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MD

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Just wondering...
Does anyone knows when and how this watercooling thing started?
Who was the brave who tried it first?
What did the first kit looked like?
Etc...

Thanks :D
 
lol but a good question

what about the big inning? maybe it started with a baseball game
 
I think it started back in the early 80's but didn't become widespread with ocer's til the mid to late 90's. By the way Cray was I believe the first to start liquid cooling. (He builds(t) the Cray supercomputers)
 
Watercooling was in the very first computer (eniac). The inventor would be quite old (or dead) :eek:

I've been watercooling for nearly 4 years now, but no, I didn't invent it.
 
The first I heard of it was back in the 90's I think when a forum member of HWC forums named TNproud2b water-cooled his dual celly rig, It would appear very ghetto by todays standards, but was all homemade using copper plumbing fittings. I must admit when I originally read a topic about it I had to go back and re-read it 3 more time because I couldn't believe anyone was mad enough to have water running through their PC! Now look at me with 8 custom made water blocks inside my own PC :p

I know TN didn't "invent it" but its more a question of when you yourself became aware or it and what was the source?
 
lol, the 1st time discovered it was here at the main page, when i 1st saw it, only about 2-3 months ago i seriuosly thought the person was crazy! it was so damn amazing to me... and it looked so good, having tubes and **** runing throu ur computer with water everywhere!

as for who started it? i dunno, but hen again, who invented the internet? ;) its just one of those things :D
 
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