This guy... I mean... I mean, do you water cool? You're a pussy. Air cool? You're a double pussy. This guy cools his PC in mineral oil- completely submerged. No noise, dust isolated to one area, nothing in between the components and the thermal interface material, and if any impurities manage to get in despite the thick acrylic walls and wood cabinets into 20 litres of mineral oil it'll most likely just dissolve.It also looks damn classy.Worklog: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=160324
it's good to see we're staying classy here in /tek/also, while that case is undeniably cool and steampunk, some of us iz broke niggas.
ITT Niggas?I am so broke ;_;
Hah, I heard of this before Askal
I think making a custom case like this would be a most excellent weekend project.The idea of submerging anything electronic in anything liquid whatsoever still unnerves and disturbs me. Does EVERYTHING go into the muck? Hard drive, power supply, cards? It would be pretty swanky to.. I dunno. Make a server room with every server hooked up like fish in a giant tank. But if there's a hardware problem, how difficult is it to remove and replace? And how expensive is mineral oil? How often does it need replacing?
>>682Pretty much all submerged, though he did have to tube up the hard drives for air. If there's a problem, I'd guess he can wash up and pull the part out; the only problem with reaching in there is that he might introduce contaminants (i.e. dust, grease off skin) but it isn't a problem unless they're conductive; then all hell breaks loose and everything short circuits. But it would be way easier than pumping out 20L of mineral oil. Theoretically though, it'd never need replacing and since overheating is basically a non-issue to him, there's very little chance he'd have any parts fail unless he was unlucky enough to get the occasion poorly manufactured component. However, most hardware failures are user error and he seems very competent.
Yeah, it's all fun and games, until the 12th hour comes, and shit heats up like Askal's pussy when she sees my face.Now, if they built some sort of fridge into it...
>>695>Askal's pussy
>>701it has a nice shape
>>695>>701>>704Haha, God damn it, guys.
I'm just going to use this thread for my bullshit.I'm planning to make the most ghetto watercooling closed loop for my loudass GPU. Would you guys like a worklog? y/n
>>948No complaints here.
>>948Post everything you got, if you know what I mean
I am so doing this when I make my new rig.
A friend of mine did this once. He said it was a pain in the ass when he wanted to swap components in or out (which he did a lot), but otherwise was super effective. IIRC it was a 486 DX4, and he'd figured out some kludge to get it to run with a x6 clock multiplier instead of x3 (shorting some jumper? I don't remember, and knew jack shit about 486s even when you could still buy them).