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I find it hard to believe anyone would actually recommend buying a Packard Bell PC.

Originally Posted by שׁםכֿﭏ

I find it hard to believe anyone would actually recommend buying a Packard Bell PC.

I find it hard to believe anyone would actually have a forum name in Hebrew without vowels. I can't read it without vowels.

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IhsouV CristoV!

I didn't even know the characters selected as a forum username were even Hebrew - just chose them quickly without much consideration. Most names were already gone by the time the board reached so many hundreds of thousands of signed members so I used the character map to come up with something not likely to be chosen yet, instead (rather than wade through many other permutations of username). Oh yeah, to me it's just X-Joe as in that's what the characters resemble and 'Joe' is my name.

As far as I know speakers of Hebrew skip written vowel pronunciation and write the consonants out in shorthand with diacritical marks instead? As a gentile I wouldn't really know. This is a long way from the topic of water cooling though.

'Karl - A Bare Clad PC Rep'

Originally Posted by שׁםכֿﭏ

IhsouV CristoV!
As far as I know speakers of Hebrew skip written vowel pronunciation and write the consonants out in shorthand with diacritical marks instead? As a gentile I wouldn't really know. This is a long way from the topic of water cooling though.

'Karl - A Bare Clad PC Rep'

Fluent Hebrewers can read without the assistance of vowels. I only know the alphabet so I can't.

Ever tried water-cooling Hebrew? It's good fun! Though I ruined a few "Teach Yourself Hebrew" books in the process

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It's admirable you're learning Hebrew. I should imagine it's both a fascinating subject but seriously difficult to learn.

Water cooling doesn't really interest me much since I kind of question why we should need to go to such lengths in order to just get a computer running quietly. I like those clear aquarium stlyed Lian Li panels you can attach to your case with the floaty fish in them though...

why the hell didnt you take it some where to have it done proffesionly

Originally Posted by שׁםכֿﭏ

It's admirable you're learning Hebrew.

I'm not learning Hebrew, but I do know the alphabet.

Originally Posted by dubledene

why the hell didnt you take it some where to have it done proffesionly

There are professional Hebrew readers now?

[maff2002]

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000287041976/

fully submerged in mineral oil

Originally Posted by maff2002

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000287041976/

fully submerged in mineral oil

Is it Mom's Old-Fashioned Computer Oil?

He got his idea from here right? http://web.archive.org/web/200202250...com/bucket.htm

This is clearly a windup, if it is, nice work, it had me in stickes for ages! If its not.... why do I suddenly think of the Darwin Awards? Thank goodness for those breakers!

Haha

Originally Posted by icStatic

This is clearly a windup, if it is, nice work, it had me in stickes for ages! If its not....

Read on, my good chum. And if it is clearly a windup, how can you doubt it?

[Stu M]

This is a great thread. I've bin rolling about on the floor for some time, may the mirth continue :-)

I actually signed up to reply to another thread and found this one by "accident". It was funny for a while and then I realised that there are people out there that stupid. And a lot of them replied to the post.
I suppose it's one way to clean your hardrive.

Originally Posted by SiMoof

I suppose it's one way to clean your hardrive.

That sounds like a good idea, fill the case with soapy water to keep the components clean. You guys are full of great ideas! I'm gonna go watercool my new TV

And they wonder why Melbourne's water usage is so high ... have any idea how much water you need to fill a case, let alone a TV?

Oh, I get the feeling it won't take that much water to get the 'effect'.

Just remember the difference between hard and soft water... hard water, or ice as I believe it's called, is much colder but takes up an extra 20% space. Not very good if space is an issue. I also heard if you put a couple of dolphins in (as long as they are the same kind and size) you can do away with memory chips as dolphins are very clever animals and will remember things for the PC... memory fish if you will. OK I was being stupid there, everyone know dolphins are mammals.

comer, while you may have possibly just done the stupidest thing I have EVER seen regarding a computer, I do sympathize with you.

I am the resident watercooling expert at the largest overclocking forum in the world, and thankfully for you I have some guides written up on how to watercool your PC.

Here are some links to my guides. Please read them in the order that they are linked or else you will get confused.

Introduction to Watercooling
Guide To choosing the correct pump for your system
Guide To stores which sell quality Watercooling Components

[Comer]

Thanks Max,

It's just a pity I didn't know you a couple of years ago

Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer

comer, while you may have possibly just done the stupidest thing I have EVER seen regarding a computer, I do sympathize with you.

I am the resident watercooling expert at the largest overclocking forum in the world, and thankfully for you I have some guides written up on how to watercool your PC.

It's nice of you to stop by and tell Comer how stupid he is, but do you have any links to how to install central heating correctly? As you should be aware if you've read the whole thread, I burnt down my neighbourhood by installing mine, so I'm a bit concerned that it's dangerous.

lol comer.. I didnt read through the whole thread (got 5 of the 14 pages in and stopped), but I am still gonna assume that your story is true (though it does seem entirely unbelievable). In any case, I was just wondering what is happening with your PC now days? Watercooled, aircooled, phase, etc etc?

