Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
 

Just for fun, water cooled my spare dlink 615 router (now an access point...)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/07/67.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/07/68.jpg

Temperature on the heatsink dropped from 50c in Idle to 32c... result!

Pointless but fun!

;)

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Some people have away too much spare time on their hands :p

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erm... pointless, but wow!.

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Haha im sure the wife would beg to differ... managed to sneak this project in while decorating the house, hence the rather "knocked together" look. This is part of a bigger project... yet to be announced to the world! Watch this space.

;)

And thanks Deathtrap, but your right... its completely pointless but its always fun tinkering!

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I'm thinking about water cooling a water cooler. Now that would be cool! :cool:

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Haha, well I think it's cool!

You'll be posting pics of your house looking like that Barcley Card water slide advert next, water cooling everything! Nice.

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I assume you used some of that thermal compound adhesive for the water block? I also assume its on a loop in you pc too? would be cooler if the fluid was blue lol

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The fluid is blue, its clear tubing. This is part of an existing water loop on my main PC.

Its not thermal paste but thermal tape, the heatsink is holed to allow heat to dissipate from the router so tape was the only option... here another photo...

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/07/65.jpg
The routers PCB with thermal tape applied.

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its not very blue though is it lol

fair play though bet you enjoyed the project

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Its UV reactive, when its dark it looks superb. (in the case anyway where theres UV lights).

:)

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yeah I had a load of UV stuff in my case but took it all out last rebuild its all just more cables to try and manage and unfortunately my case although massive does not have good management provissioned in it

Trying to manage 6 hard drives and 4 optical is never gonna be an easy task but impossible when the case dont help

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DVD / Blu Ray factory zing?

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4 Optical drives dude?:erm: What are they?;)

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2 LGs an Pioneer and a Sony ;)

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If I was gonna be a factory id have dedicated duplicators ;)

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Cool stuff indeed...:Yes:

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Cool little project that.