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drummingpariah · 10-30-2003, 11:01 PM

well, guys, tell me what you think. i'm an avid paintballer, so i've run into plenty of cold co2 tanks, and they're cheap to fill, and the more you let out the colder it gets, and i was watching the fast and the furious the other day and came upon a stupid idea.

co2 - nos syle. set up a button on the case of your computer that injects co2 onto your cpu/gpu/north bridge/ram. i soon realized just how bad of an idea this was, when i remembered that co2 creates quite a lot of condensation. but i did some reading, and some special pastes with neoprene around 'em can fix that. so on to the second problem: i'd always want to push it. push push push push push push push push.... -15C well damn everything stopped working. hmmmm, i have 2 inches of frost on the back of my motherboard, and there's a funky white liquid dripping down my mobo. so i came up with an idea to use a solenoid(valve on sprinklers) to release it from a co2 tank. i also found these little thermostats that have a built-in alarm. you know what that means. you just re-wire the electrical current going to the alarm to go to the solenoid (or a switch to the solenoid) and it injects the cold stuff whenever your [insert overclocked part here] gets to [insert alarm temperature here]. the only thing you have to do is pay your $3 every month or so (or week, if you're doubling multipliers) and figure out a good temp to inject on. any comments are welcome, as i'd rather be ridiculed and still have my computer than try it and lose everything.

10-30-2003, 11:01 PM	#1
drummingpariah Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 45	?c02 cooling? well, guys, tell me what you think. i'm an avid paintballer, so i've run into plenty of cold co2 tanks, and they're cheap to fill, and the more you let out the colder it gets, and i was watching the fast and the furious the other day and came upon a stupid idea. co2 - nos syle. set up a button on the case of your computer that injects co2 onto your cpu/gpu/north bridge/ram. i soon realized just how bad of an idea this was, when i remembered that co2 creates quite a lot of condensation. but i did some reading, and some special pastes with neoprene around 'em can fix that. so on to the second problem: i'd always want to push it. push push push push push push push push.... -15C well damn everything stopped working. hmmmm, i have 2 inches of frost on the back of my motherboard, and there's a funky white liquid dripping down my mobo. so i came up with an idea to use a solenoid(valve on sprinklers) to release it from a co2 tank. i also found these little thermostats that have a built-in alarm. you know what that means. you just re-wire the electrical current going to the alarm to go to the solenoid (or a switch to the solenoid) and it injects the cold stuff whenever your [insert overclocked part here] gets to [insert alarm temperature here]. the only thing you have to do is pay your $3 every month or so (or week, if you're doubling multipliers) and figure out a good temp to inject on. any comments are welcome, as i'd rather be ridiculed and still have my computer than try it and lose everything.