2thesahck, no idea on the central heating...

[Comer]

Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer

lol comer.. I didnt read through the whole thread (got 5 of the 14 pages in and stopped), but I am still gonna assume that your story is true (though it does seem entirely unbelievable). In any case, I was just wondering what is happening with your PC now days? Watercooled, aircooled, phase, etc etc?

It was a slight exaggeration, in truth I suffer from hydrophobia (and no, 2theshack, that doesn't mean I hate spiders)

I keep my HTPC cooled with wind (of which I have plenty) and in fact it is inaudible from my seating position.

Originally Posted by Comer

I suffer from hydrophobia (and no, 2theshack, that doesn't mean I hate spiders)

Who said anything about arachnids?

Originally Posted by Comer

I keep my HTPC cooled with wind (of which I have plenty) and in fact it is inaudible from my seating position.

Didn't someone suggest methane for cooling?

Originally Posted by Comer

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

Well just read through all the posts and I must say, its one of the best posts I've read for a long time.
Just signed up after reading this post http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...s.cfm?t=420830 at whirlpool.net.au

What a ripper.

llama009

You had me fooled for a bit there, I speat my day reading funning thing about what people had done and was ready to beleive any thing. But if you keep reading any one can see it is a joke.

Oh and back in page 7 (I think) someone said

Tech Support: Hello, how can i help you
Person: Im having problems with my PC, it wont turn on
Tech: Ok check.....
(list goes on for a little while, and nothing is identified as a problem)
Tech: Ok, can you see behind your computer ?
Person: Nope, its too dark
Tech: Can you turn a light on or anything to make it easier to see ?
Person: Nope, the power is out.
Tech: Ok, i think we have found the problem
Person: Oh good.
Tech: Do you still have the boxes you got your computer in ?
Person: Yeah, Is it that bad ?
Tech: Yeah it is, you need to pack your computer up and take it back where you got it from.
Person: What do i tell them ?
Tech: You tell them you are too f@#$ing stupid to own a PC.

(Story goes on to tell about how the tech lost their job etc etc.)

Elier today a looked around about about this, I found some site (forgot to bookmark it) and it said that the story has been changed a lot, the Tech as actuly very, very nice to the Woman that could not get the computer to start. Something to do with he wanting to and he did marry her.

Oh and also nice site, might start posting here. Wonder if they will let me be a staff member because I am on another site like this one.

Originally Posted by Gorshin2.0

What a shame AV Forums won't let me "me-too" Gorshin2.0's quote. Oh well, c'est la vie.

On a serious note, I've not had much luck recently with my 2 computers. First the CPU in system A died (my own fault I believe) and then the PSU in system B died (being a practically brand new Thermaltake, I'm not impressed). Now I've been fiddling with my RAM, and I've switched 1x512MB to 2x256MB, all generic stuff, and fitted the 2x256MB in the dual channel slots in my mobo. I'm surprised it hasn't exploded, though it was having trouble booting before.

Also, on the lines of blowing things up, my brother had an old Pentium box to repair for a friend. Tracked the problem to the graphics card, fortunately we could replace it with the same chipset. Upgraded the CPU and RAM with spare parts ... discovered the mobo had onboard USB! So he got his adapter thingy and plugged it in. No boot. Tried just plugging in one side of it. No power. Smoke. Smelly smoke. No more onboard USB. Fortunately the guy already had a USB PCI card

[andyturner28]

Just stumbled uppon this thread and just had to read the lot. Funnyist thing i have ever read. You all deserve some sort of comedy award. Trouble is i am now only going to get 3 hours sleep before getting up for work. This is your fault, i'm going to be bloudy knackered tomorrow (sorry, today)

By the way, i just thought of a way to silence my projector fan. I wonder if i seal all the vents and fill it with water....................

Originally Posted by andyturner28

By the way, i just thought of a way to silence my projector fan. I wonder if i seal all the vents and fill it with water....................

Nah, you gotta take out all the fans, THEN fill it with water. Otherwise the fans will act as propellors and break apart!

[Comer]

Originally Posted by 2theshack

Nah, you gotta take out all the fans, THEN fill it with water. Otherwise the fans will act as propellors and break apart!

Is this the only thread you actually post in here?

Originally Posted by Comer

Is this the only thread you actually post in here?

I have posted on other threads but I don't have trouble with my audio equipment atm, so yeah, I'm only really posting here now :D

I got a new laptop but it gets pretty hot. I think now I've got the networking set up I'll watercool my bedroom :P

[Turbocharged5]

It surprises me to see that no one has pointed out that with that particular 'filled case' method of fluid based cooling you should have actually used OIL and not water.

See, water, unless pure, is a conductor of electricity (Tap water is not pure!) Consider your car, the water cooling in it runs through a closed circuit of pipes. This is to stop it mixing with the electricity that is floating around in your car. If it was not in pipes then all your car fuses would pop too!

On the other hand oil does not conduct electricity.

Its a shame because it sounds like you done a great job of sealing your computer