madness or brilliance, help me decide.

[scotteeeG]

Soak Your PC in Mineral Oil: Puget Systems Announces DIY Aquarium Cooling


Like WOW!!!!!!!!!

And I guess if that is a wee bit out of your budget you could always try






I deep fried my computer, literally! - [H]ard|Forum

I think I am settled on hell yeah!!

[ShyguyXPC]

old news, but yeah, was pretty cool when I first heard about that. one of my friends online wanted to see about doing this as well, but never got around to it.

if your wanting, you could give that a try with your old P4 system. then maybe try some OCing with it too.

Still, personally, its still not as cool as Frying an Egg on an Xbox 360's CPU/GPU heatsink LOL...

NOW THAT IS COOL...

[scotteeeG]

Shy, that's an awesome idea. I have a fishtank exactly the same as that one with a red lid, will have a spare 400w PSU from my new case and pretty much everything else I need exept oil. Will get oil and then go for it. Thank god my fish died last week! Will replace the swollen capacitor on the board if that fails use te msi board, gonna be awesome!

[scotteeeG]

Took a look at youtube aswell. Shame for all the xbox owners out there. Never have that prob with a playstation.

[ShyguyXPC]

different hardware better cooling design, could be a few factors. but the Playstations, at least the PS3 anyways, can heat up pretty good if used for extended time.

I've cracked open a 360 before, and was appalled by the lack of air flow to the heatsinks, and other components, and could only think to myself, WTF was Microsoft Thinking, a company Built on the PC industry, and prior to the original Xbox, has had more than its fair share of gaming experience... and came up with this pathetic layout and design for the internals, the GPU if I remember is under that low flat heatsink they fried the egg on, the CPU lies under the BIG heatsink with the Heatpipe.

neither utilizes any kind of active airflow, which is why the damn thing over heats, plus the so called side vents on the top and bottom of the 360, when stood up right, on the outside look like vents for airflow, but in reality the internal metal lining for the case actually blocks the airflow from those vents, so its no wonder the 360 overheats and fries so much.

[scotteeeG]

Well I guess then that the key reason my ps2 is still going is that it has a fan. Never liked the slimline one very muck. Feels poorly built. Same with everything I guess. I did not actually notice that the xbox did not have any other cooling. All the vids I looked at it had already been stripped down. Now there's a good use for oil cooling. Or at least some old fashioned water cooling with a nice green uv coolant. Anybody want to sponsor an xbox? Ill make it happen then sell my design.

[ShyguyXPC]

Look around and you could find the Lian Li Xbox 360 case, Lian Li Industrial Co., Ltd.

its hard to find at a lot of retailers since its been discontinued, but you can swap all the 360 parts into the case, and even mod it with Water cooling.

[scotteeeG]

Hmmmmmm.. gonna see what i can find. perhaps i could even come up with a mob people will be willing to pay for...lol..money for fun, could it get better..

[scotteeeG]

crap. i meant mod. lol. small damn netbook keyboard... I HATE NETBOOKS, LAPTOPS AND NOTEBOOKS. why anyone wanted to steer away from the good old desktop i will never understand. laptops not even good for gaming. whats the use...

[ShyguyXPC]

light gaming on the go is fine, but hardcore gaming, you can forget about it.

netbooks, I feel for you, my mom's (I helped pick it out), I hate the freakin keyboards.

plus the crappy adobe flash performance of the intel Atom's, I heard about it, but didn't realize it was THAT bad.

had I known that, I would of had her buy a cheap Celeron based Laptop, with bigger screen and keyboard.

[scotteeeG]

I have to agree there. I don't know of a worse cpu than the 1.6 atom in this thing. It sux and is a waste of a gig of ram. Lol. Damn acer to the fiery pits of hell.

[scotteeeG]

And by light gaming do you mean super mario under dosbox and icy tower?

[Networker4321]

light gaming on the go is fine, but hardcore gaming, you can forget about it.

netbooks, I feel for you, my mom's (I helped pick it out), I hate the freakin keyboards.

plus the crappy adobe flash performance of the intel Atom's, I heard about it, but didn't realize it was THAT bad.

had I known that, I would of had her buy a cheap Celeron based Laptop, with bigger screen and keyboard.

Yeah, but the Atom is one mean little Folder for an SMP tray client. Has to do with the chip architecture?

[ShyguyXPC]

Yeah, but the Atom is one mean little Folder for an SMP tray client. Has to do with the chip architecture?

its not a bad little chip, but the lack of Flash Acceleration built into it was the DUMBEST thing Intel has done in the last decade or two.

why in gods name would you NOT put that it, when 90% of the web is built on flash?

at least the nvidia Ion chipset with the Atom makes up for that with Flash acceleration on the Ion chip itself.

but try finding a selection of Netbooks with Ion in it, they do exist, but they cost as much as a larger more capable Notebook/laptop.

I'd love to have a smaller laptop or Larger netbook with a more friendly Keyboard equipped with a Dual Core Atom, and the Ion chipset... so what if it halves the battery life, it'll still have longer battery life than larger laptop would. even a lesser performing laptop LOL.


Any idea if the AMD competing chip to Atom has Flash acceleration? if so, that might be something to look into.






As to light gaming, no, not Mario in DOSbox.

Your average Netbook with Onboard Crap intel graphics will run Nintendo 64 Emulators and N64 games flawlessly, if you didn't know already.

I have over 1500 ROMS and associated Emulators for them installed on my Mom's netbook, Every Game for NES that was released in North America, almost all N64 games, I think Every game for SNES and SEGA GENESIS for North America, with a bunch of Japan SNES titles. crap load of Gameboy, Gameboy Advance titles as well, and even Atari Jaguar and Lynx Titles.






I'm talking about regular games, most of them older ones, that the new graphics chips can handle with out even realizing it.

for example, some of the older Sims games, or Simcity like games, Railroad Tycoon games.

Half life, even games like the newer Portal, and so other shooters that don't take a huge amount of power, Halo and Halo 2 for PC, etc.

GTA 3, Vice City, etc.

Rainbow Six Ravenshield, SWAT 4, etc.

as far as newer laptops with lower end graphics chips go.



Myself I keep looking for older laptops with at least a Pentium M running 1.8GHz or faster, and has an Nvidia Quadro chip in it, light gaming and 3D graphics needs on the go (so I can use my 3D software to play with when on the road, or for playing some older games on minimal or lowered settings)

Preferably Core 2 Duo or similar with a decent Graphics chip.

everytime I find one, I'm out the cash, then when I have the cash I can never find one.