Nominee for Hardware Idiot of the Year...

[DarkFury]

Got this in an e-mail today...

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTEyNjExMzE1M25saG1RZG1RZW9fMV8xX2wuanBn

http://www.hardocp.com/images/news/1126113153nlhmQdmQeo_1_1_l.jpg


If Darwin only had a section for dead hardware based on stupidity... this would surely be a front runner for winning. :heh:

[Showtime]

ha ha

[Kevster]

O.. M.. G..

That's just beyond stupid. :heh:

[MikeD]

If Darwin only had a section for dead hardware based on stupidity... this would surely be a front runner for winning. :heh:

Working in IT, you seem so pretty stupid stuff. This one is big league, though, no doubt.

I'll give the guy credit for making a clean cut though. :)

[speedracer120]

Omfg!

[Maarchk]

yeah i wonder how he made the clean cut... or if he felt at any point, that he might want the rest of it to function... i wonder what his car looks like if he can't find a parking spot.

[bachviet]

I can't believe what I'm seeing. :eek:

[mcs328]

OMG!! What a waste of money. I'm not familiar with that video card but I'm guessing it's an AGP because I have a Dell 2350 and it only has PCI slots. Of course I bought a PCI video card.

I had a co-worker break off a piece off a AGP video card too but it was that little tab that gets secured to the mobo and anchored in. Her video card works but this guy shoot shoot his friend.

[TruckStuff]

My .02: This is right up there with the guy that allegedly filled his case w/ mineral oil to do liquid cooling. In other words: F A K E :)

[LegendKiller]

My .02: This is right up there with the guy that allegedly filled his case w/ mineral oil to do liquid cooling. In other words: F A K E :)


Mineral oil cooling was true.


This, however, looks fake.

[DaFunkyUnit]

My .02: This is right up there with the guy that allegedly filled his case w/ mineral oil to do liquid cooling. In other words: F A K E :)

no you're thinking about the guy who bought a really expensive Apple (a dual G4 or something like that) and gutted the computer and put in a AMD Athlon board in the case.

that was a hilarious article!!!

but it was fake.

[TruckStuff]

Mineral oil cooling was true.No, I remember reading that the guy came back a month later and told everyone it was a joke. I'll see if I can find a link.....

[zippyjuan]

The picture isn't sharp enough to tell if something was physically cut off or just cloned out in Photoshop. That would explain the nice clean line with no saw marks anywhere. I vote fake.

[Daversinger]

when i was about 10 yrs old i told my friend nate that he had to punch holes in the inner clear part of the CD Rom before he was able to copy it. lol but i was just 10 lol!

OMG wow I would Slap this fool if i ever saw him. no one should be able to buy that card if they are that stupid. ya know just like: not just any old guy with 1 mil dollars can buy a mclaren...

[shocky123]

Fake or not... I thought it was funny as F***!


~Kyle

[TruckStuff]

Mineral oil cooling was true.No, I remember reading that the guy came back a month later and told everyone it was a joke. I'll see if I can find a link.....Found it: Original Story: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=56924
Admission: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57008

;)

[ArkiStan]

when i was about 10 yrs old i told my friend nate that he had to punch holes in the inner clear part of the CD Rom before he was able to copy it. lol but i was just 10 lol!

Sorta reminds me when I was 5, I told my friend to go tell his mom that she has "nice tits." The next day he told me he got pretty smacked up.

[Kevster]

Found it: Original Story: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=56924
Admission: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57008

;)

That guy used water, not mineral oil. The mineral oil-cooled PC was in Germany, not Ireland.

The mineral oil testbed system submerged only the motherboard in mineral oil, nothing else.

EDIT:

Here is the oil computer: http://www.markusleonhardt.de/en/oelrechner.html

He submerged the power supply in oil as well. Everything else is above, such as the hard drive and the CD Drive.

[chrisa86wm]

omg that is bad.

[TruckStuff]

Here is the oil computer: http://www.markusleonhardt.de/en/oelrechner.html

He submerged the power supply in oil as well. Everything else is above, such as the hard drive and the CD Drive.Vegetble oil??? :eek2:

:puke:

[cheapchinese]

i don't get it
oil don't conduct electricity???
i've been out of physics class for a long time

[modena]

omg, that is too funny....rofl

[Grimm]

i don't get it
oil don't conduct electricity???
i've been out of physics class for a long time
Mineral oil is not electricaly conductive, but it is slightly corrosive. It has much better thermal transfer than air, due to the density, but is not an optimal solution.

[cheapchinese]

Mineral oil is not electricaly conductive, but it is slightly corrosive. It has much better thermal transfer than air, due to the density, but is not an optimal solution.


thanks for the info

would the mineral oil catch on fire??

[Kevster]

thanks for the info

would the mineral oil catch on fire??

If it got hot enough, yes.

Here's the MSDS sheet on mineral oil:

http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m7700.htm

You'll notice the flashpoint temp is ~275 Degrees F.

Here's the MSDS for Vegetable Oil:

http://www.cataniausa.com/msds.html

The flash point for this company's vegetable oil is ~550 Degrees F.

One thing to remember in any liquid cooling system - the more liquid you use as heat transport the greater heat capacity you have for your cooling system. That can give you greater thermal stability between idle and peak heat loads.

[Grimm]

thanks for the info

would the mineral oil catch on fire??
Possible, but highly unlikely. In normal operation it would not catch fire.