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I've been reading alot about watercooling at overclockers lately. Right now I don't have a system that really needs watercooling, but it looks like something I can do and may help me push my PII300 a little further. So, I'm gonna piece together my own system, which will be alot of fun.
However I got to thinking...while water is a great medium to use for cooling, has anyone tried any other substances? How about auto coolant? There are also a few coolant additives that you can find in racing and performance catalogs that can actualy lower your car temps 30deg F, I think I heard of someone using something like htat in their water cooled system.
Anoter thought: Why use a liquid such as water or antifreeze? How about going down to a landfill or junkyard or checking around other places to find an old refridgerator. Hmm...I wonder how hard it would be to run the freon from the fridge over a "cooling block" on the cpu. If you find a fridge that still works decent, then you've got your compressor/radiator/etc.
How about other types of cooling similar to the fridge idea...such as building your own R134A system? I'm just curious if other people have thought about things like this...
Maybe after I put tgether a watercooled system I'll start devising a way to use freon as coolant....hmmm...
Mike
However I got to thinking...while water is a great medium to use for cooling, has anyone tried any other substances? How about auto coolant? There are also a few coolant additives that you can find in racing and performance catalogs that can actualy lower your car temps 30deg F, I think I heard of someone using something like htat in their water cooled system.
Anoter thought: Why use a liquid such as water or antifreeze? How about going down to a landfill or junkyard or checking around other places to find an old refridgerator. Hmm...I wonder how hard it would be to run the freon from the fridge over a "cooling block" on the cpu. If you find a fridge that still works decent, then you've got your compressor/radiator/etc.
How about other types of cooling similar to the fridge idea...such as building your own R134A system? I'm just curious if other people have thought about things like this...
Maybe after I put tgether a watercooled system I'll start devising a way to use freon as coolant....hmmm...
Mike