Open Loop Liquid Cooling Sentry 2.0

I am presently brain storming ways to possibly cool the Dr. Zaber Sentry 2.0 with open loop liquid cooling. Presently the issue is trying to find water blocks for any of the various mini-itx GPUs made by the likes of MSI, Gigabyte, and Zotac to see if the parts even exist to support such a concept. Any thoughts or parts recommendations would be greatly appreciated as I am really curious to see if there is any way to cram a whole custom loop into such tiny case.

I run a ZOTAC RTX 2070 mini with an Alphacool GPU water block.
I was chosing between it and a Bykski block.

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That’s helpful. I was having trouble finding blocks for anything that wasn’t for all the highest end stuff, so it’s nice to now have those two companies added to my massive collection of bookmarks.

Finding the blocks is still only half the challenge. I also need to figure out how I’m going to fit a pump, reservoir, and radiator in the case and how it will all get powered. The HDPLEX 400W DC-ATX power supply would allow me to salvage the space that the SFX PSU would normally occupy, but that severely limits my power to just 330W if I got with the external power brick.

If the max power input to the system can only be 330 or less then the question really comes down to, how practical is water cooling such a low power system? :confused:

If you’re dropping the cash for the dr.zaber, open loop, and 2070 you better be prepared to drop the cash for this
https://hdplex.com/hdplex-internal-400w-ac-dc-adapter-with-active-pfc-and-19vdc-output.html
21amps at 19v will be 400w

That said I wouldn’t suggest and open loop in this particular case with a dedicated GPU, just not enough space and in the right place
Said the man who wants a SNES PC

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If you haven’t been there you can find a lot of informations and get the opinion from people that are working or have worked on a PC like that on r/sffpc. I know it’s not a direct contribution to the topic, but I think you can find help aswell there.

Can’t wait to see a build log soon here!

Alternatively, there is https://smallformfactor.net/forum/

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Other than the case, I haven’t purchased any of the other components yet. At the moment the only reason to go with the 400W HDPLEX adapter setup is if I want to try to reclaim what little space there is within the case for a pump+res, but the liquid cooling becomes rather unnecessary if the overall power consumption and heat generation are limited to 400W or less.

It says internal but I Not from Concentrate uses them like laptop bricks
He makes the s4 mini and I believe runs the smallformfactor.net that mazeframe mentioned

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Unfortunately this idea is basically dead at this point. Even if I could find a suitable power supply to try and save space, there will be will be little to no room around the GPU to manage tubes of any kind with the way the GPU is mounted.

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