Daily DIY

This instructable documents my quest for extremely superior air cooling for my desktop using found materials and the testicle-shrinking chill of a brisk Wisconsin winter. I achieved this by cutting two holes, one in the side of my case, and another in a board which I inserted into my window frame and attached with some wicked plastic ducting. Please read on for details!


By: teeps

We covered this some time ago, but the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX is now official. ATI’s new flagship PCI Express graphics card will cost you $449, which is pretty cheap. It’s based around a 648MHz graphics chip and 1GB of fast GDDR4 memory running at 2GHz. There’s also a new heatsink design to cool the graphics chip without sounding like a runaway lawnmower. HardOCP have already tested the card and found it to be pretty speedy and pretty quiet, delivering good prefomance for the price. The new card will be available on September 14th.– Richard Baguley

UPDATE: Actually , it only has 512MB of GDDR4 RAM: I was getting my Ghz and GBs mixed up…

ATI Radeon X1950 [ATI]

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX / CrossFire Evaluation [HardOCP]

To create an instant beverage cooler from an old water cooler.

Replace the compressor with a bigger one, replace the condensor with a bigger one, chop a couple feet out of the middle, charge it with propane & fill the tank with brine!


By: o4tuna

Everybody’s trying to stay cool this summer, and Honda is resorting to old-school low-tech for its Ohio plant, cooling it with good old-fashioned ice. During off-hours, at night when power is cheaper, they’re using two 450-ton chillers to make huge blocks of ice, and then they’re using them to cool off the air all day as the ice melts.

Sounds like a great way to store coolness at the lowest cost, and the company says the system will pay for itself in savings over three years. The greenies like it too, because it doesn’t use any environmentally unfriendly gases such as freon. Everybody wins. – Charlie White

Honda Cools Off with Ice [treehugger]

My main computer is an hp zv5000 - it uses two heat pipes with heat sinks and two fans to cool the processor. Through use, those heat sinks (copper?) and pipes collect quite a bit of dust reducing the machine’s cooling capacity.



If you don’t have this specific machine, not to worry. Just use some common sense as the basic idea is the same.


By: trebuchet03

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via Makezine comes a great Vapor Phase Change Cooling project:
“This project has been many months in the making and I finally had enough time to put this thing together. For those people that aren’t HVAC engineers, Phase Cooling involves using a refrigeration compressor to compress a gas till it changes phases to […]