GeneralI Feel Like This Should Not Work As Well As It Does
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This definitely should not work, but it does

External AIO Redneck Style


So, bit of a weird setup. It's a ThermalTake Level 10 GT enclosure, but the cooler is an NZXT 280mm AIO. If it was a 240mm radiator, I'd be able to remove the top exhaust fan, and just stick it there easy peasy, but it's not, and there's nowhere else to mount this except... Outside.

So 10 minutes with some thin steel bars, a vice, a hammer, and a very thin drill bit that matched the radiator, my grandfather and I came up with this monstrosity, that actually stays cooler than any PC I've ever watercooled before.

There was a glass where the tubing comes out of, we kinda removed the glass, and it's set up for a push config, so while it's pushing air through the radiator, it's also pulling it from the case like it would on any other push config set up for exhaust instead of intake, and even though there's a gap, it somehow works.

All my temp settings check out, got CoreTemp running constantly just so my temps are on my taskbar out of the way but still visible. The CPU in this isn't anything fancy, 5820k overclocked to 4.0, I could go higher, but honestly I don't see the point, nothing I do requires 4.0 really, I just like that it's a solid number lol

It's not the craziest thing ever, but it's the weirdest DIY I've really done that worked out well in the end

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I can honestly tell you I've thought of doing the same at times.
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Scratched wrote I can honestly tell you I've thought of doing the same at times.


It works, honestly I wish I didn't have to resort to rigging something like this, if I could just afford another AIO, or a new case even, I'd be all set, but in the situation I'm in, it's not a possibility at the moment lol, in time I'm sure I'll get it fixed up the right way lol
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Hell for me it's more or less I just want to make a completely closed system. Rads on the outside in push pull with dust filters on to minimize the dust build up, but make it so I only had to care about the surface. Something like this guy did. Just purely clean as hell and removing all the heat from the actual parts. My temps are fine, but... Look at that, can you imagine? Something that somehow hides the radiators, all while keeping airflow and completely able to keep the PC dead silent and cool.

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