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Originally posted by hara
I have already made my own personal system
http://www.geocities.com/neville_grech/wickedpc.html
but there's nothing original with that. We are going to SIMULATE the heat load of a number of computers. The goals are to construct something which is syentific, original, and exclusive. Who wins will go abroad  to show off the project elsewhere. It's the originality that's lacking. We would have to also show some numbers and stuff 
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Ok if you are going to simulate the heat load then don't bother with a computer at all. What you need to figure out though is what exactly IS the heat load going to be? Or is it just going to be a made up number not based on any spacific equipment? Is that where the 2000watts came from?
So lets break down what needs to happen.
1) Figure out the heat load.
2) Find a accurate and consistant way to simulate the load.
3) Construct a block that will absorb the load and have the liquid going through it. (should be a part of #2 just aswell make it all one peice)
4) Figure out what the heat exchanger is going to be.
5) Pump (already done)
6) Tubing
7) Temperature and flow monitoring.
Now what would be cool would be to add a system that could adjust the water temperature to maintain a spacific temperature range. Something like this would be a MUST on a real system. For example if you have the heat exchanger on the roof of the building and gets 120F outside you would need to cool the air down in order to keep the water in the certain temp range. BUT you would also need the ability the HEAT the water. Say again the exchanger is on the roof and a snow storm blows in and it drops to 20F outside. You sure the hell would not want the water to drop below whatever the temp is in the computer room (obviously the computer room will be considerably warmer in this senario) because that would cause massive condensation on the installed blocks and piping through the bulding and in the computer room possibly causing sever damage! So you also need the ability to add heat to the water to maintain the certain temp range.
This is probably out of your range though.