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."

fuckin ricers

[Anonymous Coward]

those stickers won't give you extra hp

So...

[rusty_razor]

If you leave the radiator attached to the car, you could drive your PC to LAN parties!

Well that makes me feel better.

[Kenja]

After having seen that guys work station, I feel better about he mess in my apartment.

Heh...

[TWX]

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...

Hmmm

[ShatteredDream]

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...

I'll give someone $5...

[Zoc_All_Alone]

I'll give someone $5 if they can do this with a VW beetle radiator :P

Water bogged.

[Anonymous Coward]

"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.

D'oh

[Realistic_Dragon]

$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.

Re:This sounds a little extreme

[Edie O'Teditor]

i have an old porche i can use for this..

Porche? Pah - I've got a verandah!

wife or girlfriend

[rshimizu12]

The real question his how long will your wife or girlfriend put up with a car radiator in the house...????

universal solution:

[to_kallon]

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.

Re:Water bogged.

[MachDelta]

Actually, the car could probably still go somewhere - it just wouldn't make it back. ;)

Re:My god

[kingkade]

Why?

Because his VW was in the shop.

Re:what a mess

[gnuman99]

I showed the pictures to my wife so that she stops complaining about the mess in my room.

I think you meant s/wife/mom/

Aquarium

[HermanAB]

Why not just heat your tropical aquarium with it?

Or even better, a hot tub? At least that may get you a girlfriend...

And people wonder why the GNAA declares war

[Gothmolly]

My favorite quote:

you should've used a GM rad lol that toyota one will give out lol

What the fsck does this mean?

What is this "overkill"?

[Chas]

Silly geekboy! There is no such thing as "overkill".

There's only "kill" with greater and greater measures of assurance.

Re:I'll give someone $5...

[SuperBanana]

I'll give someone $5 if they can do this with a VW beetle radiator :P

I'll give them $20 if they manage to do it with a VW beetle.

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Re:This sounds a little extreme

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Imagine

[Duhavid]

A beowulf cluster of PC fans cooling your cars engine.

Re:Not New

[xs650]

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.

Here's an even better cooling idea.

[LazloToth]

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!

Re:Well that makes me feel better.

[Kenja]

"Yeah, but is your apartment full of spare parts and hacked gear like a mad scientist's lab?"

Lets put it this way. I have fiber optic gigabit running in my bed room to everything but my SGI and Sun boxes.

Check out the screenshot

[serutan]

He takes that thing to a LAN Party ???
Whoa.