altech6983 - 12-6-2009 at 14:37
Hello guys,
I love chemistry, computers (gaming included), and electronics (building). Right now I am a sophomore in college and I am at a point where I need to
build a new computer (Mostly gaming rig). I have been thinking a while about the new design I wanted and I wanted to incorporate my love for
chemistry, computers, electronics in to this one build. I got the computer and electronic parts down easy, the third comes from chemistry.
What I am planning on doing is water cooling my cpu and gpu. I wanted to be unique so I decided to build a custom reservoir. The look I am using is
modeled after resident evil's T-virus container.
What I want to do is build to reservoirs, one before the cpu/gpu tubing and one after with the radiator in between, that way the mixture going in is
green and output is blue. This mixture needs to have similar property as water so that it doesn't effect the heat absorption to much. Now I have
searched but I haven't found anything really, so I figured I would post here and see if y'all had any suggestions.
Thanks,
altech6983
[Edited on 12-6-2009 by altech6983]
[Edited on 12-6-2009 by altech6983]
Ozone - 12-6-2009 at 15:27
Cool.
Maybe you could find something here:
http://www.chromazone.co.uk/?gclid=COjVqv7vhZsCFRIeDQodT0eOp...
Thermochromism is quite interesting. You should check it out in detail. These dyes tend to lose color when heated and regain it when cool. A mixture
of blue and yellow with different temperature thresholds might do the trick.
Good luck,
O3
altech6983 - 12-6-2009 at 15:35
Thanks for the link, I started drooling when I saw that page, I will let you know If I find anything.
Hydragyrum - 12-6-2009 at 16:20
Cool idea - I've no suggestions but would be interested to know if you find what you're looking for.
altech6983 - 12-6-2009 at 20:24
Sure thing, I would subscribe to the thread though because I am just getting ready to sell my old computer so that I can make a new one. Should I
raise enough money I will be doing the water cooling. Either way I have to wait until it is built and take some accurate temp readings of the water on
the input and the output so that way I know which dye to use.
altech6983 - 7-6-2010 at 13:27
Just to let anybody that finds this know what happened. I got quoted $500 for a pint per color. I needed two so that wasn't feasible. I also never got
my computer sold so it never went any farther.