Water cooled computer
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Water cooled computer
Pinched this from another website, from reading the replies and this loons follow up posts it seems he is not joking, the whole thread is to long to copy and paste.
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad
The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a ****** to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.
Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness
I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.
After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!
My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated
Conor
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad
The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a ****** to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.
Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness
I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.
After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!
My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated
Conor
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This reminds me of the old tech support calls that became famous 10 years ago.
My favorites were:
The guy who used automotive lubricant on the inside of his computer because he wanted to make it faster.
The guy who sawed off the back of his MAC to get in new Ram.
Or the guy who insisted he would be refunded for his broken and smashed computer because it had caused him to get angry, so it was the computers malfunction that led to its demise.
And lastly, my personal favorite, the guy that threatened to come down and personally kill everyone at Microsoft for the rudeness of the tech guy on his tech support call to Apple.
My favorites were:
The guy who used automotive lubricant on the inside of his computer because he wanted to make it faster.
The guy who sawed off the back of his MAC to get in new Ram.
Or the guy who insisted he would be refunded for his broken and smashed computer because it had caused him to get angry, so it was the computers malfunction that led to its demise.
And lastly, my personal favorite, the guy that threatened to come down and personally kill everyone at Microsoft for the rudeness of the tech guy on his tech support call to Apple.
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Reminds me of when my ten year old son rang me at work to tell me that "there was something wrong with the computer". I was busy so I just told him to shut it down and reboot it.
Five minutes later he called me back. He calmly said: "Dad, it's no good, the smoke's still coming out the back".
And it was !!
Five minutes later he called me back. He calmly said: "Dad, it's no good, the smoke's still coming out the back".
And it was !!
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I like the story about the guy who called tech support to say his server was down. The tech guy asked him to go and do something to the server, and the guy refused... "I can't get down there, the rooms full of water !!!"