the plexiglass against the flat sides of the block, that way water can't escape around and it is forced through the fins.
it would be interesting to make a hybrid air/water cooler that worked ok with just air cooling, but you could turn on/off a pump to circulate water to make it run cooler with a radiator.
Constructive criticism:
Running all 4 passes in series is why you had issues with pressure.
Since you have 4 pipes you could have run 2 passes in parallel to reduce the pressure needed and doubled volumetric flow rate by effectively doubling your cross-sectional area of pipe.
Now, there are a variety of ways to organize your passes and that would be based in how you want to control your thermal distribution and whether you want to run the parallel-flow or counter-flow between the passes.
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Hello ... I watched great videos. Better than my cooler. I subscribe and keep going. thank you.
Ccolest custom loop I've seen so far!!
Maybe you could have connect two pipes at once with Y-couplers for less restirction, plus getting rid of any fins might be interesting too^^
I'd love to see this again same test but parallel connections instead of series.
Great video! But the heat pipes are the CPU's only connection to the fins, once they're cut they don't work at all anymore. Maybe try leaving half the heat pipes as is, and using half for water. That should give the best of both worlds and also give you the option of leaving the pump turned off.
It should make it considerably better because you have essentially increased the removal rate and heat dissipation surface area. No question about it.
Next step, a swimming pool pump flowing right through the fin stack. In one side, out the other 😬
I would like to see that like watercooling with pool or car water pumps
I would like to see the same cooler using soldered copper tubing and a header system so 1 side flowed in and other side flowed out. This would likely improve your pressure and give all tubes fresh equal cooling.
One more idea for you, use a graphic card heatsink on a processor somehow like Morpheus 2 or something like that
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Make sure to always wear safety goggles when cutting something.
*puts them on his forehead*
You see the size of my forehead it needs protected
This is essentially a very difficult way of having a regular CPU waterblock
"Make sure to wear your PPE" *puts PPE on top of head* 😂