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CPU Convective Water Cooling
biso writes "The possibility of cooling a CPU with gravitational convective flow of water is here analyzed and experimented with positive results.
Many liquid cooling systems have been experimented by overclockers to better dissipate the heat from CPUs. The major part of these coolers is characterized by a relatively complex system requiring pumps or other active devices. Sometimes even liquid nitrogen is used. I built a simpler cooler, able to dissipate the same heat flux of a normal heatsink."
He's going to be boiling noodles in a minute
Banaaaana!
It's cheap, reliable, odorless and environmentally friendly, and refills are available everywhere. I myself have been using a 78% nitrogen gas mixture at 14.7 PSI to cool all my computer components for years now. Where did I get the idea? I guess I just pulled it out of thin *SMACK*
...using sponges as sound dampening material inside the case. Who knows, it just might save your computer when somebody bumps the frickin' table and dumps that bowl full of water over everything!!
Didn't I see that figure 3 photo in Die Hard with a vengance?
that picture of a bowel of water on top of an open pc tower case is not something I would necessarily run....
Bowels of water on his PC, this is something I definitely DON'T want to see!
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Heat sink and fan, such a nice and simple system, is best when you touch the heat sink wrong and can get a nice burn!
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you could make the system safer by enclosing the bowel
You make your roommates happier when you enclose your bowel, too.
5 -- You just inherited $700 from your great-grandfather that's just waiting to be thrown out the proverbial case window
4 -- A loud smelly watercooling kit is the perfect complement to your neon light tubes
3 -- Why spend $200 for a brand new P4 when you can pay $500 for supplies and crank your P2 up 30 MHz?
2 -- That rock fountain you got for Christmas can be put to a much geekier use
1 -- To impress your classmates at Chubb Institute
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I was just thinking thinking about the same system he has setup-- but where the water is boiled off the chip into steam... If it could be totally sealed that would hella cool. Of course, it would have to be large. But, you could add plants and simple animals to the ecosystem and it would be an interesting conversational piece
You could just buy a *second* computer.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
What? You guys are still using water? I found The Ultimate Cooling Device: Hilary Rosen (aptly named The Ice Princess).
Actually, I think the best liquid that I found came straight from the Hudson River...
Although we are probably thinking the same thing..
I leave the sides off of my computer for better air flow and less dust collection, but mainly because I'm too lazy to put in case fans.
Since my case has to sit on top of my desk, this also gives me a little more space to put stuff (inside the case, out of the way of boards / wires etc).
What do I keep in there? First is the reciever for my wireless keyboard / mouse, the syncing cradle for my handspring visor edge, and a few important papers. Those are the things that don't really move.
The fun things in there are the mountain dew beer glass, the caffeine shot glass, and usually 2 - 3 open cans of dew. All have soda / caffeine in them and are actively used.
No, nothing has spilled yet, and yes, I do have cats. 3 of them. They know that if they go near the sacred tower, they get stuff thrown at them (usually a slipper, but on occasion a t-shirt if I find that first).
On a side note: I in no way have the balls to water-cool my case, other than replacing the cold soda every 30 minutes.
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There's more than one way to boil a cat I guess....
Always good to see continuing advances being made in the field of compu-bong technology.
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It is about -12 deg outside at the moment. Why do this when I can just put my machine outside my window. You guys in California have to resort to something like this? Time to move....
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Why not take in one step further and install a CPU-powered lava lamp? It's the next logical step from AOpen's valve amplifier motherboards.