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and how to hide the pc to go with itā¦
Orhan Sabic
āSo, sir, tell us how your house burned down.ā
āI overclocked my desk.ā
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That is very awesome.
I would love something like that myself, but I am way too lazy to do it haha.
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If you want to have nice thingsā¦.
Personally Iād go with slightly thicker wood. Maybe 2 1/2 inches. That would have solved most of his problems.
And some veneer on the bottom of the desk would help hide it if someone went looking
That - and a AIO cooler should be low profile enough in the first place. I havenāt looked up the water-cooled build yet, but I do wonder what he used. Another big āmake it easierā move would have been to use a CPU with integrated graphics (Intel w/XE or AMD with Vega) - save a pile on mini fans!
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He did come up with a nice :euroā look to the finished project though! Love the āinlaid appearanceā of the aluminum sheets showingā¦
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Def. all in one would be the way to go. But I like how this guy did his with all the parts suspended inside and upside down. If you used that all in one water cooler optionandbit leaked, at least you stood a chance of it pouring on the floor and not shorting things out. The way Linus from ltt did his he has no chance of not shorting it all out. More veneer could cover that metal inlay look if youāre not a fan of that. Would hide it better.
Actually - I found that this guy had redone it with water cooling - like so:
and it appears to have the benefits I suspected (no bulges, quieter, and cooler) - worth a further look!
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Looks great. Not the aio solution but looks a lot better even. And again because itās suspended upside down in the table if it leaks thereās a chance it wonāt short out everything else but just leak on the floor.
Do the use distilled water in the coolers?
Oh and on the plus side you have a under desk heater to keep the tootsies warm
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I doubt if that is all it is - though that is probably a major component. They do a lot of research into the fluids, and often colour them as well as try to improve their ability to shuffle heat around. Here is a description of one:
This coolant is a mixture of vegetable extracts combined with non-toxic dyes and corrosion inhibitors. It also does not contain any ethylene glycol.
Hereās another:
This coolant is made from a non-toxic and pure chemical formulation (patent pending) preventing any sediment from forming in the loop of the liquid cooling system.
And again:
It comes with low electrical conductivity and high thermal conductivity making it ideal in cooling the components of your CPU.
Y9ou get the idea - they all have different ātalking pointsā and often different colours - but how much is marketing and how much is measurableā¦well you decide! Usually they are bit more viscous (in the ones Iāve seen) and cheap ones can drop sediment in the bottom of loops - but there you go.
I wonder how much heat it produces? The AMD chip shouldnāt drive it too hard - but I donāt know the graphic card
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