Re: Re: [OT] Water or refrigeration PC cooling

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>
> But where does the heat go once it reaches the sides of the 'tank'?
> Won't you just end up with your processor just sitting in a bath of
> hot gloop? Or is the gloop circulating through some cooling unit? If
> it's circulating then how is it any more efficient that some of the
> other 'pump' based solutions

My current plan is to use the thermal motion of the liquid to force the
coolant through a drilled out heatsink block on the top of the PC,
returning
the cooled liquid to the bottom of the tank again.. I might need to use a
small pump to help things along...

Basically, it won't be *any* more efficient than a pumped water system, or
even a decent air cooled rig...

...but it will be undeniably cool, strange, and artistic :)

I suppose there's an HA opening there.... how many of our projects are done
for no other reason than to look utterly cool? Personally, I'd class Ian
B's
blue LED Light's on the steps in that camp... a PIR switched halogen
floodlamp would provide more illumination, but wouldn't look anywhere near
as good...

I.