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    Looking for a water block under 20mm Height

    Discussion in 'Notebook Cosmetic Modifications and Custom Builds' started by Velislide, Jan 27, 2014.

  1. Velislide

    Velislide Notebook Guru

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    I'm looking for a water block, that's under 20mm high, for a water cooling project. Been looking for days, and haven't been able to come up with much, other then the GPU-180 from Koolance that is impossible to find since its discontinued. I would love you use say, the Heatkiller v3 if it was possible to tap into the sides, instead of plumbing through the top of it.

    If anyone can help me find one, that would be great! Its really the only thing holding me back from doing a fully internal water cooling loop on my m17x.
     
  2. KCETech1

    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    you may need to get one custom machined or modified for your needs
     
  3. Velislide

    Velislide Notebook Guru

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    There used to be a few different companies that made some, mostly for GPU's I think. Suprised I cant find anything now? A GPU water block should work just as well, except I just cant find anything that resembles the Koolance GPU-180.
     
  4. joker105

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    Why not eBay? There's a Koolance 180 there, plus tons of other blocks: water block | eBay
     
  6. Dialup David

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    If you want an entire Waterloop with the pump, heatsinks, and blocks check out the ThermalTake Tidewater...
    I remember someone made one with that kit if you can find one, mount it to the back of the LCD lid and modify a USB port to a 4 pin molex. Presto.

    The waterblock for that thing is like 15mm, super slim.
     
  7. Megol

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    It's pretty easy to make a simple water block if one can solder (and for this purpose I think all can solder!). Cut a base plate and solder a bent copper pipe onto it with silver solder using a torch.
     
  8. joker105

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    Im currently testing a cooler master seidon 120m water cooling kit on my sager np8662, the setup is bulky and definitely external, but can be portable. The copper gpu block arrived last week and it's temporarily installed already, it's under 10mm thick but i am still struggling to determine a proper mounting bracket for it, but it works already even with mild pressure. I just mounted it above the copper heat sink to supplement my air cooling.
     
  9. Vipervlv

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    You might want to try this one
    eBay water block
    As i have some thought for portable WC loop but integrated into the laptop.
     
  10. Vipervlv

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    Can you provide some pictures of the so mounted setup, please :)
     
  11. joker105

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    Sure Vipervlv, Working on it now. But don't laugh because the setup is still quite a mess. But i am happy to say my other mod ( added a 2nd fan in battery compartment) is already done as you might be able to see. I added the mini pcie to usb card as internal power supply and internal bluetooth dongle for my mouse.
     
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    41.jpg 20140423_194059.jpg 20140423_194137.jpg 20140423_194246.jpg 20140423_194407.jpg 20140423_194707.jpg

    First batch of photos.

    The copper block is still rough, i'm thinking of sanding it later on to get better heat transfer. I'm still using a cheap thermal compound that doesn't dry up, i need that so i can easily remove the water block when i have to be mobile. switching to IC diamond later on. If you'll notice, i just used the seidon heatsink/pump solely as a pump and attached one of the included mounting brackets to it so it has a metal base. the radiator is configured in such a way that the lower outlet feeds directly to the pump and the return pipe is above so it also acts like a reservoir keeping the air bubbles away from the pump. The seidon may be in the lower class of coolers but it's designed for a 100 watt cpu, the QX chip is only 44 watts so it works well enough. I have a more powerful 5 amp power supply (not shown) for desktop use, the small power brick you see is good for only 2.5 amps but if i disconnect one fan ( the pull side) the current can be good enough for portable water cooling.
     
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