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Transparent Water Cooling Case
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."
Looks like a still. That boy making Moonshine?
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It can always be sold as a piece of modern art when the machine is retired. :-)
Craig Steffen
http://www.craigsteffen.net
If the watercooling system leaks, all you need to do is add some fish and you've got an aquarium.
Aw, isn't that cute, he's swimming around my CPU...
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
w00t! Now I can *watch* my Athlon XP catch on fire after I try to overclock it to 400*13!
The guy broke the seal on his hard drive? I'm venturing that he didn't have a clean room (and I may be wrong on this).
Why would you even THINK of doing this to a hard drive that you actually want to store data on? Don't you have any idea just how big a pollen of dust is to a hard drive?
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.
It's plainly obvious that everyone needs one; "everyone," of course, referring specifically to me, and "needs," in this case, meaning "lusts after."
Note that while the system looks dang cool, it's not actually finished yet (2 weeks to completion according to the site) and he's looking for feedback. Perhaps the /. mod crew can weigh in.
Wow!!! I do agree with some of the other board's posters... "where's the tap?"
(Note: I work in a building without AC...it was 97 degrees in here yesterday when I came up with this brainstorm. :P )
to their webserver, it seems to need some serious help right about now.
The running score in the battle between Slashdotting and Webservers might look something like this:
Slashdot 4^12/Webservers 4
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
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.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
http://www.extrememhz.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12 . Note that right now it's got the /. effect (you've got it watercooled. now let's overclock already!! :), but it was fine a few minutes ago..
--pi
It looks like the Mimbari species changing machine from B5. The case will slowly be assembled over this season.
When the machine is turned on and rebooted, then the author of the page will go into a chrysalis and emerge three weeks later as a chartered accountant.
Craig Steffen
http://www.craigsteffen.net
I thought this was NEWS for nerds... water's been transparent for YEARS. Sheesh.
Idea borrowed, no doubt, from the Cray waterfalls, available on several machines and cooling towers, including the Cray 2.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
With as often as viahardware gets hammered by
Isn't this the third time in the last 60 days they've had their server obliterated by us?
The water in the local river isn't particularly transparent.
Best Slashdot Co
The transparent case is so you can see everything catch fire as it's slashdotted :-)
-- Wibble
Amen to that! I have a VIA chipset in the box I configured from Tiger some while back and it has been nothing but trouble. Every time you call some vendor--HP, Diamond, etc.--with a problem, the first thing I hear is "Oh, VIA, huh?" HP ThinkJet tech support told me that don't test with anything but Intel chip sets, which sounds suspicious to me. Do all HP-Compaq machines use *only* Intel chip sets?
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
I wouldn't be surprised. There are kits in existence that are designed to help people do such mods.
otherwise cool, even though im not a mod fan at all, you have to admire the effort and craft.
I want 2D games back.
What's this costing? Custom case, components, etc, etc? Not just $$$ but time as well. Looking nice is one thing, but wouldn't you rather just run a Walmart Mandrake box for a fraction of the cost?
What's in a Sig?
The industry has ridden the affordability horse about as far as it can go. That's why you see more effort to go for aesthetics. Common trend in commoditzed markets is that there's tight price competition until the market reaches a point where it's hard to get much lower. Then they try to differentiate themselves by marketing, aesthetics, etc.
This sig has been temporarily disconnected or is no longer in service
Except a friend and I did repair work on a hard drive in a dorm room. We did some stuff we figured would help filter the air, cleaned all of the tools we were going to use, and fixed a frozen bearing in a hard drive.
Ran fine after that, no bad sectors.
Of course, this doesn't mean that one will be this lucky every time you break the seal on a hard drive!
First thing I saw also.
Smoke em if ya gottem.
Ask Slashdot - google for stupid people.
VERY UNIQUE, so it's extremely the only one of its kind, as opposed to being only slight the only one of its kind?
Isn't it time for a new "Casemods" category that I could add to my exclusions along with Katz?
I know I've said this before, but the real danger I see from this kind of thing is legislation that will purportedly "protect the public" from RF interference.
I'll try to be brief:
Q. How would the legislation work?
A. It would ban the sale of PC componentry to people not licensed by the FCC to produce personal computers.
Q. Who would want this?
A. Microsoft and the big computer makers.
Q. Why would those companies be in favor of such legislation?
A. Microsoft would want it because almost every brand-name PC sold comes with a new Windows license for which Microsoft is paid. If a consumer can upgrade his PC with a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive, etc., Microsoft does not sell another license. The Dells and Compaqs of the world would want it because it would put screwdriver shops out of business as well as forcing consumers to buy new PCs rather than upgrading older ones.
