cutting fan noise

[Broadback]

I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad

The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.

The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.

Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.

The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.

Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness

I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.

After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!

My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

[Gary]

  you are so not serious, I hope 

[J!ll]

 

[Ted]

Suggestion ...

When you see two men coming towards you wearing white coats and smiling, run as fast as you can! 

[Rik]

Liquid nitrogen, BB, that will solve all the problems. 

[Gary]

Liquid nitrogen, BB, that will solve all the problems. 

Just place head in bucket of it and no more worries, also great for a fever 

[Rik]

 

[bobleslie]

Best wind up I've read for a long time. And it's not even April. 

[Gary]

Best wind up I've read for a long time. And it's not even April. 

Bet you someone tried it somewhere, sometime, you can doo it with cooking oil I believe

[Rik]

Or meths... 

[Gary]

Or meths... 

With tramp attached?

[Rik]

 

[Lance]

Try a different psu?

edit: I didn't read this properly!

[Broadback]

OK, I will confess I stole this from another thread on AV forums, found it so funny I had to pass it on. The whole thread is hilarious look here:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/computer-systems/56924-kramer-other-members-promoting-water-cooling-you-have-alot-answer.html

[Rik]

 

[merlin]

i think it would have worked, if you had sprayed everywhere inside with silicone oil first as this makes it water proof , also did you used tap water or deionised water , it should have been deionised, as this is the same as i use in my tropical fish tank , and this makes the fish very calm ,as they just lay quietly on the bottom , and don,t even need feeding 

[Steve]

Did you build a raft for the monitor? I think ebuyer do a 24in one with a blue sail

[Rik]

Shame it wasn't red, there's a nice song...