Liquid cooling

Hi funeralpyre88,

Yes you can have a case with all the active components liquid cooled. But you can not seal it air tight. The liquid cooling requires fans with radiators and they must blow air in or out of the case. Some cases use filters on the radiators/fans that greatly reduce the dust. The Hydrolux cooling is usually used for advanced liquid cooling. If you look at the offering of the Hydrolux cooling you will see you can get your CPU, GPU/GPUs and chip set liquid cooled. The memory is usually air cooled but there is a fan set available if addition cooling is wanted.

Keeping a computer relative dust free is not a lot of work if you keep on top of it.

Frank    

Edited by FrankW - 02 Aug 2015 at 4:29am

There are a couple things:

1) There is an expectation with high-end motherboards that there is at least minimal air flow over it

2) Liquid cooling flows a liquid over the components to cools it and dissipates the heat at a raditator.  The radiators need air flowing through them to take the heat out of the liquid cooling loop

So, there are a couple of options for you:

1) Get a case with a set of filters incorporated into it; you can go as far as special ordering a Silverstone MM01 case with HEPA filters

2) Get a steel case you can add magnetic filters (e.g. Demciflex filters)

3) You can get a computer that is completely passively cooled (like Streamcom); this will limit the PSU to no more than 65W or less and something like the upcoming NVIDIA GTX 950 with a passive cooler on it

4) You go the rugged industrial computer route and get a conduction cooled single board computer with a conduction cooled chassis that you'd bolt up to a conducting surface that can radiate and convect away the hear to the surrounding sufficiently; a pure conduction cooled set-up will limit you to around 25W total power for the SBC.

I want to get an Apollo ~ $3000 but I want fan filters on it also. and my question about the air-tight liquid-cooled chassis was mostly just my imagination i wasn't really serious about it.

I wonder if I could pay DS to install them for me and make sure the airflow is fine?