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CPU Cooling with 15 Liters of Water
ninjagin writes "While not an OC-er, I do enjoy reading about the lengths people will go to on their way to a better CPU cooling solution. I ran across this very interesting article at overclockers.com about this guy's immense 15-liter water cooling rig for his home office PC. Might be just the kind of thing to have the contractors include when they pour your next garage slab."
I cool my PC with my outdoor swimming pool!!
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Still having problems with dirt clogging the lines though.
On the plus side, when that happens I get a nice introduction fusion when my Athlon melts down!
i can keep my cpu temp down 10 degrees celsius by leaving the door to the backyard open-
So can I, by keeping my computer off.
Finally, a way to keep the garage warm!
Put your PC in a mini freezer. Many freezers can give you -20 deg. No hassle.
I would fix my computer at a plumber... start it with a tap...Your code will have LEAKS..bla bla bla bla ...
/*Come on in ladies and gentelmen, please have your swimsuits on*/
The lunatic is in my head
It surely gives a whole new meaning to /dev/random entropy pool!
(pun definitely intended)
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
Water-cooling? Blah.. that's for sissies!!
:D
last year I removed the case fan, the gpu
fan, the cpu fan, the motherboard fan, and
the PSU fan.. and everything worked perfectly,
and still does.. so.. for sissies!!
Of course.. my system is far from top-of-line,
and I live in Norway, but.. that's beside
the point
The ultimate cooling solution for your hardware is already standardized: the BeerBox. Read the report on this contraversial issue. RFCs, benchmarks, pictures :) http://www.ranish.com/beerbox/
Why use 15 litres when you can use 15 BILLION litres???
br. I plan to live in a houseboat and tow my submerged boxen.
Well, the problem with water is it's relatively high freezing point. I use Dowfrost(tm) (Propylene Glycol) in a 1:1 ratio with water running at 22 F (it could go much lower) through a 5 hp refrigerator/pumping station to keep stuff cold. You can pick up a 55 gallon drum of it for under $600 US. But then again, what I am keeping cool is a hell of a lot more important than my home office CPU - thousands of gallons of beer.
That's nothing, I heat my olympic swimming pool with my PC! ;-)
Still having problems with dirt clogging the lines though.
I've had no problems. You need to use a closed cooling loop through the PC and dump a small heat exchanger in the pool.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"I got tired of all the noise my '486-66 PC was making, so I decided to move the machine further away from my desk. I went down to Fry's and picked up some VGA/keyboard/mouse extension cables, cut a hole in the wall, and ran the cables through the wall. With the machine in the other room, I could barely hear it.
But if put my ear to the wall, I could still discern a hum. And my CPU temp was still consistently above 20C. I considered freon cooling, but that's bad for the environment. I then tried water cooling, but zebra mussels clogged my water pump.
Then ZAM! I thought of Arctic Cooling. So I called up Belkin and ordered 3000 miles of VGA/keyboard/mouse extension cables and ran them along the Alaskan pipeline. I wanted to place the '486 as near to the north pole as possible, but financial constraints forced me to put it outside a raindeer herder's shed in Nome.
When I first hooked everything up, there were some minor glitches to work through. Timber wolves had chewed through the VGA cable in the northern Yukon. This was easily fixed with my trusty portable butane solder gun and Kevlar heat-shrink tubing.
Back in my home office. I couldn't hear the PC at all. And CPU temps hover at just about -18C most of the year.
Now about that faint buzzing produced by my monitor...