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Water Cooled Power Supply

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the void-your-warranty-and-burn-down-the-house dept.

lmd writes "Digital-Explosion has an article with step-by-step instructions on how to cool a power supply with water (yes, water) instead of fans/heatsinks to make it quieter. Please read the warning and disclaimer (and buy insurance if you don't have any) if you decide to try this at home."

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  1. Water cooled? What wusses by Hairy_Potter · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm holding out for a liquid sodium cooled computer, just like valves on decent cars.

    1. Re:Water cooled? What wusses by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heck, go for broke. Use a combination of sodium and water.

  2. Digital Explosion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I guess a site called Digital Explosion is really the best suited to report this.

  3. Geez by EvilStein · · Score: 5, Funny

    9 minutes later, and it's Slashdotted already.

    I guess those water cooled things *still* don't hold up.

    Some web server somewhere has probably just evaporated in a cloud of steam.

  4. hmmmm by Phosphor3k · · Score: 4, Funny
    CGI-limits reached, please try again later!
    If thats what happens when I water cool my PSU, forget that!
  5. Re:Toilet-Water CPU (and PSU) Cooler by HisMother · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Place a small bucket inside the toilet tank. Put a submersible pump in there, run the water to the CPU coolers, bring the water back and drain it over the bucket in the tank.
    OK, this takes care of the terminal in my powder room. How about the rest of the network? Maybe I could have a toilet installed in my office. Come to think of it that's not such a bad idea...

    --
    Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
  6. *ZAP* by suss · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first thing that came into mind when i saw "Water Cooled Power Supply", was "Darwin Award"...

    It'll probably end up there somewhere in the coming months, now that this has been on slashdot.

  7. Re:I wish I went water cooled... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    maybe you just knocked off some old legacy circuits..like real-mode support.

  8. Get ready for a Computer Geek Darwin Award! by milktoastman · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because a project involving the real danger of electrocution and fire hazard will certainly separate the real engineers from the "network/information systems" engineers!

  9. Why stop there - submerge your whole computer! by pflodo · · Score: 2, Funny

    If we are doing this for sound reasons (pun intended), then you should remove all fans from your computer and submerge the whole computer in hydrofluoroether . Well maybe you want to keep your floppy and CD drives out of it. And it boils at 61 degrees Celsius, so you can visually see if it is getting too hot. TechTV has a story about building a case and sticking your motherboard in it, but no reason why you couldn't do the same for the whole computer.

    It would look cool in a fish tank with some fake fish and plants. Plus you could use your aquarium thermometer...