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Water Cooling Flow Indicators

Posted by Hemos on from the but-what-does-the-dial-say? dept.

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.

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  1. I know I might sound like Bill Gates... by TomatoMan · · Score: 5

    ...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

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  2. Missing a few things by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 5

    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.

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  3. Re:It's unlikely to be productive by friscolr · · Score: 5
    if you have to ask why, or you have to point out the cost/efficiency for such a project, you're missing the point.

    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.

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  4. Re:It's unlikely to be productive by ryanvm · · Score: 5
    Trollish as it may sound, overclocking doesn't get you anywhere and is a waste of time.

    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?