In case you’re water cooling a PC, it’s typically accepted that you simply want some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries the heat-removing fluid. What in case you simply…didn’t? That’s what [TrashBench] requested together with his direct water cooling experiment. As a substitute of built-in pump or copper water block, he simply epoxied a 3D printed pipe becoming onto his naked GPU and CPU.
The outcomes are attention-grabbing: whereas the directly-cooled GPU outperforms the skilled system by an honest margin, the identical approach fails when utilized to the CPU. It additionally leaks and practically ruins his {hardware}, however these are the dangers you are taking when doing mad science, and it’s nothing extra epoxy can’t repair. In any case, the truth that instantly exposing chips to liquid can cool them down isn’t precisely a revelation. Folks have been dunking computer systems in oil for years, however the truth that he sees such a distinction between CPU and GPU is kind of attention-grabbing. [TrashBench] has his personal principle within the video, however what do you suppose is occurring right here?
In any case, if he continues his direct cooling experiments he’s nonetheless going to want a radiator, and if we could also be so daring, we wish to suggest an enormous metallic snake.
