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Homebrew Rackmount Watercooling

Posted by Hemos on from the if-you-build-it-they-will-cool dept.

Airspirit writes "For those of you who believe that bigger is always better and have multiple computers in your house, this system may be a way to keep them all cool and organized. As an added bonus, it will heat a medium sized apartment all by itself! This article at Pro/Cooling gives a step by step walkthrough describing the evolution of this five gallon monstrosity. Not only does this cover the construction of the cooling system, but the drawbacks such as algae prevention and maintenance as well."

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  1. energy consumption by jacquesm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    this makes you wonder how long it will be before information surpasses transportation as the largest consumer of energy on the planet

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  2. Yoshi's Mod by NeB_Zero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yoshi DeHerrera of TechTV has an article about how to use HFE from 3M to build a submerged cooling system for a computer. Find it here.

  3. Re:AMD by alexre1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I live in Toronto, Canada. Most winters, the average temperature is ~ -15 degrees centigrade.
    This past winter, for some reason our central heating died for a few days. My room (with my
    lovely AMD Athlon 1.2GHz) was the only warm room in the house :) It actually got quite annoying...
    my room became a living room of sorts for the family that week.

    In any case, the point is that those AMD CPU's run QUITE hot :)

    I remember back when the AMD (socket not slot) Athlons were first released, some tech review
    website had a video of a Athlon burning out in 2 seconds. The CPU went from room temperature to
    300+ degrees in less than 2 seconds. Mind you, that was without any cooling (heatsink/fan), but
    still it gives you an indication of how hot those suckers can get.