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Actually, 2 degrees F lower. I'm still in the tinkering phase, I want to wait a week and see what really happens to this bad boy. By the by, this just got posted on hack a day: http://www.hackaday.com/2007/06/19/heat-pipe-wine-cooler/ which really made my day, woo!

Will do! The beauty though, if you see the end of the video, it kind of illustrates how mobile it is. I'll try and express it here. The computer itself is screwed to the plywood, and the joints/copper are mounted to the case side panel, but the wine chiller is just industrial Velcro. All I need to do, if I wish to change a part is lift up the wine chiller at and angle, unscrew the side panel screw, slide it off and away I go! Maybe I can get companies to possibly donate parts to me, heh. I'm a wishful thinker, what can I say.

If this works out for multiple people, I want this to get known.

I hear ya, All I did was make a joint out of the copper with some elbows, insulate it, and route it through the thick door with grommets on both ends. The pipe just is in the center about 1/2 inch away from the wall of the wine chiller, it didn't go into a compressor or anything. Good luck, and I look forward to viewing your results!

I'll try and answer in an organized fashion, so many good questions. 1. I wadded up the aluminum foil because, the pennies so conveniently left a nice gap right where the metal of the CPU would fit in, thus not making good enough contact. The foil would act as a temporary sink to help quickly transfer the heat through the copper, to the wine chiller. 2. The BIOS does not support temperature viewing, but I promise, if I somehow get better computer parts from donations or generous friends, or if I get a second job (haha) I will get more heat mongering components that have a built in temperature gauge. 3. For the accurate temperature, I take it in 2 places. One, the case temperature, and secondly, an air thermometer that touches the base of the copper tubing just a hair's breath above the CPU itself, which reads out at 90 degrees F, 2 degrees cooler than the air in the room. *Sigh* No air conditioner there, heh. 4. Its sealed from the inside, I used clear silicon, so its difficult to make out. Though, maybe the footage you saw was mid-way through, where at that time I did not have it sealed. But, in the final scene it is all sealed up either with packing tape and super glue, or silicon. Hope this helps! Glad to see questions.

Yeah, it must be. That's what other people have been mentioning. Fits pretty well, given the year and all.

Ah, many thanks for that clarification.

It states "Intel" at the top. Either way, I realize that the heat dispersed by the CPU is not great (it is about 1.3ghz or so, Dell Dimension) but my "buying" potential is somewhat limited at the moment. This is just a dry run of my theory, I will purchase more sophisticated parts later. But let me put it this way, the room is 92 degrees, and the temperature of the pipe towards the base after running for a day is 90 degrees. So far so good, those CPU's should go above such a temperature if left on for quite some time. It was my friend's Dell Dimension from early 2001, he was kind enough to donate it to "science." I will be sure to let you know if/when I acquire higher-end heat raging parts. And yes, I do realize that defacing U.S. legal tender is illegal... I think we will all live. But I do appreciate the conversation this has started, I really like the feedback. Oh, by the way, that CPU in the pic was just random, at the time I thought that the motherboard was going to be AMD socket based. For more information about what the parts looked like, etc. please watch the video.

Just thought that all you overclockers out there might enjoy a new project that I have just recently finished entitled: Copper Heatsink on the Rocks. This play on words makes reference to a computer being passively cooled with a wine chiller. Pros: -Dust free (sealed completely) -Easy to remove cover -No moving parts, no fans, all passive (minus the one PSU fan, I couldn't afford a passive PSU) -Pure copper insulated heatsink that is counter-cooled by a wine chiller at 41 degrees F, allows for much OC'ing -Currently at 91 degrees F after leaving on for 1 whole day, still counting, with no flubs (heat measured from the copper closest to the CPU itself) I have not OC'd it yet, but eventually will after viewing how stable it is after 1 week. To view the video, tutorial, details, pictures, etc, go here: http://www.leetupload.com/tutorials/copper...nkon_the_rocks/ Hope all of you enjoy! Comments are quite welcome.