Liquid-cooling ...

[Crossy]

My youngest in the UK is building his new PC, no expense spared (he's heavily in to flight-sim and other gaming).

 

He sent me some photos.

 

My first impression?

Where does it dispense the coffee??

His reaction was unprintable!

 

 

 

 

[impulse]

He needs to send you some photos with the lights out.  Some of the cooling systems could double as light shows.

 

Gotta admit, I'm not a gamer.  Never have been.  As a consequence, I cut my computer costs by half, buying last year's CPU.  If I paid double for this year's, I'm still behind the 8 ball in 6 months or so.  With fingers crossed that my socket will accept next year's CPU.

 

 

Edited March 17 by impulse

[brianthainess]

At first I thought this was about cars, or beer going by the Title.

[OneMoreFarang]

I guess as a teenager all this makes sense and I also liked a good show when I was young.

 

In real life, air cooling is just fine. My current PC, now 7 years old, is overclocked to 4.5GHz, with air cooling, and it works just fine.

IMHO there is no need to cool with water as long as air works just fine.

 

 

 

[degrub]

Best is to dunk the whole thing in a nonconductive liquid bath. 
 

[Korat Kiwi]

The sky is the limit when it comes to mod'ding computers.  My youngest son is right into it and is now employed by a computer manufacturer in NZ. 

 

Small but high end stuff, bit of a niche market really. 

 

Imbi towers in KL was a great place to shop for the latest parts.  I use to go there quite a bit when working in the ME during my transit back to NZ. 

 

Nowadays I just stick to a mini system.  Nothing flash but it works. 

[TroubleandGrumpy]

Dont worry - he will grow up one day and join the real world - hopefully.

[Ralf001]

3 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Dont worry - he will grow up one day and join the real world - hopefully.

 

Am in the process of water cooling one of my 3D printers... last time I watercooled anything was a PC 10 yrs ago !

 

[TroubleandGrumpy]

33 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Am in the process of water cooling one of my 3D printers... last time I watercooled anything was a PC 10 yrs ago !

 

What do you 'print' on that? Genuinely interested.

I assume you dont play computer games 24/7 in Thailand.

   

[Ralf001]

3 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

 

What do you 'print' on that? Genuinely interested.

I assume you dont play computer games 24/7 in Thailand.

   

 

Mostly prototyping jig fixtures for my work.

Ive never played a computer game.

[ChaiyaTH]

Liquid cooling is the best, I even do it myself right now by sitting in the waterfall while working.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

8 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Mostly prototyping jig fixtures for my work.

Ive never played a computer game.

Interesting - may I ask what work - designing parts for manufacturing? I have looked at 3d printers and they amaze me - a brilliant innovation - never used one though.  I worked in IT&T and Computers from 1970s to 2010s - saw a lot of innovations. 

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Interesting - may I ask what work - designing parts for manufacturing? I have looked at 3d printers and they amaze me - a brilliant innovation - never used one though.  I worked in IT&T and Computers from 1970s to 2010s - saw a lot of innovations. 

Fixtures for manufacturing. I don't design the parts.

Automotive industry.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Fixtures for manufacturing. I don't design the parts.

Automotive industry.

Sounds interesting - thanks.

[OneMoreFarang]

13 hours ago, degrub said:

Best is to dunk the whole thing in a nonconductive liquid bath. 
 

 

[Crossy]

20 hours ago, degrub said:

Best is to dunk the whole thing in a nonconductive liquid bath. 

 

The Cray-1, the original "Supercomputer" used this technique with a CFC fluid called "Fluoroinert".