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    Water cooling laptop: Thermaltake Tidewater

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Zymphad, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. Zymphad

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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I remember looking at that, I was even tempted to bid on one on ebay.
    I guess if you take it apart you can maybe use it's pump and other parts to put inside a notebook. That pump must be pretty small.

    Might be able to take out the battery of the notebook and place the pump there. But you would need a smaller radiator and fan.
     
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  3. Zymphad

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    Would be the solution for anyone who have issues with fan noise.

    Didn't watch all the video, but seemed maybe he was getting 40C with Furmark?
     
    Zymphad, Aug 3, 2012
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    If someone dares to do this with their 680M .. I reckon that someone would get 30C with Furmark on lol
     
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    Admittedly it's been some years since i've bothered with water cooling. But one thing I remember back then was that Thermaltake's water cooling stuff was junk. And that looks like it's no different. I wouldn't trust that piece of plastic inside my computer.
     
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  6. hackness

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    The pump is 12V, not sure if the 5V fan slot can move it. If it does you can use a fan splitter for the pump, but the copper heatsink needs to be modded and replace the heatsink for the GPU die and let the original GPU fan do the cooling.
     
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    maybe the back cover of laptop need to take off and using CM Storm SF-19 covert to 12V
     
    Shiroi14, Aug 3, 2012
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    Thermaltake makes junk for watercooling. If you really want to watercool a laptop I'd suggest getting a cheap swiftech rad and pump with koolance quick-disconnects on whatever block would fit. Also for powering all that you could do the paperclip method to jumpstart a desktop psu. Temps would be amazing, my desktop cards run around 50C at load under water, and that's a 200-300W card.
     
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    The pump's height is 2.5cm might be able to fit into the buttom RAM area. If the following 2 things can be overcome then in house watercooling should be possible:

    1. Power the 12V pump (Mini PCI or USB 3.0) or find a 5V pump (height under 2.5cm) and use fan cable splitter.
    2. Replace Die heatsink with a modified watercooling heatsink (Fluid direction: Pump > Tube > die plate > Tube > Copper heatsink > Tube > Pump).
     
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  10. fantomasz

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    keep it outside of laptop
     
    fantomasz, Aug 4, 2012
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