Mac OS 9 Discussion > CPU
MDD Water cooling
Custos:
Just put the MDD inside a mini fridge.. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgT_zcsrCj0
Metrophage:
--- Quote from: custos on December 24, 2014, 02:12:45 PM ---Just put the MDD inside a mini fridge.. lol
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This may or not be joke, but there are some things which can go drastically wrong with chilling a computer directly in a fridge or freezer. Differences in temperature can cause condensation on the board and components, which would be not-so-good. Also, as it starts to freeze, not only mechanical things such as rotational media freeze, chemical reactions such as capacitors lose their effectiveness.
For total system immersion cooling, I would sooner consider one of those mineral oil baths. The trick then is breaking out your connectors so that they aren't in the oil.
blemk:
Lol.. Fridge.. Yeah, I have worked with peltier (TEC) and refrigerant cooling of CPUs in years long past.. Temperature extremes have to be dealt with very carefully when by electronics.
The water cooling, discounting my mounting and little bit of modification to the stock H80 kit, ran me all of $50 (got the refurbed Corsair H80 cheap). The rest.. Well. Going for PowerMac G4 upgraded with modern hardware options.. SATA as much as possible (even cd/dvd) and more so the power supply and cooling. I have a nice little corsair h60 (much smaller radiator) bound for either the GF4 TI4600 or the 7800 OC to keep that quiet.. Think I have enough space inside that little MDD case yet to do it too. ;D So I don't see it as extreme at all. ;)
Custos:
It was a joke, :P But it can be done. Not really worth the effort though.
I like the mineral oil Idea. Seems easy an cheap. Plus it looks cool too. drawback is its too much of a mess if anything needs serviced.
Syntho:
How much more quiet is the MDD after applying all of that?
I'm in the predicament that I simply can't extend all of the cables and move the powermac out of the room since I have a Pro Tools rig that comes with a proprietary 12-15ft cable and it can NOT be extended.
I'm looking into getting a 2002 QS 933 machine and I'd love to silence it. I didn't realize you could put in just any ol' power supply like that.
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