Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 652 Location: North Staffordshire
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: water cooled servers!
I had to laugh at the 'VWKD only uses water cooled processors in their servers' banner! Nice one. A lot of the other forums do seem unreliable.
However, if they really are water cooled, is there someone on here who knows much about water cooling PC's? I recently bought an ex server with two dual 3Ghz processor xeons on eBay, thinking it was a clever way to get a very powerful PC. The plan worked apart from one thing I hadn't anticipated - the amount of noise the processor fans make.
There are very few fan options for the processors I have (socket 604 if I remember right), but I also have very little spave above them. The original IBM fans have the fans mounted on the side.
As most of the quiet fans are big ( I gues they reduce the noise by reducing the fan speed), I have no chance of fitting two in sde by side. I started to look into water cooling. Half the PC accessory stuff you look at looks like tacky junk to me, full of coloured LED's, and heatsink fins in pretty patterns, with alternate copper and aluminium fins, etc. I thought some of the water cooling stuff would be more serious, but some of it still looks tacky to me.
If anyone knows much more about it, I'd be interested to hear from you, otherwise I'll just resort to plan B - buy some long cables and put the PC in the loft! Thanks, _________________ Regards,
Richard,
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Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 992 Location: Falmouth, Cornwall
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:04 am Post subject:
Apparantly you can submerge your pc in veg oil and stick it in a fishtank and it will work fine-So my geeky house mate says!! Not gonna try it my self but it just shows whats possible. _________________ www.faltownskateboards.com
Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 652 Location: North Staffordshire
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:
Instinct tells me I don't really want to be submerging my PC in any liquid, but if I did I think I'd go for just oil, but something like very thin synthetic engine oil rather than chip oil. I can imagine veg oil turning into a big block of lard!
The more I thought about it, the more I thought it would probably be OK, so I just googled 'oil cooled pc'. Here's the link to the guy who tried it's write up:
http://www.hwspirit.com/reviews.php?read=16&page=1
Total nutter. I can't believe he still expects the fans to work submerged in chip oil - it's pretty viscous. Surely they will burn out in no time. He's not got that far with his experiment yet due to not yet managing to make an oil tank which doesn't leak......
Here's someone elso who did a slightly more professional job, usong a much more suitable oil and not submerging the connectors,etc.
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