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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2009, 03:29:03 PM »
Not through the wall.  Through a corner of the window frame and then outside.

I've seen one setup that acts very much like a heat pump, using ground water in a closed loop.   =D

I know of some folks who bought surplus dormitory refrigerators and ran their overclocked gaming rigs inside.

One setup has the system, sans case, in an aquarium full of mineral oil for cooling.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/gfx/submersion/gallery/Submerged008.jpg 

I may just settle with a Koolance Exos 3-fan system. It looks pretty modular, although I'm somewhat confused about the plumbing for multiple Socket 603/604 Xeon waterblocks.  Series, parallel, tubing diameter, etc.

Then there are the hard drive heat exchangers, the waterblock for the Radeon(s), integrating the Exos into the UPS power-down circuit, and other stuff.

We'll see.  We have 5 of these machines in Casa de' G-98, and they're all in use at various times throughout a given day.  Mine is the guinea pig with respect to upgrades, of course.  ;)

 
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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2009, 04:12:26 PM »
Ah.... satisfaction. =D

Big monitors are great.
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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2009, 08:05:56 PM »
Any of you guys try video screens? I'm seriously tempted to try a 32" bolted to the wall. Or larger...
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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2009, 09:07:21 PM »
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One setup has the system, sans case, in an aquarium full of mineral oil for cooling.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/gfx/submersion/gallery/Submerged008.jpg 

I had no idea you could cool electronics in an oil bath...

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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2009, 04:45:16 PM »
I had no idea you could cool electronics in an oil bath...

As long as the oil's non-conductive, sure.  One of the "extreme" magazine rigs (this past year's Maximum PC Dream Machine, I think it was?) did an oil-cooled rig, I think.  Theirs was contained in an actual case, though, not submerged in an aquarium.

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Re: NewEgg order... :-)
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2009, 04:50:54 PM »
Any of you guys try video screens? I'm seriously tempted to try a 32" bolted to the wall. Or larger...

You mean projectors onto a screen, such as in high end home theater?  If so, that's what we do in the NOC for monitoring systems.

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