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Globalwin Jefi Watercooling Kit Reviewed
shockNZ writes "[H]ardOCP has reviewed what appears to be a first in PC watercooling - an 'open reservoir evaporative cooling system.' The Globalwin Jefi has a radically different design to most systems on the market. The reservoir is open at the top, and utilizes something akin to a showerhead in order to rain the incoming hot water from the PC down onto a floating heatsink. Perhaps surprisingly, it demonstrated excellent performance and low noise levels - and as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium."
Does the temperature of the water go high enuff to poach them??!
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Hasn't open reservoir evaporative been done many times before, also called a bong? Granted it probably hasn't been done exactly this way, people have been bong cooling for years - its just a little forgotten.
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And if you overclock, you can make tea with it.
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I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that a CPU cooling system that can double as an aquarium is something us serious modders have been waiting for. But how about a mouse pad ant farm? or a monitor that can be a hampster cage?
What happens when this thing fails? Bye bye computer? I fail to see why people are so interested in liquid cooling or is it just the overclockers who use open loop liquid cooling like this?
Yes, I really want fish crap flowing through my PC.
The only novel idea in this whole thing is the open tank shower cooler - which also poses the spill hazard. Admittedly the tank looks like a futuristic acrylic ventilated crab and could be considered cool in some sub-cultures - BUT - if you have kids (yeah, some ./ers do!) or pets KEEP THIS system away from your PC. If you think you have problems with your dog drinking outta the toilet bowl now....
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It may be a bit too noisy for the silent enthusiast crowd. With the pump producing 22db and the fan doing 20db at the lowest voltage, it is not as silent as the Zalman Reserator. Then again, if you used the Zalman product on an AMD 64, the reservoir would double as a drip coffee maker.
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That will give a whole new meaning when someone goes Phising on your computer!
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
with open circuit watercooling system is water contamination. Algae seems to be able to grow on little more then the casual dust that enters the water, and the best place to grow is where you dont want it: The nice warm and thin parts of the CPU heatsink.
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Up to now there's been no affective way for home aquariums to host the exotic creatures found near deep-sea volcanic vents - until now!
(Sulfur not included)
Why did they not use pressure water like system?
It would have been able to handle the heat of overclocking and woudl not need much changes..
they system they had is what predated the pressued coolant/water radaiators incars..
instead of using un environment friendly glycol you could use a freon subsititue..
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.. for "cases and cooling". God knows I'm sick to death of seeing Yet Another Case Mod and Yet Another Cooling System.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I don't think this guy has ever really owned an aquarium. There's no way you could have it do double-duty like that, and I can sum up the problem in one word: algae.
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1. install Jefi
2. fill with ice like reccomended
3. watch the pc overheat and burn out
--Oh your 'sposed to put ice AND water in it--
(seriously though just filling with ice wont help as it might be cooler and might cyrogenically freeze your fish but you cant get ice cubes down the pipe and your pc might overheat in the time it takes for enough melting)
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The tap water here in Tempe, Arizona, is quite hard. If you don't dry the dishes, you'll get lots of spots on them. (Never bothers me, but some....)
Combine that with the very low humidity here and this kind of evaporative system and it wouldn't be long before, instead of tubing, you had solid bars of mineral salts covered in rubber.
Of course, you could buy de-ionized water, but, for me at least, that'd get old pretty quick.
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That isn't H2O, it is Flurinert, and it is rather expensive.
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I wanted to do something like this about a year ago, but I was concerned that the temperature would sear the fish so I just ended up getting this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
It's worked out pretty well. One of the fish lost an eyeball, but otherwise I've had satisfactory performance. You can't tell very well from their demo picture but the tails move and they do look fairly realistic. Some folks have actually thought they were real! And better yet, I don't have to worry about rolly poley fish heads or excriment either.
-TLAY
It even came with it's own glass waterfall thingy to keep the board happy.
No neon, no overclocking, no extra slots you don't need. Just little machines the work.
Is it just me, or does anyone else out there think that an open container of water on your PC is a bad idea? I generally work with a cup of coffee or glass of Coke next to the keyboard, but that's a little different than having a fishbowl's worth of water sitting on top of my PC. Of course, I have really clumsy friends too...
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I can imagine being woken up at 2 AM for an emergency outage because someone forgot to water the server.
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shockNZ writes "[H]ardOCP has reviewed what appears to be a first in PC watercooling - an 'open reservoir evaporative cooling system.
Its been done before.
Fish Tank Water Cooler
It's nice that this comes in a kit but it's usually cheaper to build it yourself. I didn't see the price of the kit in the article but I bet you could do a lot better than that cheesy looking fish tank for less money. I guess the radiator thingy sets this apart from the project that I linked to but I don't understand how agitating the water helps disperse heat. It seems like you would be better off with more coolant and a powerful pump.
To a silent pc purist, water pumps are BAD. I am more interested in a geo-thermal (ground-based) system, or truly passive, convective water cooling, or maybe some kind of passive water cooling that plugs directly into cold water pipes so that it works as a kind of pre-heater so that the water heater in the house doesn't need to do as much work.
This is a cool idea though, if you can manage do find or build a quiet enough pump.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
The problem with that approach is that oil isn't nearly as efficient at wicking away heat from the processor, nor able to cool down as easily as water. It's a fantastic lubricant, which is why it is in your car's engine, but notice it doesn't live in the radiator for precisely these reasons.
Ummm... unless you're changing the water in this thing constantly, that water is going to get really skanky really quickly. Plus, if you put ordinary tap water in there, it'll have deposits and whatnot that you probably don't want to be piping around your computer. Ugh! And heven help you if you put that reservoir near sunlight.