Thermalright's computer case is all cooling, all the time
By Paul Miller 
posted Jun 6th 2008 8:24PM
posted Jun 6th 2008 8:24PM
posted Jun 6th 2008 8:24PM
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cooling overkill is an oxymoron.
Don't be such a girly man.
first let me say WHAT?
second
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overkill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
Thanks for your slew of Wikipedia articles but unfortunately you misunderstood my joke, because girly man is an oxymoron, and well I was joking about your complaint.
guess ya had to be there
lol i get it now its been a long day, dont hold me to anything i say.
Yeah I had to ask spotlight, too. I'm glad not to be the only one who doesn't knew the word oxymoron
Wow... I hope you never ever run any fingers or other fleshy parts across that thing, loss of several layers of skin in the shape of radiator fins is guaranteed!!!
i need one of these cases, for my car!
Speaking of which....I used the oil cooler off a Ford pickup truck as my radiator for my old rig. It was about like 12" x 6" x 2" and solid copper. It actually looked pretty sweet.
Will it cool nehalem?
Well since Nehalem will be cooler than Penryn, yes!
Meh, I thought the best way to cool is to dunk everything (apart from the mechanical drives) into cooking oil.
dunk a hot chunk of metal in a bath of cooking oil and see how much of your face melts off
@v3xx: dude, no one said metal. Maybe you should check this out first:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/strip-fans,1203.html
Now that you mention it, I'm actually seriously going consider this when I pick-up a Nahelem PC.
If you used SSD disks the only thing you'd need to keep external would be the optical drives. Hack, you could even remove the fans from the power supplies and submerge those as well.
@Keith: fans themselves are fine (if you check the link above you'll see they had kept the fans for the CPU and GPU). There is probably something else in the power supply that stopped them from putting it in the oil.
thats pretty cool. my dad used to work at a place that shocked water to shrink the molecules for better absorption of medical stuff, but he said it was totally non conductive and they were always talking about use with cooling computers. i just picture the comp heating up and hot oil splashing all over like saturday morning bacon.
@v3xx: bacon splashes hot oil all over the place simply because there is water in it. Next time try heating up oil and dip a dry metallic spoon into it - you should should see no splashing.
@v3xx: actually, just heat up some oil using a bare metallic (stainless steel?) saucepan, and you should see nothing much happens between the hot metal and oil.
my first comment was just a joke. people on here need to relax a little. was a low rank really needed?
@v3xx: it's probably because the "joke" was considered as irrelevant?
Other than cooking oil going rancid, there's nothing wrong with it. Use pure mineral oil. Keep a lid on it as well. You can keep the fans on the devices this way too, they'll circulate the oil. I wouldn't put the drives in there, it will seep into the vents and kill the drive.
@barry99705: yep, that's right, but what about the power supply? What's in it that stopped the guys from putting it in the oil as well?
@Barry99705
Why would it kill the drive? it shouldn't effect the motor or magnets inside... or would it?
@v3xx
When people complain about low-ranks, it makes me want to low-rank them just for complaining.
hence the name wanker
@ v3xx
I voted you up.
Too many people around here have their heads firmly inside their colons.
Although kudos to Wanker for trying to live up to his namesake.
Personally, I prefer to put chicken into cooking oil instead of my desktop.
Looks like some kind of old radiator from pulled out from a dump. At least they're helping with scrap metal recycling and I don't doubt its effectiveness, but how about cleaning it?
Awesome. Slap an industrial-grade fan on there and let's see some air-cooled world record overclocks.
it must weigh a pound or two
My TT armor weighs about 50 pounds, and this thing has more metal in it. It's probably all Aluminium though, but still I'm guessing around 20 pounds.
im about to make a case out of an old a/c window unit....
a case or a cooling system?
I so want.
Things are heating up at Thermalright!
Anybody?
Why use this or cooking oil when you can do this:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
Ah yes, I forgot about this one.
If you are making a cooling system, how will you prevent the condensation from the coils from getting on the parts? If the coils are cooler than the ambient temperature, then condensation should form on them, hence why (at least I believe) in normal water cooled systems, they use water that is about room temperature.
I've never made a cooling system, or used water cooling, but this ^^^ is what I have been told about others who have, plus it makes sense, at least the basic concept.
Many PC users keep their machines on all day (not me)
this could replace central heating for them
I've had some good Thermalright heatsinks in my PCs. Nice quality stuff.
There will be no condensation because this is a passive cooling system and the temps will never go below ambient.
Now I'll no longer have to run the furnace once or twice a year!
.. I'll be running the AC a lot more though...
I wouldn't use cooking oil, or any food oil, since they contain fatty acids that could, over time, etch into the components of your motherboard.
Pure mineral oil should be pH neutral. Submergence cooling has the added benefit that, if you live coastally (or plan to be Teh Hardcorez on a yacht), your components are protected from moist, salty air.
On the other hand, it's highly flammable.
I hear it also is full of calories...
And mudkips?
Pfft, dust magnet.
Though the side of the case being the whole heatsink for the CPU is really nice.
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Low rank, low rank, low rank.
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