[Boli]

OK here's somethig weird that may interest some of you.

Now as usual before I went out to work I set my computer up on one of its many downloading/folding mission only I forgot to turn on my pump.

Yet when I can back and realised my mistake the temps were fine... As I have burnt out my temp sensor a long time a go I rely on the old touch the componants to see if anything is burning up on me... but it all was cool. even the water in the systsem was nothing more than luke warm.

Now thinking about this later I came to the conclusion that the entire thing cooled itself by convection alone (I had at least put the fans running on my rads.)

Now considering my componants... black ice rads maze 3 it would not take a hugely powerful pump to pump things round at all. add that to my layout where the rads are at the top so the heated water would rise easily to the rads and cool there. There was no impingment needed nor was there any contrictioning in the tubing/layout to worry about.

Now consider this... would it be possible to cool a computer passivly (As I seem to have done) WITHOUT need for a pump relying on convection of the water entirely n a 24/7 timescale?

As I blew my temp sensor up yonks ago I cannot verify that my CPU wasn't burning out under the block but I think it is worth thinking about and maybe looking into.


Wondering

~ Boli