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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. 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.