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Transparent Water Cooling Case

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-lust-worthy dept.

thefalconer writes "Over at the Via Hardware website one of the users there recently posted a very unique case mod that combines all of my favorites into a very cool design. Not only is the case totally transparent, but so are the covers on the hard drives, and it sports a water cooled Dual Athlon XP 2100+ processors. The case and all of the internal mods are entirerly hand made and it looks awesome."

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  1. EMI by LBU.Zorro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The main problem with acrylic / perspex cases is the lack of radiation shielding..

    Macroman from Bit-Tech.net suggested that the foil he uses on one of his cases (reflective unless internally lit) might block the radiation plus give a great effect.

    If you place acrylic cases next to your TV or radio, then you can see the interferrence..

    Also I remember reading that an open case / case window was screwing around with a remote garage opener..

    Just a thought if anyone is planning to use it as a tv top box since it looks so nice :)

    Z.

  2. Re:Transparent Hard drive Case? by Sneftel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is idiocy. When you blow the steam out of the bathroom using the box fan, do you have a vacuum left in the bathroom? Temporarily, yes! And the air to fill it has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is (gasp) outside the bathroom. So while you've steamed up the bathroom air but good, you immediately discard it, and replace it with nice, dusty room air? Duh.

    If you want to use the water vapor trick, you have to wait for the vapor to subside. And you still have a problem with high humidity, which can be hell on hard drives. Even if you don't notice anything for the first couple of weeks, there's still water particles banging around in your drive, just waiting to corrode things.

    Bottom line? Don't do this. If you absolutely MUST mod your hard drive, construct a mini clean room from a plastic aquarium, latex gloves, a fan, and a HEPA and an ULPA filter working in concert (the HEPA filter first, then the ULPA). It's cheap, and your hard drive won't, you know, DIE.

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  3. Have you guys tried having sex instead? by elroySF · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i mean, jesus!