Swimming Pool CPU Cooling

Talk about a large reservoir!!! This is a serious enthusiast. He cools 4 machines with water from his swimming pool. Very cool (pardon the pun).

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/ [...] l_cooling/

Definetely a serious undertaking, and probably beyond most enthusiasts skill levels. Must have taken many drawings/plans to come up with the final design. I'm thinking that the computers might run really cool in winter, depending on where the guy lives. I like the way he can just disconnect one, without shutting down the whole system. Although this can be considered an overkill project, it's still interesting.

Interesting, novel, and a nice off-the-wall post you have made about this unique madness.

It is a madness though, the person who set it up is an idiot. Great time, great (relative) expense, shorter component life (or same noise, since computer water blocks are not made for every part that create heat and were designed to be cooled from airflow, so the system would need fans anyway else an even shorter lifespan before failure).

In short, there is nothing good about spending time and money without any significant gain. It isn't quieter either, plenty of systems exist that demonstrate extremely low noise, only PSU fan noise is remaining and those PSU aren't water-cooled.
Plus, the systems can't be moved, the pipes are ugly to look at, or even with systems being remotely situated such that nobody sees them, it them makes even less sense to have the detriments of it all when even a random build with higher noise fans and heatsinks wouldn't be audible with a remote system.

Sorry my post was so negative, it was an interesting post 1Tanker made but yet another example that, just because you CAN do something, doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.