[luau] Underclocking / Cooling

[Joe Linux]

You could use two PC cases.  One for the mother board and associated 
cards, and the other for the drives.  That would be a cheap almost ready 
to go solution.  You could run both cases without the covers to further 
dissipate the heat statically.

A water cooled system would most likely require a pump which would be 
more noisy than a fan moving air.  You could possibly have a pond 
outside your house with a fountain pump that would circulate water 
through a small copper tube forced in between the fins of a an aluminum 
heat sink that would be rather silent.  If the tube was continuous or 
well soldered, the possibility of a leak would be minimal.  You already 
have lots of water pipes in your home under more pressure.  While a 
system such as this could work, it would most likely be cumbersome and 
make the PC difficult to service.  Not to mention the fact that the cost 
of the pond and pump and everything else associated with it might be 
more than the PC itself.

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

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> 3.  I am thinking about re-arranging my desktop box so that the hard 
> drive(s) and both CDROM drives will be located ourside of the case 
> (i.e., the IDE cables will be extended outside of the case).  Any 
> potential problems? Perhaps someone is crafty enough to build a 
> transparent lucite case to house those IDE drives.
>
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> 6.  Water-cooled system seems interesting.  But what's the chance that 
> the system may leak thus really messing up your PC?
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