water cooling mod

Hey people want to do a water cooling mod to my laptop, i want to know ehre can i find the smallest water pump, block, and radiator to adpapt them INTO my laptop removing the existing fans i would apriciate any help, i found a Koolance gpu block to be very small, and anothr pumo at newegg, but i still need a small radiator or maybe i will need to build my own. anyway its for a dell e1705 so messures would be welcome too. A small radiator is hard to find and i need also a pump that is 12v conected. i wonder if the new 7900/x000 gpu block is small enough to fit in the laptop, removing the existing heatpipes. :wow: :lol:

 

Uhh...people don't usually water cool laptops; it not usually productive..you're not usually overclocking that much--I wouldn't recommend it. If you need to game that seriously--you will want a desktop and a stronger card that an gs. Just my .02. It would be cool; but it's totally messy and unnecesssary.

 

I Agree with vespoli, this is the first time I ever even thought about water cooling solution for notebooks from seeing this thread.

Get a desktop if you game that hardcore. It's not needed with notebooks especially since they having processors being made on 65nm processes now.

 

That would be an interesting mod to see ...

 

all i have to say is, its your money. but seriously, take a picture of it before you install your watercool mod, and make sure you play half life 2 one last time, for memory's sake.

seriously if you want a watercooled laptop, the project is bigger than you are imagining. I would highly reccomend that you start from scratch and go ahead and build a custom case designed to fit your pump and cooling system. obviously such a project is exponentially bigger than modding an already built case, but i think that's what your getting into.

 

i think its a freaking cool idea. you guys are suggesting he get a desktop for his hxc gaming but i look at this as more of a fun project. plus he's not just some moron who randomly came up with the idea, it sounds like he knows what he's doing.

why put a supercharger in your v-8? just buy a WHOLE NEW CAR with a w-16 or something! gosh! (mocking)

 

Listen to the masterchef he is absolutely right...

 

even if you you were succesful at setting up a watercooling system, you will still need some airflow for the vrms and other parts that generate fair amounts of heat, this is a problem for large desktop cases that are water cooled only, in a notebook chasis, that problem would be multipied by a factor of 10 or more, I'm sure it could be done, but not without some major issues and more than likely you would have to anchor it, as I doubt you would be able to make it self contained, thereby sacrificing the main point of a notebook, portability, anoyher problem would be leaks, wich are bad enough in large towers, but in a small, horizontal layout, that problem is made much worse, if you do attempt this, I strongly advise you to get a cheap old junker to practice on, it'd be a shame to destroy a nice new machine

 

you know what you could always try? submerging the entire laptop in vegetable oil to cool it. runs silent and cools great, a friend of mine did that in an aquarium for one of his CS servers back in the 1.3 days...

 

now comes one of those times when i genuinely really can't tell when someone's being sarcastic or not... lol

 

I've heard of using oil to cool before. Not in that sense, but...

 

Ok i see most of you lack imagination and are not helpng at all, regarding the airflow i am planing to use a custom cooling pad, this radiator may fit on the right fan slot, this pump on the left fan slot, and this vga block can be used on the cpu and MAYBE on the GPU. thisone is also good. This radiator seems small too. Any ohter sugestions?

 

Ah you guys didn't know you could do such a thing as KidA said?

Do a search on Google about it, its rather somewhat common and you can find actual pictures of people putting just the hardware components into an aquarium with no case, and it still works. I wouldn't recommend it as it will void your warranty though.

 

All you have to do is cool the heatpipe. you can try tying a regular water block to the pipe and put some thermal paste between the gap. At ur own risk.

 

This link is OLD as hell, but hey .....

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Jul/chi20020719015488.htm


UPDATE: THIS LINK IS BETTER ...SCROLL DOWN FOR PICS

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread43257.html

 

its kinda neat, but totally pointless, if you want a large imobile pc with lots of things hanging off of it, build a DESKTOP computer

 

I saw some liquid cooled notebooks prototypes already (pics of course). So I guess we might be seeing those things in the future. It is not water, but works more like a fridge - with some volatile liquid that is expanded on CPU and GPU and then condensed and cooled on a radiator. It is completely silent besides the small pump.

 

Yolda, you have apparently forgotten the reason water cooling setups work. The idea is that instead of a small heatsink that requires an equially small fan to remove heat, you can move that heat to a much bigger heatsink, a radiator, in wich you can either passivly cool it (if its real big) or use a big fan that runs slower and quieter to cool it.

NONE of that is possible with a laptop. Everysingle way you look at it, the idea is to sacrifice space for better and quieter cooling. There is no space in a laptop in wich you can sacrifice. Todays laptops have no cavities, no place for hybrid mods. Even video cards, while removable and use the same connector, very in shapes and sizes that can prevent themselves from being used in all laptops.