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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."
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.
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.
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.
"Recently I thought it might be neat to construct a water-cooled hat...something with fins and a fan to dissipate the excess heat.
:P )"
(Note: I work in a building without AC...it was 97 degrees in here yesterday when I came up with this brainstorm.
Dude, that's called a brainfart, not a brainstorm.
*comf*
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
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 transparent case is so you can see everything catch fire as it's slashdotted :-)
-- Wibble
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.
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!
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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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