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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. what a mess by coast99 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I showed the pictures to my wife so that she stops complaining about the mess in my room. But a fine job indeed !

  2. Re:wife or girlfriend by jrockway · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is slashdot! Who needs a wife or girlfriend when you can have an uber-cooled processor!?

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    My other car is first.
  3. YTF... by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is this a story? Im not a serious watercooling geek myself but even I knew this was common practice stateside. WTF is SD going to make of the peeps with their watercoolers wired into their crappers? *sheesh*