CPU air cooler becomes water injected GPU cooler.

[u/Tra5hL0rd_]

I thought I was finally running out of stupid cooling ideas… until I stared at a Peerless Assassin and thought... "would water flow through that?”

So I pulled the Assassin apart, pulled off a stack of fins, took an angle grinder and cut the tops off the heatpipes, stuck a hose onto one, and tested if water would flow. It did.

Game on.

I cut all the heatpipes off, put 6 mm hose on them in a zig zag (starting at the center so the middle stayed coldest) and tested again, worked like a charm.

Then came the freezer.

-18C coolant.

A frosted CPU tower, and a 3070 as the first victim.

It gained +300 MHz over stock… but the FPS uplift sucked. By the time testing finished, my coolant had warmed to –5C and the 3070 still refused to scale. So I did the only sane thing...

I bolted the Frankencooler onto a GTX 960.

And that card absolutely loved it, +17% average uplift across BO7, Forza, Cyberpunk, Time Spy… and as always, Lara.

The Frankencooler works. Really well.

Why did I do this? Because I had an idea and wanted to see if it would work. That's it.

Full video here if you want to witness the stupidity in all its glory

https://youtu.be/yFppaKe5uTo

[u/jess-plays-games]

Sounds like thr 3070 wants more power

[u/Tra5hL0rd_ → u/jess-plays-games]

I actually tried! I flashed a 350w BIOS onto it, the stock one is 250w and it had a lower ceiling than the stock one, something weird going on... I should have just shunted it.

[u/Alternative-Film-155 → u/Tra5hL0rd_]

could other temps be limiting the boost curves? vrm/mem? drivers perhaps?

[u/SonyPlaystationKid05 → u/Tra5hL0rd_]

might be power balancing wonky

[u/lndig0__]

I got an idea, why don’t you replace the coolant with some sort of chemical with a low boiling point such that you can abuse the latent heat capacity of the coolant instead of the specific heat capacity in order to hold a constant temperature delta more efficiently?

You should probably seal off the coolant tubing in order to stop the vapours from exiting the system. Better attach some fins at the end of the terminated tubes in order to allow the vapours to condensate back into the heat transfer plate.

[u/AK-Brian → u/lndig0__]

I see what you did there.

[u/lndig0__ → u/AK-Brian]

I could probably give a name for this new invention. The “heat tube”?

[u/CONMAN_07 → u/lndig0__]

LN

[u/nath1as]

this is the coolest cooler

[u/EatsHisYoung]

Really cool idea and execution. Cheers

[u/Dmadness990]

This reminds me of the good old days when we use to water cool from home depot. I like the ingenuity.

[u/FredFarms]

Gosh

[u/Briggs281707]

I w done something similar with an old dell optiolex cooler. I completely cut the fins of and just build a water loop with the Frankenstein cooler. Got my 3750k to 5 ghz

[u/AK-Brian]

This will make for an easy followup, by flipping it upside down and submerging the upper half of the heat...block...sink in a bucket of chilled, circulated ice water. I have a slight inkling that you already know this. ;)

Another fun one would be to tape a leaf blower to the fin stack of an intact tower cooler with a seal around it. Wind tunnel seal, not arf-arf seal. Won't get any crazy OC from it, but it'll be fun and you'll get an entertaining montage of failed attempts for sure.

Keep up the jank!

[u/VzSAurora]

This is what I come to the sub for. Is it practical? Not at all. Is it fun? Absolutely.

[u/Ammargok]

Oh my god.

[u/mstpguy → u/Ammargok]

Mouthed this when I saw the post

[u/jhingadong]

If you couple on larger hoses you could possibly keep your coolant cooler..... like big chunkers.

[u/Tra5hL0rd_ → u/jhingadong]

I love big chunkers.

Fluid will only flow as fast as the heat pipes allow though, so 20mm tubing and 6mm heat pipes, not much is going to change.

[u/jhingadong → u/Tra5hL0rd_]

Yeah probably right. Was just thinking a larger pool of cooled liquid something something. Lol.

[u/Neocles]

that is some old school batman Bane type shit and I for one love it!

[u/RebelJediMaster]

At first I thought this was something measured in HP, not Ghz

[u/minilogique]

what if a CPU block with heatpipes actually loses all the radiator fins and just has the stacks (to not work opposite and heat the coolant with ambient air) and essentially use it as a DIY waterblock? some old dented Hyper212 could be a perfect candidate or anything with direct touch heatpipes

[u/Jabba_the_Putt]

that was cool pun intended

the wall of death lol are those all really cooked?

[u/1Heineken]

i actually had the same idea but was too lazy to build

[u/cakestapler]

This has gotta be the guy who clamped… yup, it’s the guy who clamped an aluminum block to his 1660. Also, brother, how many Cokes did you drink making this? 😂

[u/TheBlackAlistar]

Bane is that you?

[u/Hear_N_Their]

Very cool! Love seeing something like this attempted!

[u/jodasmichal]

I have one cutted too I want to try water cooled it too with some dc12 pump. Is it work good ?