Planning Water cooled modem/router

Yes it's over the top and not necessary but I have an 80mm rad sitting here just begging to cool something and well I have the itch for a new project

I've got some old north bridge blocks sitting here which should be a perfect size only thing I need is a small, quite pump for this little loop.

Will more than likely leave the rad just passively cooled as even thu the modem throws out a fair bit of heat I don't see it heating the rad up too much.
All will end up in a spare rack case I have lying around.

Any suggestions for pumps?

 

That sounds like a really funny project!

Have you checked out some of the REALLY small aquarium pumps? They'll most likely require a fair bit of modification, but I have one myself which only measures 3,5*4,5*4 cm and has an output of 200 L/h. Mind you I have no experience with water cooling myself, so I don't know if you can use such pumps in a WC setup

You have to take som pictures of the build process and post them on bt!

 

Most of the really cheap pumps are submersible so maybe something like this Alphacool/Ehiem 600?

 

I've had a look on ebay but sound levels/vibration are more than likely going to be the main factors for this as the case I have has plenty of space and a huge amount of flow shouldn't be needed.

Home now so on with the pics, haven't found the WC blocks yet but I know I have them somewhere lol.

Excuse the quality phone pics today until the missus gets home.

The Rad:



The Case:



The gear to be cooled:

Netgear DM111P ADSL Modem


Ubiquiti Router Station Pro

 

WOOT???
when i attach 90mm minebea (USB 5V) on my ADSL modem my wife staring on me very _bad_ and barely run away to call a doctor!!! now You want to LC it?

 

Got most of the parts so it's cheap.
If I do any more to my PC I have to spend money so the missus doesn't mind too much lol

 

Nice idea .... useless, then necessary

for the pump ... something like this could be nice : http://www.micropumps.co.uk/

 

Didn't know it was such a huge enclosure lol. Thought you were talking about something slightly.. smaller

 

Nice pumps rather expensive thu especially getting them shipped to Australia

 

Got it lying around and got some future plans for it

 

it's not a question of money (as she barely run away for doc not a lawyer ).
she was afraid for my mental health

 

Mental health?, It's all in good fun

 

Pretty neat mod, would be cool to see this on an overclocked Linksys running ddwrt.

 

The routerstation is running ddwrt at the minute but I will be changing it to OpenWRT as I wish to use a USB audio with MPD.

Processor is 680mhz and can be OC'd to 800mhz from what I've read.

 

Double Post

 

How do you think OpenWRT compares to DDWRT?...I think I'd like to try something else on mine.

 

Considered Tomato?

 

OpenWRT does not have a GUI straight out of the box so most of the config is done in the command prompt by edit configs, etc.
It's pretty much a cut down Linux build but it means there are a lot more applications that can be loaded including USB Audio which I am going to use to do something similar to this.

I've not really played with Tomato I should have a look at it, don't think it runs on the Routerstation but I've got a spare Buffalo here somewhere.

 

Another one that I considered trying...I think I'll have to have a look at my router once again. I am experiencing issues with the uptime of my WRT54G. It seems when I have it on for a few days it locks up and doesn't want to respond. Just another project I have to dig into when I get time.

 

Was looking at a pump like this just because it's cheap really.

Any know of some cheap pumps I could use?