Frozen Water??

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 04:08 PM

Windchill doesnt effect temperature, only what your perception is based on your skin. You put a thermometer outside in a windstorm at 20F, the thermometer reads 20F even if theres a "10F windchill". Thats perceived temperature.

Hows this look??

**jbartlett323** · 01-09-2010, 07:06 PM

thanks Jon that was exactly my point!

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 08:26 PM

Ok, so. I was just running my PC and had the temps at 5c on the CPU. Not much if any condensation on the tubing just yet, but then my pump made a loud "sucking air" noise. Crap! Hard powered it off. I was stupid - I forgot that if the CPU temp was 5 then the water had to be much colder. Look over, here I was making ice cubes in the bay reservoir!

Time for some coolant?!

**Hondacity** · 01-09-2010, 08:39 PM

whats your air temps?

**Antioch** · 01-09-2010, 09:08 PM

Dude... you need to take pictures of that! Come on!

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 10:42 PM

A pic of the ice in the res?

Hrm ok I will let it freeze again and see what happens haha

**Antioch** · 01-09-2010, 10:53 PM

Dont let anything bust from the expanding frozen water... that would suck.

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 10:55 PM

I dont let it get to be solid, it just starts to get slushy for the pump. It'll be ok I think. Running it now

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 11:17 PM

Took only like 4 mins to freeze up, CPU temps at 6c and the res crystalized

**Antioch** · 01-09-2010, 11:21 PM

Wow, cool! It's pretty neat how quickly water can freeze when it gets really cold outside.

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 11:25 PM

Hows this?

and...

**Hondacity** · 01-09-2010, 11:28 PM

outside temps at -20C?

nice ice

**Jon K** · 01-09-2010, 11:34 PM

Outside temp according to weather.com is 15F "feels like 3F"

**Antioch** · 01-10-2010, 09:42 AM

Wow. That's pretty neat!

**Kadett** · 01-10-2010, 10:24 AM

The problem with ice is that it expands. So unless you want some broken watercooling equipement I suggest you move the PC into non freezing areas untill you have replaced the coolant with something with antifreeze in it.

**Alexandr0s** · 01-10-2010, 10:47 AM

And the problem with antifreeze is that some acrylics don't like ethylene glycol, it's main component.

**Sparky** · 01-10-2010, 01:11 PM

lol ice in the res

I thought that the heat from the CPU/GPU would be enough to keep it above freezing. Guess not

**warriorpoet** · 01-10-2010, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

lol ice in the res

I thought that the heat from the CPU/GPU would be enough to keep it above freezing. Guess not

whelp. Looks like time to buy a pair of 295s for folding and...you know...heat things up for the good of your system.

Someone's gotta sacrifice

**Mastiffman** · 01-10-2010, 11:42 PM

Plug in an oil heater out there and I guarantee that things will stay warm. You can buy space heaters that plug into a 110 for $50 or <.I ended up putting one in my Garage along with a vent from the Furnice when my wife and I got the furnice replaced last year and between the two with heater on low set to 70*f it's really nice. It's an attached garage but the wals aren't insullated... I put on a new, insullated garage door and weather trim along with a new backyard door to the garage and painted th floor. I keep some of my Mastiffs in there on ratation in the winter... Just gets to cold outside. It hit 10*F last week. And it's still cold out. all the snow is frozen now.. Michigan! Go figure.

Hey, good luck on that either way!

**tool_462** · 01-10-2010, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

I thought that the heat from the CPU/GPU would be enough to keep it above freezing. Guess not

Doesn't take long when your ambient is like this:

I switched to air that night since my loop turned to slush in about 90 seconds even with antifreeze in the loop with distilled.

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