Water Cooling With A Car Radiator 282
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."
Antifreeze (Score:5, Insightful)
Radiators were made to have a flow of air over them, so putting a fan blowing over that thing would greatly increase its cooling abilities. Of course, he's still stuck with old shitty car parts under his desk...
And? (Score:5, Insightful)
Would a five gallon bucket been easier? (Score:5, Insightful)
from the forum (Score:2, Insightful)
Real Porsches have air cooling.
nuke cool (Score:5, Insightful)
It's water, but it's too expensive and hot for you. It's de ionized and monitored for purity so that nothing plates out and it does not eat your cladding, that's the costly part. But, under pressure, it's hot enough to light paper on fire. That's a little too hot for your little cpu.
I'm not a car mechanic. Duh.
Do not, learn not. Your loss. Ask yourself what's the worst thing that can happen. If you can live with that, go for it. If not take steps to mitigate the worst. If that's not enough, then you might not do it.
Re:Would a five gallon bucket been easier? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I was considering this... (Score:3, Insightful)
Other thing i considered was a smaller heatsink inside a pipe with two fans blowing, again, at low voltages (5-9 volts). If the sink is large enough this would work quite nicely, but dust acumulation is a concern.
I'd much rater use solid aluminium sinks but those are quite expensive, so i still really don't know what to do with the whole thing.
Re:I'll give someone $5... (Score:5, Insightful)
They're not Beetles. They're bastardised abominations from the land of marketing. They're just VW Golfs with a funky shell on top --- decent enough cars in their own way, but if you want a Golf, just buy one.
It ain't a Beetle if it ain't rear-engine air-cooled.
Re:Antifreeze (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Antifreeze (Score:3, Insightful)
I was talking to an engineer who retired from PAX, but now does solely contract work.
Anyhow, apparently there is a problem they found out with glycol. It coats the metal surface and of course transmitters produce lots of heat. So after a period of time this glycol coat solidifies. It becomes an insulator.
I guess not so long ago, they finally started diagnosing OLD dead transmitter tubes. It is expected to burn out at some point in its lifetime and normally a diagnostic hasn't been done.
Though there isn't a replacement yet for glycol as the tubes and compoenents were designed with its characteristics in mind.
Though given he is not going to be using this system for a decade... it's just an interesting point to note.