Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: NightShade737 on March 23, 2004, 07:46:54 PM
What is?
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: x56h34 on March 23, 2004, 07:53:29 PM
You forgot to copy & paste the URL/image Karlos. :-)
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: lorddef on March 23, 2004, 07:59:45 PM
the image shows here, thats a well funny pic, even if I don't fully understand it...
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: odin on March 23, 2004, 08:30:22 PM
No pic here....
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Orjan on March 23, 2004, 08:35:09 PM
It´s a fish tank half-filled with water, with two motherboards on plastic spacers on the bottom... In one end of the tank is a pump, or some such, probably to cool the water...
But I dont know how the motherboards refrain from short-circuiting into a pile of smoldering crap... Has the owner coated them with some kind of liquid plastic, or something?
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: NightShade737 on March 23, 2004, 08:47:13 PM
The host doesn't allow hotlinking, so you need to copy the URL (http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/water_cooling.jpg) into the address bar for it to work.
Dead images with no ALT tags don't show in FireFox.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: odin on March 23, 2004, 08:48:28 PM
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wsnm/uploads/water_cooling.jpg on this server.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: lorddef on March 23, 2004, 08:57:15 PM
thats funny, I just hit reload and there it appeared, plain as day :)
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Karlos on March 23, 2004, 09:01:20 PM
The image in its original context is here (http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/news.php?artc=10994&s=8331bde1a428ba0588f7e6457b1ebf6b)...
PS - don't blame me for the content of this site, a mate keeps sending me these links :lol:
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: KennyR on March 23, 2004, 09:03:24 PM
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Orjan wrote: It´s a fish tank half-filled with water, with two motherboards on plastic spacers on the bottom... In one end of the tank is a pump, or some such, probably to cool the water...
But I dont know how the motherboards refrain from short-circuiting into a pile of smoldering crap... Has the owner coated them with some kind of liquid plastic, or something?
What makes you think it's water?
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Orjan on March 23, 2004, 09:05:42 PM
Well, I guess it could be beer, but that would be kind of a waste... :)
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: bloodline on March 23, 2004, 09:07:46 PM
I've seen a simialar set up built into a Freezer.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Karlos on March 23, 2004, 09:14:46 PM
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KennyR wrote:
What makes you think it's water?
It's oil. Hence the fish & chips remark ;-)
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: MarkTime on March 23, 2004, 09:27:34 PM
even though my athlon is overclocked to 2.4ghz on air only...I've heard of extreme overclockers using an inert (non conductive) liquid submersion. It's a type of mineral oil that doesn't conduct electricity. A brand called flourinert is on the market.
It's very expensive. It has to be both very pure...but also flourinert also doesn't freeze at extreme temperatures...
ermm...I suppose a good conspiracy theory is they are jacking the price to 'get ya' too.
anyway....I have no clue if the above is real, but people really do submerge their computers sometimes...I think its a tad ridiculous...I would always rather buy an amiga, than submerge my winblows machine in oil...<--see there, I do have some amiga spirit left.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Lemmink on March 23, 2004, 10:40:01 PM
I belive that this is transformator/switchgear oil. Some of the specs that this kind of oil has to meet is a watercontent below 30ppm (that`s partspermillion) a pourpoint below -60°C and a breakdownvoltage of 30kV or 70kV for the dried grade. And yes is is quite expensive in produktion, at least in industrial quality.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Karlos on March 24, 2004, 01:18:36 AM
But can you fry fish and chips in the stuff?
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Wolfe on March 24, 2004, 04:23:40 AM
Soggy PC. Only problem is the cost of the water. Everytime you turn on the PC it evaporates . . . :lol:
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Morley on April 14, 2004, 12:11:47 AM
The liquid is probably something called Fluorinert(TM) by 3M. (http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-178/iilzkFV/view.jhtml)
You can also have a look at this (http://www.overklokking.no/prosjekter/3m_utstilling/index.html) tutorial, sadly in norwegian only. Nice pictures though.
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Kronos on April 14, 2004, 12:32:00 AM
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Karlos wrote: But can you fry fish and chips in the stuff?
Sure, but I would refrain from eating that stuff afterwards ..... :-P
Title: Re: Now *this* is what I call a cooling system...
Post by: Karlos on April 14, 2004, 03:39:06 AM
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Kronos wrote:
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Karlos wrote: But can you fry fish and chips in the stuff?
Sure, but I would refrain from eating that stuff afterwards ..... :-P
I dunno. If you can survive fish dredged out of the north sea in the first place, frying it in some synthetic oil heated by an overclocked PC isn't going to hurt you :lol: