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Originally posted by: Zebo
giant mushroom
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Weed then shrooms.. This thread reminds me of college.🙂 You know that HS changes color everytime I look at it? 😛
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Hmm. So why don't they just attach a mini-sized lava-lamp to the top of the CPU's heatspreader, and add some lighting for effect, and call it a day then? 🙂

PS. I don't think that I can ever read a P4 CPU spec-sheet and think about the #THERMTRIP signal the same way ever again...
 
Heres an idea.....

Dig a hole 8 inches wide, 16 feet deep down where the temp is the same all year round. Go to a hardware store get a 16 foot length of 8" PVC and two caps. Cap one end and shove it down. Install NPT threads in the other cap. Cap the other end. Get a two large AC pumps to pump water to your computer and back. Get water block. BAM! Silent where you computer is. And more practical than this thing.
 
and if it worked well, it might even have it's place, but how well could a heat pipe work if it was laid out horizontally the way it will in most tower cases?
 
surely they should just start integrating water cooling into system cases etc now, thats rediculously large. im sure you can make a nearly silent water cooling system integrated into a chassis. i mean your not gonna eliminate noise are you, cd drives, and hard drives all still rely on moving parts, so whats one more low speed 120mm fan?

 
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It's not that big though. Its LONG, but at only 112x112, that's slightly larger than my XP90. Heavy? Lighter than the Zalman 7000 series. I use the V1000 case from Lian Li, which mounts the motherboard upside down, kinda BTXish. This heatsink (and any other long heatsink that reaches across the case) is premium for my case. Also, since my 400 dollar 6800GT would be above the heatsink, I have nothing to worry about.

Hell, call me crazy but I might even consider getting me one of these, it's just as expensive as any other high end CPU cooler. I wonder how the performance is?

If it were made by anyone other than TT you know we'd all buy one 😉

EDIT: PS - the thing is so fugly, if I installed one I'd build a box to cover it because I'd be embarassed having that thing in my case.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
and if it worked well, it might even have it's place, but how well could a heat pipe work if it was laid out horizontally the way it will in most tower cases?
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Pretty well, actaully. Most newer HP hoolers aren't just empty pipes, and use textured wicks and nets inside them so that capilary action can do the work. This causes a slight hit in efficiency of each heatpipe, but allows the coolers to even work upside-down with almost no performance loss.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: Zebo
giant mushroom
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Weed then shrooms.. This thread reminds me of college.🙂 You know that HS changes color everytime I look at it? 😛
Click to expand...

Hmm. So why don't they just attach a mini-sized lava-lamp to the top of the CPU's heatspreader, and add some lighting for effect, and call it a day then? 🙂

PS. I don't think that I can ever read a P4 CPU spec-sheet and think about the #THERMTRIP signal the same way ever again...
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Sssh, they might just do that.
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
Heres an idea.....

Dig a hole 8 inches wide, 16 feet deep down where the temp is the same all year round. Go to a hardware store get a 16 foot length of 8" PVC and two caps. Cap one end and shove it down. Install NPT threads in the other cap. Cap the other end. Get a two large AC pumps to pump water to your computer and back. Get water block. BAM! Silent where you computer is. And more practical than this thing.
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You joke about it, but I saw a mod where a guy did just that. He was totally bent on getting a 100% silent PC, so he buried a big water tank in the back yard for his water cooling with a borrowed back hoe. Put all the pumps outdoors, and since the tank was underground the temps were below ambient.
A quick google search didn't turn up any links offhand, but I read about it a couple years ago.
 
I think I remember that too. The guy was in a wheel chair so he had to have his aid help him dig the hole or something right?
 
Originally posted by: Devistater
Originally posted by: ribbon13
Heres an idea.....

Dig a hole 8 inches wide, 16 feet deep down where the temp is the same all year round. Go to a hardware store get a 16 foot length of 8" PVC and two caps. Cap one end and shove it down. Install NPT threads in the other cap. Cap the other end. Get a two large AC pumps to pump water to your computer and back. Get water block. BAM! Silent where you computer is. And more practical than this thing.
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You joke about it, but I saw a mod where a guy did just that. He was totally bent on getting a 100% silent PC, so he buried a big water tank in the back yard for his water cooling with a borrowed back hoe. Put all the pumps outdoors, and since the tank was underground the temps were below ambient.
A quick google search didn't turn up any links offhand, but I read about it a couple years ago.
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I believe that was someone on AT, can't put my finger on who exactly though.
 
man O man!!?!! john holmes x6... and i had the gall to ask about a backplate issue with a zalman copper cooler (Topic Title: zalman 7000b-cu backplate - on or off ? )... i'm using the zalman backplate... no eff-in-doubt about it.... signed - scared-sh*tless....
 
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