Hailea HC-500A Water Chiller Review @ Bit-tech

Watercooling can come in many forms,  Small and compact units like the Corsair H-50 do a great job at keeping your processor cool however if you want to watercool your entire system a larger custom build is what you will need.  Regardless of what method you choose you can never get colder than ambient room temperature.

So how do you increase the cooling performance of an already efficient cooling system??  You remove the radiator and replace it with a chiller of course.  The Hailea was designed to cool tropical aquariums but seems to have been modified into a 790w water chiller.

Phase-change cooling is more usually found cooling a single component, typically a CPU, by pumping a sub-0°C liquid refrigerant over the CPU, with the heat of the CPU transferring to the liquid, phase-changing (boiling) it to its gaseous state. This gas is then pumped into a compressor which, with the help of a heat exchanger, phase-changes (condenses) it back to its liquid state to be pumped back to the cooling block to start the whole process again.

Be sure to check out the article for an exploded view of the Hailea, it is quite impressive and even features a temperature control unit that will start and stop the compressor when needed.

On a side note, I now know what I can do with that old Vapochill PE I have collecting dust in my garage.

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