Comments on: Obsessed with CPU cooling: PC case with 66 fans and wrapped in ice!

By: Vleis

Vleis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:12:07 +0000

Another correction. Dry ice is frozen Carbon Dioxide, not oxygen

By: Vleis

Vleis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:09:24 +0000

Just a correction on the people that think the ice will melt and water will ruin the HDD.
The ice used in computer cooling method is not frozen water it is frozen Oxygen (also commonly refered to as dry ice) so when the ice defrosts, there is no liquid involved that can damage the electronics.

By: timhs

timhs — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:29:35 +0000

i mean the 2nd picture.

By: timhs

timhs — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:28:23 +0000

ya know that if you scoll the page up and down the fans in the top picture apear to rotate.

By: AznGothic

AznGothic — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:33:36 +0000

Um….to correct the “update” caption….it’s not a serial ATA power connector. You can’t plug a IDE cable into a serial ATA hard drive. The power cable you see in the pic would have to be a standard molex power connector as stated by one of the other commentors.

I also wouldn’t recommend anyone to actually try this. As we all know, water and electronics don’t exactly mix to well….and ice is made out of what? Water! So how would you protect the drive from the water while it is freezing -and- how would you protect the drive from water when it starts to melt from the inside out? Not to mention all the condensation that would accumulate on the inside of the drive -and- there’s a reason why there’s a hole on the top of the drive marked “DO NOT COVER” Wouldn’t covering the drive in ice be covering the hole?

By: dmax

dmax — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:45:52 +0000

This casing will accumulate dust and cover your pc parts in few days, dust insulates the heat from venting out, also compromises contacts. Too low temperatures affects mecahanical moving parts of cd dvd drives and hardisks, SSDs might be a better solution, How about modify a refs’ freezer into a computer casing, now i think no one has ever done that.

By: OMGWTFBBQPWN

OMGWTFBBQPWN — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:26:37 +0000

dont those fans make shit loads of noise?

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By: akami

akami — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:36:08 +0000

fuck u imposible can do like tat o0o

By: rodo

rodo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:01:59 +0000

lol ready, for ubersupermega hyper overclocking xDDDDDD

By: lukulus

lukulus — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:17:20 +0000

It looks like you forgot about the 10 coolers on the bottom, so there are even 76 of them!

By: linuxamp

linuxamp — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:29:06 +0000

Freezing your hard drive will not help. According to this massive google hard drive study, temperature is not as closely linked to hard drive failure as many think. In fact running a little warm may actually be good for the drive.

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

By: ketyung

ketyung — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:58:00 +0000

Another weird method, Double boil hard drive to recover data

By: shoop

shoop — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:40:12 +0000

i wanna see benchmarks. haha

By: J-Mac

J-Mac — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:52:17 +0000

The ice covered hard drive was from an old joke about freezing your hard drive to recover a broken drive… supposed to just baggie it, not dunk it

I’m hoping that ppl on this site realize that. If not, go surf birdwatching sites cuz tech is not for you!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:21:51 +0000

What about the ice thawing and the resulting water screwing up the lot?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:02:19 +0000

Uhh.. wouldn’t freezing a hard drive in ice break it somehow? Aren’t there ratings for that?

Anyway, I think the computer case should be frozen in ice, then the pars put in and the fans on the outside. THEN it would be super cold.

By: Drake

Drake — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:18:43 +0000

thats freaking awsome

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:22:25 +0000

That ice picture isn’t a complete computer, it’s just a single hard drive.

Note the standard molex connection for power in, and also the IDE connection. Oh, and the fact that it DOESN’T EVEN RESEMBLE A COMPUTER, it’s obviously the size and shape of a harddrive…

By: jim

jim — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:40:52 +0000

So cool. (no pun intended). thanks for sharing.