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whiterabbit391

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Vaseline thermal grease.

Mason jar coolant resevoir.
 

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I wouldn't run it off Vaseline forever, but it'll do :)
Also, that cooler has channels for water?

I thought Dell's BIOS's were locked down tight? :shrug:
 
more pics

Keep it simple"

// Never dawned on me....
 

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They are locked down tight.

yeah. the tubes breakdown into two output channels, but only one input.

that's why it looks amazingly confusing. The little one is the auxillary shoot.....
 
Looks like the heatpipes were cut open and used as water pipes. It's an effective strategy when they aren't full or mostly full of sintered brass for capillary water movement in the heatpipe.
 
the stream is alrrrriiiiigggght. kind of.

It's restricted. It's comes out the intake much higher than that .

but by the time it makes it through the heat tubes.

it's a little steady stream..
 
I must say that I live to see this kind of stuff even tried it myself minus the petroleum jelly part.

So some questions.... Are you pumping the jelly or just used it for thermal grease?

Fountain pump?

Which Dell Optiplex is that? What are the Cpu specs?

And lastly for grins, what made you decide to Frankenstein your Dell?
 
Yeah I gotta say, this is my kind of overclocking/cooling too. DIY / extreme. Extreme can mean more than just extremely cold phase change based coolants (closed loop or open loop).
 
Yeah, tis is something I wouldn't mind doing.
If only I had a cooler that had heatpipes though :(
 
Bobnova ShrimpBrime,

Thanks for your interest. I myself say theres a picture there that qualifies me official hacker status.

((( The vaseline is a thermal jelly))))----got raided for that idea in another thread

just water for the coolant. Sometimes I use Ice water, will explain later.....

Yes, it's a small fountain pump. The size that will fit in a mason jar....

It's a Dell Optilex Gx 620, with the Pentium 4 HT 3.8mhz

and that's the problem. some sort of motherboard short and the damn thing is a
charcoal.
on top of that my ambient in the non airconditioned shop is 93-95 F
--that's the reason for all of this___

as far as Frankenstein. That's the perfect word .

"It's alive !!!! "
that's why. that moment when you hack into a system you knew little about, re-wired that fa kur , and made it work.

we all grew up wanting to be the mad scientist.
at leas us geeks did.
we all dream of a mess of tubes and couplers, and complex systems. I just like to expose it.

Frankenstein was based on that doctor way back who made the frog move with electrical signals,,, Same thing.
I don't like a clean cut box.

I want the guts to spill out, watch the bubbles twirl...
 
you can buy the heat sinks on ebay silver, some that are actually more suitable for this sort of project. Since this was just a learning Curve for me.

I've got two on the way....
 
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Can't sell outside the classies :(

But thanks, I'll look around for a cheap cooler on fleabay :)
 
it's kind of hard to say.

I've done alot of experimenting.

with the fan off, running 100% CPU, I've seen the water temp go to 115F

then I kick the fan on. It's idles at 88F

100% = 101-107 resevoir temperature
 
The BIOS doesn't have a viewable thermo couple reading,

So I can only take water temp reading with that digital food thermometer
 
FYI, I removed your for sale hint; can't sell outside the classifieds.

Crazy rig though, interesting concept to say the least. Nothing at all wrong with DIY solutions!
 
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