so to watercool, you just fill up the tower case w/ water, right?

[Lord Bacon]

el oh el...

i got this off digg, and its damn funny.

A forum somehow convinced a not so tech savvy member to literally remove the fans, seal his case, fill it with water and turn it on. "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." He wasn't too happy about the results, Sadly, this was not a joke...

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56924

[Jux]

Sadly, this was not a joke...


Not only is it wicked old, but it WAS a joke.

Following the link you posted, it becomes quite clear around page 5 or 6 (if not sooner) that it's a joke. The thread creator even started his own poll (http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57008), where he asked:

There are no maybe's or kinda's in this poll. You either didn't believe for even a fraction of a second or you must vote yes!

I must say that I have never had so much fun on the net in my entire life (apart from playing "Tidy the tools" on Bob the Builder's web site)

Thanks to you all for giving me my fifteen minutes of fame as the stupidest person on the net My Mam is so proud!!!


and


I thought the big mistake that people would spot was how could I have opened the the DVD drive to put in the water if the PC was un-plugged. I really didn't think that anyone would believe me specially when I said that I had built a few PCs and had been working with them for so long



Funny story, but it's hard to believe it for more than a moment or two.

[Zero Prime]

I wonder how many dumb asses tried this.

[Kickback]

Wow, talk about brushing off the cobwebs on an old thread.

[Neomarsala]

I have a friend that made a working computer submerged in liquid. He used a fishtank and some kind of special mineral water or something. He didn't do it for cooling reasons, but just because he likes doing weird stuff with computers.

[MegaMoonMan]

I have a friend that made a working computer submerged in liquid. He used a fishtank and some kind of special mineral water or something. He didn't do it for cooling reasons, but just because he likes doing weird stuff with computers.
I have heard of that stuff. The whole computer (except drives, I suppose) can be submerged in a special liquid, and therefore cooled nicely.

[TSFC]

Oil works. PCMagazine I believe did this with oil. They show you how to seal the case, caulk the entry spots around the Processor, Ram, etc, and then submerge it. Kept the entire system cool for extended periods of time.

No. I don't have the cajones to try it myself.

[Ops_was_a_truck]

The thread is relatively amusing, but I remember reading about this like a year ago?

[aksmth]

Wow... Don't know what's funnier, that someone might do it, or that someone believed that it was done.

[Lance Halberd]

A little from Column A, a little from Column B ....