Actually sorta Turbocharged PC

It's not often you get to see two obsessive mod cultures properly mashed up together like this, but Mark Purney grafted the turbocharger from a late 90's Mitsubishi Eclipse onto a PC for use as a case fan. Doesn't actually turbocharge anything -- especially since you wouldn't actually want to pressurize the inside of a PC -- Mark says he put this mod together because was tired of seeing ads for "turbocharged" PCs, a term that doesn't really mean much in the context of computing. And believe us, if there's one thing we're about, it's respecting the integrity of the word "turbocharged."

[Via AutoBlog and HackedGadgets]

[Dickson @ Apr 1st 2007 8:17AM]

Nice...

[zeromecha @ Apr 1st 2007 9:43PM]

Wow, this is months old lol

[freakyterrorist @ Apr 1st 2007 8:47AM]

Pretty Cool

How many MPG does it get? maybe someone should make a hybrid!

[Tobbe @ Apr 1st 2007 8:56AM]

"How many MPG does it get?"
I guess that depends on the size of the harddrive and the length of the mpgs... *rolleyes*

[freakyterrorist @ Apr 1st 2007 9:04AM]

Miles Per Gallon, ya know like how much fuel the turbo charger uses *rolleyes*

[Tobbe @ Apr 1st 2007 9:18AM]

Hehe, yeah, I know :) It was just an attempt at a really stupid joke, hence the rolleyes :p

[Ayle @ Apr 1st 2007 2:36PM]

You sir don't know how to recognize a good joke....

[jcg @ Apr 1st 2007 10:14AM]

How much boost does it run? When will nos be installed?

[Max @ Apr 1st 2007 10:35AM]

"And believe us, if there's one thing we're about, it's respecting the integrity of the word "turbocharged" AMEN!

[Cory @ Apr 1st 2007 11:04AM]

Except the turbocharger is attached to a motor and not powered by exhaust gases, which makes it a supercharger with a useless turbine attached.

[Alex @ Apr 1st 2007 12:23PM]

i wonder if it actually blows air in really fast...ofcourse not too fast to destroy the insides...but still lol

[catfish @ Apr 1st 2007 1:39PM]

would be a lot more efficient to run it backwards i think, suck air from the computer and pump it out, could get a higher flow rate w/o destroying stuff that way i think.

and besides, a turbo heats up air as it compresses it, so running it forwards would just heat up the computer, lol.

[Carl M @ Apr 1st 2007 2:17PM]

Wouldn't adding one of those cone air filters protect the internals and make it perform better than the stock filter?

[Moff @ Apr 1st 2007 3:04PM]

I bet it is only a Pentium 2... and he will still think he is faster than every other computer out there and will insist on racing you!

[Evan @ Apr 1st 2007 11:44PM]

"turbocharged PCs, a term that doesn't really mean much in the context of computing."

Back in the 286/386 era, many PCs had a "turbo" button to switch between the full MHz of the CPU, and a slower MHz so that old games would play at their intended speed.

[macona @ Apr 3rd 2007 2:05PM]

Technically this would be a supercharger. Turbos are exhaust driven. Supers are driven by either the engine or a motor.