January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
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Part I: Basic Hacks, Tools, and Techniques
Air cools the CPU reasonably well, but other substances pick up or
exchange heat from the CPU even better. Many liquids, including water,
are excellent.
The benefits of exploiting liquid cooling can be enormous compared to pas-
sive cooling. More often than not, mainframe makers turn to liquid cool-
ing to achieve levels of heat dissipation unmatched by any number of fans.
However, due to size restrictions and because water cooling is dangerous to
implement in home PCs, it has never caught on in the home users’ market.
Yet over the last year, a few companies have sprung up and begun producing
kits that allow you to make your own water-cooled PC. Unfortunately, these
kits, which range from $60 for just a water block to over $200 for the whole
cooling system, can become a very expensive setup. In this hack I will show
you how to build your own water-cooling system for your home PC, which
will allow you to overclock the CPU with less chance of damage.
Project Overview
This hack is based on work from Rob Dickinson, who designed and built
this very effective and inexpensive CPU cooler. All photos in this hack are
courtesy of Rob.
The project is targeted at single Socket7 CPU computers, but with some
careful planning it can be adapted to other types of processors. (A Socket7
processor looks like a square ceram ...
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