Revengeful Lobster

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• matt:
  Wow, massive box, or tiny screen? Also, what the crazy joozor? Who in their right mind puts a load of WATER in their COMPUTER? Surely, this means that every time you want to swap a hdd in or borrow a pci card you've got to drain the system. What if it springs a leak? Do you check the system for splits after transit? This is the path to DOOM.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 1 day after the original post
• dave:
  That's only my 17" screen. The box is fairly big, but smaller than my old one. The SilverStone website says it's 525 mm tall. I cut the tubing with a fair bit of slack, so there is space to move around inside, but I would have to drain the loop if I wanted to change my CPU. I ran a leak test for about 24 hours before supplying electricity to any of the components, and it hasn't shorted anything yet, so I'm hoping the whole thing is fairly robust. It makes gurgling noises!

  Submitted 9 months ago, 5 days after the original post
• phil:
  I see a flaw in your plan: if you ran the leak test before supplying electricity to any of the components, then of course it wasn't going to short anything, for any number of hours. No sense of adventure!

  Submitted 9 months ago, 12 days after the original post
• matt:
  I see another flaw. Dave's testing doesn't account for the affects of heat on the... ahem... cooling system.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 12 days after the original post
• dave:
  Well... Water has been pumping for a while now, RIGHT NEXT TO THE ELECTRICITY. How mad is that? Temps aren't too bad either, but I reckon the on-board sensors are off by a huge margin of error, so I can't give out any trustworthy figures. I know it can't be greater than 100C though. Perhaps I should push it beyond 3.6GHz, and see if I can make tea in it.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 13 days after the original post
• matt:
  Where does it dump the heat? Is there a radiator and fan? Also, why does your PC have no adornments? (eg: Cuthulu & Chicken?)

  Submitted 9 months ago, 13 days after the original post
• dave:
  There is a radiator in the loop, with two 120mm fans attached: http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8815/fitsnq2.jpg I installed it in the roof of the case where there's a grill for exhaust. I took adornments out for the pic, but I do have a mound of transformers (I went through a phase a few months ago and bought a load) on my other desk.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 14 days after the original post
• matt:
  Maan, haven't you seen THE FILMS!? Radiators always "spring a leak" (at least in car chases). Matt thinks you put that where it can spray your PC's innards MOST efficiently. ps: Do you put jubilee clips around the hoses once they've gone over those blue connectors, because they don't say "high pressure" to me.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 15 days after the original post
• dave:
  Well between my dad and me we managed to drill a hole into the heater core, which in most cases would mean death but handy Araldite came to my rescue. Jubilee clips are a must, and I'm also sealing barb threads with PTFE tape. Watercooling systems aren't affected by pressure, flow rate is much more important.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 15 days after the original post
• matt:
  Man, I still say this would give me the spooky-spook-spooks. But then, I did buy a car that specifically didn't have any water sloshing around it's cooling system. Just a old fan on the front. I really, really don't like water cooling.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 19 days after the original post
• dave:
  That's so not extreme. You should mod your car, Matt. First, replace the headlights with phat halogens, then install sweet neon tubes in the underchassis. Add some bitchin' 20" alloys, then weld a pimp spoiler to the rear. Finish off with some decals: "Don't live life on the edge - drive off it sideways!"

  Submitted 9 months ago, 19 days after the original post
• matt:
  Actually, my car has a few too many colours as it is (red, dark red, grey, different grey, 3rd grey, cream, orange, yellow, blue white, gold, 4th grey), so I was thinking of respraying it ("respraying" it with a brush, that is) in gorgeous brown. If I do, I'm totally writing "don't live life on the edge, drive off it sideways!" on the back. I'd forgotten about that quote. On the topic of forgotten quotes, look out for the special edition Crazy Cats' Crazy Christmas Crazy Crossword, coming to an inbox near you, soonish.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 20 days after the original post
• dave:
  Can you remember what forum it was from? My googling turns up nothing :(

  Submitted 9 months ago, 20 days after the original post
• matt:
  Alas, not. I remember it was some guy who modded up some old banger with a load of really silly things (drainpipes for exhausts, etc), then got the local kids to scrawl slogans on it, but beyond that, no idea.

  Submitted 9 months ago, 21 days after the original post
• dave:
  OMG found it: http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/car-talk/116847-my-new-car.html The magic google query was [drainpipe "chicken wire" car]

  Submitted 9 months ago, 21 days after the original post
• matt:
  Wow! I had the chances of you finding that at Nil. I guess remembering about the chicken wire was the key. Man, that bonnet vent is cool. Perhaps you should "mod" your smart? ps: http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/common/people/00179.jpg

  Submitted 9 months ago, 22 days after the original post