Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-15 Thread b_s-wilk
Hi; I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm building a new computer. I'm adding a water cooling system so I can eliminate fans (not for speed). Now I'm wondering if I can seal the box up so no air enters. Ideas? Anybody tried this? TIA, Victor Since both Panasonic

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-14 Thread Victor Subervi
Guys. you're great! Thanks all! V On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote: One of my members is building computer boxes to be used on Gulf based Oil Rigs. They are pretty well sealed. If I can I will get his email address and you can talk to

[CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm building a new computer. I'm adding a water cooling system so I can eliminate fans (not for speed). Now I'm wondering if I can seal the box up so no air enters. Ideas? Anybody tried this? TIA, Victor

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 11:08 AM -0500 11/13/09, Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm building a new computer. I'm adding a water cooling system so I can eliminate fans (not for speed). Now I'm wondering if I can seal the box up so no air enters. Ideas?

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread mike
You can drop a pc into a vat of olive oil? I believe and it'll run like th wind! On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Roger D. Parish rogerd.par...@gmail.comwrote: At 11:08 AM -0500 11/13/09, Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread tjpa
On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Roger D. Parish wrote: I saw an article in Maximum PC about a computer whose ENTIRE case was filled with some sort of coolant solution. That'll keep out the salt! They used mineral oil. The PC was in a fish tank.

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread mike
Mineral oil, right. Cool but messy idea eh? On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:19 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Roger D. Parish wrote: I saw an article in Maximum PC about a computer whose ENTIRE case was filled with some sort of coolant solution. That'll keep out the

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread tjpa
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: I live on a boat. Salt air is notorious for killing electronics. I'm building a new computer. I'm adding a water cooling system so I can eliminate fans (not for speed). Now I'm wondering if I can seal the box up so no air enters. Ideas?

Re: [CGUYS] Water Cooling

2009-11-13 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
One of my members is building computer boxes to be used on Gulf based Oil Rigs. They are pretty well sealed. If I can I will get his email address and you can talk to him. His PC's are all Dual Core Atom based with a built in Battery Back up. Stewart At 10:08 AM 11/13/2009, you wrote: