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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. Plumbers by Skyshadow · · Score: 4, Interesting
    According to office lore while I was interning at Cray in Chippewa Falls, Seymour Cray used to tell people he was a plumber. If you look at any of the liquid-cooled Cray machines, you could see why he said that -- the most obviously complicated aspect of them was their plumbing.

    Looks like we're coming full-circle here.

    Another piece of office lore, incidently, said that if the florinert used to cool the machines ever boiled (so, if there was an electrical fault that flash-boiled the coolant), it would have the same effect on you as mustard gas. Not sure how true that is, but it made working in a computer room sound a lot more sexy.

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  2. Re:Really Nice Design... but... by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As well, a friend of mine modded his computer so the water for the cooling would do a little waterfall in a waterproof tank that you could see(Through a piece of acrylic on the side of the case),

    Idea borrowed, no doubt, from the Cray waterfalls, available on several machines and cooling towers, including the Cray 2.

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  3. Re:Transparent Hard drive Case? by Satanboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    actually to break the seal on your hard drive, there is a special way . . .

    you need a few things

    1) saran wrap

    2) latex gloves

    3) a good box fan

    4) a hair net (or hat) and a dust mask (just to keep the drive safe from you)

    5) a screw driver to open the drive

    go to your bathroom and turn on the shower for about 10 minutes on hot, so there is lots of steam in there

    then, take the box fan and blow the steam out of the bathroom, this will catch all the particles of dust that hang in the air and blow them with the steam outside of the bathroom, you then take the top of the drive off and IMMEDIATELY wrap it in the saran wrap.

    you can then mod the drives top and then put it back together in the "clean room"

    it is not guaranteed to work , but I have seen it done with no issues, you just need to wear the right clothes and be super careful.