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Water Cooling With A Car Radiator

Posted by timothy on from the then-he's-gonna-kill-us dept.

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."

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  1. Nothing new. by Pirow · · Score: 4, Informative

    People have been using old car radiators for water cooling for ages, probably before the advent of commercial water cooling kits, so I don't see what the big deal is. A quick google search shows that people using car radiators for water cooling is nothing new so I'd hardly class this as news.

  2. Re:The reason I don't use a car radiator by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Informative


    It'd probably be just as easy to use an automatic tranmission cooler. Much smaller and easier to use.

    Here's an example

    $50, and it'd be new, instead of have an old rusty car part in your house.