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Water Cooling With A Car Radiator
sH4RD writes "Why go out and buy a water cooling system when you can do it with an old car radiator? That's exactly what One of The Twelve figured when he used the radiator from his brother's 1979 Toyota Corolla to cool his system. His Athlon64 3000+ can hit 2.5GHz smoothly now. Check out the original forum post complete with benchmarks."
those stickers won't give you extra hp
If you leave the radiator attached to the car, you could drive your PC to LAN parties!
After having seen that guys work station, I feel better about he mess in my apartment.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
They could have pushed it to 3.5GHz if they'd used the radiator from my '78 Chrysler Cordoba. It probably weighs more than the entire car that they pulled their radiator out of...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
After looking at his desk area I'm still trying to figure out how he gets air flow to his pc...
Something tells me that half of this would have been unnecessary with 10 minutes of cleanup...
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
I'll give someone $5 if they can do this with a VW beetle radiator :P
"Why go out and buy a water cooling system when you can do it with an old car radiator? That's exactly what One of The Twelve figured when he used the radiator from his brother's 1979 Toyota Corolla to cool his system. His Athlon64 3000+ can hit 2.5GHz smoothly now. "
Unfortunately the brother's car no longer goes anywere.
$420 bucks saved in return for having a junk yard in your house. Proof of concept? Cool. Pontless 'because I could'? Cool. Way to save money? Lame.
Pretty nifty idea though... I have a Brish Leyland duce and a half truck rad around here somewhere... now that thing should be enough to keep even a P4 within normal operating temperatures.
Beep beep.
If X is the new Y, and Y is "X is the new Y", solve for X.
The real question his how long will your wife or girlfriend put up with a car radiator in the house...????
It was really difficult to attach so that not a single leak occurs.
notice the use of duct tape in a number of the pictures...
when it's gotta be *totally* leak proof, i choose duct tape. remember kids, there's no problem so great that duct tape can't solve it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
Why?
Because his VW was in the shop.
why run from Vincenzo?
I think you meant s/wife/mom/
Or even better, a hot tub? At least that may get you a girlfriend...
Oh well, what the hell...
My favorite quote:
you should've used a GM rad lol that toyota one will give out lol
What the fsck does this mean?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Silly geekboy! There is no such thing as "overkill".
There's only "kill" with greater and greater measures of assurance.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Plus with an exposed water surface you get evaporative cooling for free.
Not only that, it's a humidifier! (Handy for those winter months..)
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Well, just to one up you i've got a delorian! complete with a flux capacitor, and I was the first person on the earth to overclock a watercooled pc, back in the 1800's...
A beowulf cluster of PC fans cooling your cars engine.
emt 377 emt 4
For $19 you could buy an entire 1986 Chevette.
The Chevette itself is worthless, but at least you would get the shroud and fan along with the heater core.
Ever thought about what you could do with the forced hot water heating system in your house??? The typical 1800-square-foot house probably has, what, a dozen radiator units or so? My god, you could probably run a Z-80 at 36 Mhz with such a thing!
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
He takes that thing to a LAN Party ???
Whoa.