REQUEST: development specs and manuals for the SparcStation 20

#21 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:04 AM

In message <3F68D9A7.AB74C293@ntlworld.com>, Dr. David Kirkby
<drkirkby@ntlworld.com> writes
>Steven Hill wrote:
>>
>> > I've never seen an over-clocker use that on his PC. Despite the fact I
>> > never hardly use a PC, I've often contemplated making an almost silent
>> > liquid cooled machine. I suspect is is quite feasable, although at
>> > considerable cost and weight.
>>
>> That is because Fluoroinert is _really_ expensive, and not too easy to get
>> a hold of. All the Fluoroinert from old installations gets recovered and
>> reused, apparently...
>
>Well, I did say at "at considerable cost and weight". I found it would
>be quite easy to obtain Fluorinert - there are different types. I've not
>checked the prices, but I would strongly suspect that for under $15,000
>I could assemble an almost silent PC.

For that money, you could buy a pretty decent laptop. They seem pretty
quiet these days...

>
>There are other liquids that are used as coolants - silicon oils are
>one. Despite being quite expensive, it is not prohibitively so. I have a
>3 kW 50 Ohm 'dummy load' which has silicon oil to cool it. Just a big 50
>Ohm resistor, silicon oil conducting heat to a metal heatsink. No fan is
>needed.

I used to know someone who did something similar in a cast-iron bath
full of water...

>
>The problem with many attempts at making PCs quite is that they are
>based on pseudo-science. The same happens with most things in the PC
>market - there is no scientific basis for much of what gets advertised,
>but the science education of the general public is so low, and their
>stupidity so high, that they get convinced into buying some junk.
>
>

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Andrew Lennard andy@kontron.demon.co.uk

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