I was lucky lastnight

[Wicked Klown]

Lastnight was the first time I tried out my direct die cooling. Well after awhile my Fiancee and I went to lay down and watch T.V. I turned off the one in the living room and the surround sound ( bad choice). Well needless to say I had my pump plugged in to the surround sound. About 30 mins later I came out to see how the computer was doing ( I was defragging it ). What I seen was a black screen. MY computer had been running the whole time without the pump being on. I tried to reboot once then I noticed no water moving. I plugged in the pump and thank God the computer still works. I guess some of the water stayed in the block. Talk about being lucky.

[Voodoo Rufus]

Don't make it a habit. Got lucky.

:beer:

[Wicked Klown]

That set up was a temp thing just to make sure it worked. Later on the pump will be plugged in to a surge master.

[Neco]

Luck...I guess...maybe a little..


I still remember the time I forgot to plug my pump in.

Went to play Half Life, Op force, came out about 30 mins later and loaded up MBM... oh lovely 70 deg C beep beep..


:beer:

[Wicked Klown]

See thats the thing I couldn't check my temps. My computer didn't want to do anything I had to shut it down the hard way.

[Zazuk]

That is why my pump is hooked up to a relay so when my pc is turned my pump turns on and I have the AC for the pump soldered on to the inside of the power supply so it can become unpluged. I had to do this to wife/kid proof my pc.

[Voodoo Rufus]

Heck, I did that for my PC just out of convenience and ease of use. It works good. Not if you use peltiers though.

:beer:

[Ozzman]

why not just leave it on like u do with a fishtank??

[Wicked Klown]

Because it was plugged it to my Surround sound reciever.

[UserName]

Laughed my but off when i read the topic. i was all ready to share too.
:D

[DarkArctic]

That happened to me once. I started plying NHL 2002 and suddenly I hear beep beep beep. That was the 50C alarm. Stupid pump wasn't plugged in. Hasn't happened since. I didn't have as much of a problem considering I have Intel. Still, it was scary.

-DarkArctic

[Wicked Klown]

My ladies rig is a Intel rig as well. I'm the only one using the AMD processor.

[Mick]

you can set the pc to switch off if the cpu reaches a certain temp 70 celcius in the BIOS

[UserName]

no one else thought the heading was funny?

[Wicked Klown]

Originally posted by Mick
you can set the pc to switch off if the cpu reaches a certain temp 70 celcius in the BIOS


You can do that with a Aopen AX34 Pro II. Huh I guess I missed that in the Bios.