Slashdot Mirror
Water Cooling Flow Indicators
A reader writes:"There's an interesting HOW-TO about how to construct a a flow indicator for your water-cooling rig for your overclocked machine." I dunno what I'd do with the extra cycles from overclocking and watercooling - maybe run more rc5 packets though the box - crazy idea though.
I don't really care if it's water cooling, magic pink smoke, immersing in an oil bath, or whatever it takes to accomplish the task...
:-(
...what I want, more than overclocking, is for the freakin' roar of three fans to be silenced! My god, this box is noisy.
While I love the speed of my new computer, I kinda long for the days of my AMD K2-200, which didn't have any fans at all. Not on the CPU, not for the case, and not in the power supply. Just hung the latter outside the box for convection cooling and, oh!, was it a quiet machine...
This machine would start glowing if the fans were stopped...
--
--
Don't like it? Respond with words, not karma.
...who once said that 640k of memory should be enough for anybody. But really, what the hell do we need these extra 10-20% speed boosts for at this point besides Q3 benchmarks to impress your l337 friends? I don't know what amazes me more: that the Powerbook I carry around is 10 times more powerful than the Cray supercomputers of 20 years ago, or that I still watch it struggle to resize a window under OSX.
Hrm. All right, maybe we do need to overclock our machines still. But something is terribly wrong.
TomatoMan
-- http://frobnosticate.com
On second thought, maybe I'll just stick with old-fashioned air.
While the cost/performance boost ratio for watercooling is questionable, I've got a Duron750@1000 running here with a $30 HSF. The processor cost me $50. Voided my warranty, sure, but it's _$50_ :D
The main reason behind setting up watercooling systems is for the "cool!" factor; if your nerd friends come over and see the tubes and radiators snaking their way around your machine they'll say "whoa." These are the same kinds of people who spraypaint their cases and run hardware websites obsessing about components that come on blue toned PCB.
It's sort of like how I've got a million gamepads kicking around here, but I just had to solder up a set each of SNESpads, PSX pads, and NES pads.
--
I think it seems to be missing some sort of indicator to my computer so that my computer knows what the flow rate it and can shut itself off (or adjust the clock speed) after it's gone for a certain amount of time at dangerously low flows. Otherwise it's just a visual indicator to me, but if I'm not by my computer it doesn't do me much good.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
your first statement is dead-on: Overclocking is an end in itself.
it's climbing Mount Everest, it's reaching the South Pole, it's stepping on the moon.
It is Hacking at its finest.
-f
-f
www.blackant.net
What next? Will punched cards come back in vogue?
What you're saying doesn't sound as trollish as it does stupid.
I paid $240 for a 600 Mhz PIII and overclocked it to 800 Mhz, which at the time cost about $550 - stock cooling, no mods at all. All it took was bumping the FSB (Front Side Bus) from 100 Mhz to 133 Mhz, and the CPU temp only went up about 4 degrees.
So what, pray tell, was a waste of time about that?