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Project Monolith

BY KEVIN PARRISH. 12:00 AM - NOVEMBER 19, 2010
 

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Project Monolith

Located on the Overclockers Australia Forums, member "rainwulf" details Project Monolith, a water-cooled system inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and fictional technology called Jain imagined by English science fiction writer Neal Asher.

"It will be completely water-cooled, and I mean completely," rainwulf wrote when he first began the project. "If it produces heat, it will have a water block on it." Rainwulf wasn't kidding—the motherboard, the CPU, MOSFETs, DDR2, and the northbridge and southbridge components are all water-cooled. He even covered the PhysX card, the X-Fi card, power supply, and the hard drives.

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phoenix777 11/19/2010 6:14 AM
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lol @ the background on #13

sprunth 11/19/2010 6:16 AM
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Last picture = Awesome.

anacandor 11/19/2010 6:18 AM
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^ Agreed.

Snipergod87 11/19/2010 6:33 AM
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thecapulet 11/19/2010 6:45 AM
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Snipergod87 :
so for number 6 where he sais everything that makes heat is water cooled. What about the radiator? Woudlnt he need a seperate water cooling system to cool that.


Way to be annoyingly pedantic.

dEAne 11/19/2010 7:39 AM
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Their should be a poll for these so we know who's picture makes lots of attention.

ragingmercenary 11/19/2010 7:46 AM
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is it just me, or do some of these builds just look like a mess of tubing?

GeoMan 11/19/2010 8:05 AM
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Snipergod87 :
so for number 6 where he sais everything that makes heat is water cooled. What about the radiator? Woudlnt he need a seperate water cooling system to cool that.



Because as everybody knows radiators CREATE heat and defiantly don’t DISSIPATE it. /Sarcasm

SirGCal 11/19/2010 8:25 AM
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karma831 11/19/2010 10:08 AM
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The ones built into the desks are cool. The foam one was pretty awesome too.

gti88 11/19/2010 10:45 AM
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The System-in-Table (by Popular Mechanics) and the Foam Thing are cool.

NoseNuthin 11/19/2010 1:21 PM
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These "articles" in which the only page navigation is 'next' and 'previous' for 20 pages really annoy me !!!

kriminal 11/19/2010 1:27 PM
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meh the first pc is logysis acrylic... weak

nevertell 11/19/2010 2:32 PM
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What I found most amusing is that most of them used nvidia's cards.

But no fermis :(

MonsterCookie 11/19/2010 2:46 PM
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One thing which I will never understand at TH:
why on earth are you putting a zoom button under the pictures,
if all we get is the same tiny figure with 140x100 pixels?

I understand that for some of the mods presented here there is no high resolution picture available, or you were too lazy to look for them, but this is true for your articles as well.

rubix_1011 11/19/2010 3:08 PM
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Not impressed with most of these...the 2 table/desk PC's were pretty good plus a couple others were decent. As for the rest, it looks like they just Googled PC watercooling and grabbed the first 15 pictures; most looking like they were from 3-5 years ago.

Watercooling has come a lot further than these pictures portray...why the nostalgic look and feel with this 'article'? There are PLENTY of amazing watercooling builds out there...and you showcase THIS?

scoopster 11/19/2010 3:51 PM
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If you think these are crazy, you should see the epic modding competition that two of my gaming buddies have been waging for a while now. You can read up on it and see pics of the action here: http://theafterlifels.com/forums/v [...] f=5&t=3756

ram1009 11/19/2010 4:11 PM
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Anonymous 11/19/2010 4:25 PM
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For all the work that goes into cooling these systems you would think the designer knows that an acrylic case is an insulator and serves to trap heat inside the case. A metal case is always best due to its ability to pull heat away from the inside.

kingnoobe 11/19/2010 4:40 PM
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Well lets see jbaron.. You're right metal is a better conductor. But I'm sure these guys also know enough about air flow for the difference to be negligible. Not to mention it's water cooled!


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