A Watercooling Story

zaim · Jan 7, 2007, 05:34 AM

Found this on THIS thread

very, VERY funny.

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Angry Kramer and other members promoting water cooling- you have alot to answer

I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad

The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.

The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.

Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.

The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.

Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness

I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.

After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!

My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Conor

neezee · Jan 28, 2007, 05:57 AM

MakubeX · Jan 28, 2007, 11:26 AM

Sandok · Jan 28, 2007, 07:12 PM

He deserves to be shot

cozumel · Jan 28, 2007, 09:02 PM

A really very funny thread. People still make posts on that forum questioning Conors intellect.

It was a wind up - he never actually did it. But at the time the thread bought the site to a halt. Once word got round everyone was hitting the site and maybe joining for one post. That thread may, although I'm not sure, hold the record for the highest number of hits.

Erroneus · Jan 28, 2007, 10:09 PM

Yeah it was fake, but it could have been done with some food oil

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jan 30, 2007, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Erroneus

Yeah it was fake, but it could have been done with some food oil

Saw that on Tom's too did you?

I don't know if I'd have the balls for that

zaim · Jan 30, 2007, 10:39 PM

I can load you some balls if you'd like H3X4D3C1M4L.. I have plenty of it

Erroneus · Jan 30, 2007, 11:55 PM

Cant remember where i saw it, but you are proberly right

And yeah it would take some pretty huge balls or a nice income :P

I have neither

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jan 31, 2007, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zaim

I can load you some balls if you'd like H3X4D3C1M4L.. I have plenty of it

Erm no thanks...

I'm in Erroneous' situation... flat broke and too chicken to attempt such Tom foolery (oh now that was a hell of a funny pun)

Jan 28, 2007, 05:57 AM	#2
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Jan 28, 2007, 09:02 PM	#5
cozumel I'm dangerous but cute... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Under the waves... Posts: 3,577 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	A really very funny thread. People still make posts on that forum questioning Conors intellect. It was a wind up - he never actually did it. But at the time the thread bought the site to a halt. Once word got round everyone was hitting the site and maybe joining for one post. That thread may, although I'm not sure, hold the record for the highest number of hits. __________________ Don't worry about money - Be a beach bum! Scuba Rocks

Jan 28, 2007, 10:09 PM	#6
Erroneus Get off my lawn! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 13,417 Rep Power: 119 System Specs	Yeah it was fake, but it could have been done with some food oil __________________

Jan 30, 2007, 10:39 PM	Thread Starter #8
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Jan 30, 2007, 11:55 PM	#9
Erroneus Get off my lawn! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 13,417 Rep Power: 119 System Specs	Cant remember where i saw it, but you are proberly right And yeah it would take some pretty huge balls or a nice income :P I have neither __________________

Jan 28, 2007, 11:26 AM	#3
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