[Nottingham] Water cooled CPUs - worthwhile?

[Jim Moore]

my brother put together a custom PC  build using convection pumping -
no pump or other moving parts,- and his PC ended up totally quiet; the
hard drives were attached to heatsinks and then  enclosed in packing
foam, he had a custom brass CPU block made with  a built-in Peltier
HTU, the whole lot feeding from a 500cc reserve tank. Didn't get any
overclocking done, but what he ended up with was enough spare power to
 run a few CCT units dotted around the case and a pretty awesome
blacklight effect in the  tank itself (and the clear acrylic tubing)
by doping the water with Indian ink.and lighting with ultraviolet
tubes. The temperature in the reserve tank only ever got around 4C
above ambient,  and to my knowledge the kit  still works after nearly
five years. I saw it a couple  times, and when I say it was quiet, it
didn't even register on my Sennheiser flyspeck tieclip mike and
Audacity with the  gain turned full-on.

Shop kits usually come with a pump, but if you really find you need
one of these, best of fto switch this out for an aquarium pump,
they're far quieter.

On 8/20/09, Matthew Tompsett <matthewbpt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Never tried water cooling, but here's a pretty weird way to cool your pc
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFb3uvtNiRk
> -Matt
>
> 2009/8/20 Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com>
>
>> Martin wrote:
>> > Anyone put together a water cooled PC?
>> >
>> > Worthwhile?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Martin
>> >
>>
>> Not a useful reply to your query, but fun.
>>
>> http://hackermojo.com/mt-static/archives/2005/09/underwater-linu.html
>>
>> Richard
>>
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