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airspirit · 07-09-2003, 09:44 AM

What you would want to do is take a medium flow rate pump and create a manifold so you can direct coolant flow over the heatsink on the CPU, NB, GPU, and anything else you feel will get extra warm. You will want the absolute largest heatsinks you can find for all of those chips as well. You will need an external heat exchanger hooked to a cooling loop to keep the flourinert cool (you do NOT want to just dunk a phase change coil into it). Yeah, you can do this, but it isn't easy to do it right. You must keep the oil chamber sealed perfectly from humidity, or you will end up with water contaminating your oil. You must also find a way to route your cables in and out of that perfectly sealed chamber. It is easy to do this for small periods of time, but extremely difficult to do a decent job with this for the long haul.

One method would be to keep the CD/HDD drives in the chamber as well, but keep a pocket of air in the top of the chamber for these drives to stay in. Off of the jet manifold, add a "water block" to the HDD to keep it reasonably cooled, and the passive cooling of the air over the oil will hopefully keep that cool enough to keep your CD drive cool (you will need to seal this container on the inside to prevent ANY air leaks). As far as the other connections go, you will need to install extension cords for the USB (add in a hub up top), PS/2 (does anyone use these?), VGA, and sound to points in the air gap and seal them to the outside.

This will be a pain in the ass. Good luck.

07-09-2003, 09:44 AM	#13
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	What you would want to do is take a medium flow rate pump and create a manifold so you can direct coolant flow over the heatsink on the CPU, NB, GPU, and anything else you feel will get extra warm. You will want the absolute largest heatsinks you can find for all of those chips as well. You will need an external heat exchanger hooked to a cooling loop to keep the flourinert cool (you do NOT want to just dunk a phase change coil into it). Yeah, you can do this, but it isn't easy to do it right. You must keep the oil chamber sealed perfectly from humidity, or you will end up with water contaminating your oil. You must also find a way to route your cables in and out of that perfectly sealed chamber. It is easy to do this for small periods of time, but extremely difficult to do a decent job with this for the long haul. One method would be to keep the CD/HDD drives in the chamber as well, but keep a pocket of air in the top of the chamber for these drives to stay in. Off of the jet manifold, add a "water block" to the HDD to keep it reasonably cooled, and the passive cooling of the air over the oil will hopefully keep that cool enough to keep your CD drive cool (you will need to seal this container on the inside to prevent ANY air leaks). As far as the other connections go, you will need to install extension cords for the USB (add in a hub up top), PS/2 (does anyone use these?), VGA, and sound to points in the air gap and seal them to the outside. This will be a pain in the ass. Good luck. __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied Last edited by airspirit; 07-09-2003 at 09:49 AM.