water cooling a PC !

[12noon]

Hi, I just read this on a PC help site for water cooling a CPU. It's very funny !

<SNIP>
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 bugger 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 buggered thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this site. 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.
 

BTW the above is very old and i don't think it's true, but it made me laugh anyway !

[Queen Bee]

Haha, actually I've never heard that one before. Very funny

[SensoVision]

never heard this one as well It could be fake since I hardly believe that someone could be so stupid to fill PC with a water without any previous arrangements... but who knows
as for cooling I try to search for link where was showed weird ways of cooling PC... those I like most is hiding PC case into refrigirator there was also water cooling solution but water was run accross tubes which was implemented into PC case... if I only had remeber site where I saw it...
(I think it was a kind of exebition or something... maybe someone else know which site I'm talking about?)

[CoastPC]

This post was taken from CoastPC Forums
I felt so sorry for the guy,

<snip>well my roommate and i got into a huge fight. she unplugged my computer and put it in the bathtub with the water running full blast for over a half hour, it was position wear the water went into the holes for the fan area and in the drive areas. i picked it up and had lots of water in it. is it toast. should i just buy a new one. thanks for the help !!</snip>

Told him to buy a new one and chain it to the wall
Chris

[SensoVision]

good advice about chain

[erdnis]

Hmmm... I think I'll try to watercool my computer

[Andy]

Really funny.

But, water cooling is a reality in PC's I'm sure you know.

I installed my PC as part of my central heating system. It is in the airing cupboard and helps dry my socks.

[SensoVision]

Hmmm... I think I'll try to watercool my computer

hope you have some reserved cash for new PC right Erdnis? as we don't wish you to disappear for too long