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Your goal is to cool a desktop CPU in the most stupid way you can. Somewhat inspired by LTT's sketchy heatsink videos. (Posted in liquid and exotic cooling since I'm sure we'll see some weirder solutions come up, maybe even involving water)

 

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It must handle aida64 for 5 minutes without throttling.

 

You can choose pretty much any CPU you want, as long as its a standard socketed desktop chip (No intel atom motherboards lol)

 

You've got to run it at stock clocks, voltage, etc. Throw it in a motherboard, reset bios, and those are the specs to roll with.

 

Here's my first entry:

 

Sempron 150, 8GB DDR3, Asus M4A78LT-M

 

Heatsink: An AMD Phenom CPU turned upside down, with a 40mm fan on top

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5 min of Aida64:

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I'd love to see what you guys can come up with! This is more for fun than anything. Considering I've waterproofed a laptop before, maybe the next step is submurged water cooling xD

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I think the craziest one I’ve done is a can of Pelligrino (spelling) with enough thermal adhesive to put it on whatever Clarksdale chip it was. Needless to say that sparkling water and electronics don’t mix well. 

 

Also, they really do mean “adhesive”.

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3 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Me:

Sounds fun!  I think I'll do a waterblock with no loop!

 

6950x:

 

Why not use two waterblocks in a loop without a radiator and mount a CPU cooler to the underside of other block? It'd probably actually work

 

Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

Take a VRM heatsink or two and blow air on them with a Honeywell fan/box fan, something household.

I tried a chipset heatsink with the same 40mm fan, it stayed under 70C

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Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

Why not use two waterblocks in a loop without a radiator and mount a CPU cooler to the underside of other block? It'd probably actually work

I actually got goosebumps thinking of this.

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Watercooling, but not as you know it...

 

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i5-5675C

 

I left it running for several hours before the water got rather hot.

 

I'll have to have a bit of a think and see how I can top that...

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1 hour ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Why not use two waterblocks in a loop without a radiator and mount a CPU cooler to the underside of other block? It'd probably actually work

 

I tried a chipset heatsink with the same 40mm fan, it stayed under 70C

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I mean that is all a CPU cooler was when I got into computers.  A small aluminum heatsink like that with a 40mm fan on it was about the norm. We were hotrodding when we stuck 60mm fans to the original heatsinks...

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6 hours ago, MandicReally said:

I mean that is all a CPU cooler was when I got into computers.  A small aluminum heatsink like that with a 40mm fan on it was about the norm. We were hotrodding when we stuck 60mm fans to the original heatsinks...

Oh I do remember those days xD

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Hm, what if you set up the PC in a vacuum chamber so you could drop the pressure enough to bring the boiling point of water down to, say, 50 C (but really I suppose you could use whatever you want), and then setup a hose to just drip one drop onto the heatsink every now and then, which would be removed by boiling it.

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I know my idea, but I'm definitely not going to do it with my desktop (i7 6700). I'll take a Stirling engine, set it on top of the cpu, and use dry ice on top of the engine. Free power off a cpu!

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1. A cup of tea doesn't do the job

 

2. Reversed the CPU cooler on GPU idea...also beer to help secure it on top as i can mount it with screws so the pressure has to do

 

Sadly i don't have a spare PSU for now but maybe i find one in the trash so I can see if this works...sadly i think i'll have to cool the GPU with the Intel stock cooler

 

 

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So I have this.

At that point I start to question how does that increase the surface area and not just create more thermal insulation. Try the same without the upside down CPU :P

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7 hours ago, Tam3n said:

At that point I start to question how does that increase the surface area and not just create more thermal insulation. Try the same without the upside down CPU :P

Because the PCB gets warm and acts as a heatsink :P

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9 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Because the PCB gets warm and acts as a heatsink :P

try it with a non-LGA CPU for dat surface area of the pins lol

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Don't have any other PGA CPUs :P

oh :(

What about the one you are cooling?  Just have these two trade places :P

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out of curiosity and with no desire to try it my self. what about a high powered floor/desk/standing fan pointing directly at the CPU as close as you can get it and no heatsink?

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1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

oh :(

What about the one you are cooling?  Just have these two trade places :P

Look at the socket underneath, then look at the size of the CPUsink :P

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Look at the socket underneath, then look at the size of the CPUsink :P

I know you;ll need a different board xD but given the opportunity...

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

A socket G34 board is about £150.

oh wow, I would not have expected that for something so old

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1 hour ago, Sierra Fox said:

out of curiosity and with no desire to try it my self. what about a high powered floor/desk/standing fan pointing directly at the CPU as close as you can get it and no heatsink?

I tried it with an 8,000RPM 40mm fan, it was able to keep my semperon from overheating, but I never put a load on it, just left it in the BIOS.

 

They make 40mm fans that run at damn near 30,000RPM... h m m m

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