Q. What makes you think Congress would pass such a law?
A. Because Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, etc. have tremendous lobbying power. They would spend whatever it took to get such a law passed if they thought they could succeed.
Q. Why would the American public tolerate it?
A. Because case modders and all people who build their own computers would be referred to as "computer hackers" on the floors of Congress and in the press. The lobbyists would convince (through television and newspaper coverage) the American public that passing the legislation would result in crystal-clear TV reception, interference-free cell phone calls, and reduced incidence of brain cancer. George Bush would probably get on TV and claim that profits from the sale of generic PC clones were being used to fund Al-Qaeda and that cutting off the flow of parts to build these systems was striking a blow against terrorism.
And thus would be passed the "Digital Pollution Reduction Act of 2003."
I wonder if there really never was any such thing as a super computer.
Conspiracy theory: These Cray folk were really high-end furniture dealers posing as computer salesmen. The machine rooms housing Crays had rows of workstations under the tiles to do the work, while the sysadmins were enjoying their waterfalls, cool-looking couches, and lots of blinking LEDs. The tall black cabinets housed expensive beer, snack mix, and big TVs. Other cabinents had small humming devices and hiding places for party-goers, so passing managers thought the money spent was totally worth it.
Sounds like "win-win" as far as I can tell.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
Anyone notice that? What could you POSSIBLY need so many CD/DVD Drives for?
I Quit!
No way I'd work indoors in 97 degrees.
Instead of water use corn mash! Operate a little distillery from your PC!
Use Seti@Home to crank out some extra cycles for big batches!
"I was running Distiller, and it wasn't Adobe".
So, this is a preemptive strike. It is perfectly logical to qualify unique. In some sense, everything is unique. E.g., the UniBall Micro pen sitting on my desk is unique...it's the only one in the world that is sitting on my desk, afterall. However, that uniqueness is not significant. If the pen falls off my desk, it loses it. If someone puts another pen on the desk, and takes the first one, the uniqness is transferred. Etc.. So, it would make perfect sense to say that while my pen is unique, it is not very unique.
Qualifying unique serves to indicate the significance of the uniqueness, or how long it will last.
i mean, jesus!
If this guy wanted to be really cool he'd a a dye to the water cooler that changed color in response to temperature. Should be a good gradient to work with: 22 degrees C room temp and what, 90-100 degrees C right next to the chip?
Hello everyone, I am the person that posted the project at via hardware that you have been commenting on. First let me say that I have read all the posts here and I have had great fun reading your comments and have had some great laughs along the way. Thank you! Being that I have some extra time on my hands now that my site was down (slashdotted), I thought I would answer some questions that have come up today. 1. The hard drive mod is one that is totally useless in terms of funtionality, but there have been requests from our site members to show it. In response to the requests, we performed our version of that mod. 2. No, the modded HDD is not the primary drive. I have several seagate cheetah X15 SCSI drives that comprise the backbone of my storage subsystem. The modded drive is one that is used for file storage. If it were to fail..no big deal. 3. This project was done to appeal to our site's constituants who comprise the overclocking and modded case community. We have dubbed this the extrememhz.com "flagship case" 4. The project is far from finished there is quite a bit of work to do still. We should be finished in approximately 2 weeks. I hope interested people visit www.extrememhz.com and check out the final result and share your thoughts with us. As for me, I run the site as a hobby, as I have always been tinkering around with diffrent technologies. I am an engineer by profession and geek by happenstance... :)
I also have aquariums, so if the case doesn't work out...well you know!
BTW the site is operational...the IP addresses have been reset by our hosting company, so if you reboot your system and try to log in you,will be able to.
Visit us at www.extreme.mhz.com The project is in the forums under worklogs.
Thanks...any questions just holler. I am a big fan of slashdot.
Cheers!
You mean like disrupting radio communications of fire, police, medical equipment, and amateur radio operators in your vicinity?
Unshielded computer cases show that the person building it either has no clue about electronics or doesn't give a damn about the people around him.
Take a really nice (and expensive) 15Krpm SCSI hard drive, and do this to it.
Fucking morons.
Charles Darwin would be proud to see his theory working well! Uncle Ben would be proud, too, to see how technologically advanced rice has become.
*sigh*...
You must be the guy that drivres that 500 hp Eclipse with the brown door and stock wheels.
We really need your help
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Alright pull over. Your geek lisence is now under supension. In this instance it is best to just stay quiet and nod if you din't get it. Mods are cool.
We really need your help
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