Water Cooling a CPU 70
An anonymous reader sent a link to a site
that has lots of nifty bits on how to build a
water cooler
to keep your CPU nice and cool while you clock the
hell out of it. Nice intro page to the subject too.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson
A Pump and a tank... yeah! (Score:1)
Deja Vu (Score:1)
Yes there was. That person fabricated a water jacket from a copper sheet.
Eerie coincidence (Score:1)
--Cloudmaster, who's still gonna put up a page describing the cluster.
Will they ever learn? (Score:1)
Overclocking is evil. And, more important, I think it hurts software development, especially in OpenSource (mostly people that work at home, on their own boxes), because working on systems that might be instable once in a while leads to unneccessary bug-hunting.
Insidious page that.... (Score:1)
It appears that the water-cooling inventor has also created a fool-proof way of crashing IE 4.0 under NT.
I attach no interpretation to this fact. You may think this a good thing or a bad thing, I simply say it is true (at least for my IE 4.0 under NT WS4 SP4).
Ok. Go ahead, show your superior enlightenment by flaming me for mentioning IE and NT on
Heat Pipe Design (Score:1)
Me thinks Water and Electricity... (Score:1)
Speed at What Cost? (Score:1)
>>The first and most obvious benefit is that
>> the processor runs much cooler.
And I care about this -- why?
>>This allows us to run our computers at much
>> higher speeds without having to pay big-bucks
>> for the latest processors.
Oh so it's to save money then?
Let me just say I'm glad my time is worth
more as a hacker than it is as a plumber.
But who knows, this guy may be on to something.
Don't humans love to "baby" their possessions,
like putting extra octane gas in their cars,
or using monster cables for their speakers?
In other words, this might be a good garage
experiment for a future Bell Labs researcher,
but it's not gonna buy you much more than a
"fun" project and a "conversation piece".
You have to build a custom motherboard for 200 THz (Score:1)
What Im waiting for.. (Score:1)
SpamMan
"I think the majority of wrong thinking people, are right"
The next Seymour Cray? (Score:1)
To those who think this is a waste of time, recall that a hobby is something that you intentionally pay more attention to than it really deserves, simply for the joy of doing so.
mahlen
He spent half his money on wine, women, and song, and like a fool he squandered the rest.
--Benny Hill
some people are so boring (Score:1)
Maybe people build watercooling systems for their computer because it's an interesting project, and they _like_ building things and solving problems. There's more to life than slashdot and half-life you know.
Presure (Score:1)
Heat Pipe Design (Score:1)
I'll start a post if I get anywhere!
How about noise? (Score:1)
Water cooling also takes the heat from the CPUs and moves it _outside_ the case. CPU fans just move heat from the CPU to the inside of the case. Peltier devices create a lot of additional heat in the process. Since my case will be cooler, my harddisk will last longer and I can get by with fewer/slower fans for airflow, resulting in even less noise.
What kind of grout should I use for the keyboard? (Score:1)
Thanks,
Steve
Hey, I'm waiting for ELKS... (Score:1)
-Steve
Heat transfer? (Score:1)
Any chemists out there care to comment?
The next Seymour Cray? (Score:1)
I believe he immersed the components in freon. Moreover someone later on used a faucet to direct fast flowing freon onto panels.
We can all read abt in the book called 'Superman'. It talks abt Seymour Cray and his life dealing in Supercomputers.
[JASON@CHAW]
Fish are not hygenic (Score:1)
Actually, I suppose a balanced ecosystem would
be pretty hygienic (if the fish stayed alive, that
would be a good sign). Just need to make sure to
have a good aquarium filter and direct the clean
water output to the heat sink input.
As far as conversation pieces go, I think that
the fish tank adds a nice Rube Goldbergian touch.
Fish are not hygenic (Score:1)
slimey solution (Score:1)
while they were fully submerged and saturated!
Maybe canola oil is tommorrow's space-age
material for keeping electrical contacts clean...
You never know... (=
- Chris the accomplice
While we're discussing water... (Score:1)
MacQuarium (Score:1)
_sixt_ wall is a good idea. (Score:1)
is a pretty good idea. The problem with heatsinks
is that they tend to fall off unnoticed. (except mine, which I glued on with SuperGlue...)
Your CPU is outdated long before the metal plate corrodes enough to become a problem. Besides, you could paint it with some heat-conducting stuff...
Ignorance is even more evil (Score:1)
Knowledge it power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil!
Re: moving parts? (Score:1)
HTH...
The next Seymour Cray? (Score:1)
Fish are not hygenic (Score:1)
That's what I was intending to do; run the water through a filter before going to the processors. After reading the article, however, I'm actually considering having a seperate, closed system for cooling, and a radiator-type thing sitting under the gravel in the fish tank, so the cooler's water should be fine.
Intel's Turn (Score:1)
Way to go intel!!!
Alternitive to Water Cooling (Score:1)
Me thinks Water and Electricity... (Score:1)
Tell that to Cray.
ROFLMAOPIMP!!!! (Score:1)