Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
06-07-2010, 10:00
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Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
Just for fun, water cooled my spare dlink 615 router (now an access point...)
Temperature on the heatsink dropped from 50c in Idle to 32c... result!
Pointless but fun!
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06-07-2010, 11:03
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
Some people have away too much spare time on their hands :p
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06-07-2010, 11:44
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
erm... pointless, but wow!.
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06-07-2010, 12:01
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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Some people have away too much spare time on their hands :p
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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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06-07-2010, 12:06
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
I'm thinking about water cooling a water cooler. Now that would be cool! 
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06-07-2010, 12:12
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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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06-07-2010, 12:32
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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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06-07-2010, 13:24
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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...
The routers PCB with thermal tape applied.
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06-07-2010, 13:27
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
its not very blue though is it lol
fair play though bet you enjoyed the project
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06-07-2010, 13:28
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
Its UV reactive, when its dark it looks superb. (in the case anyway where theres UV lights).
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06-07-2010, 13:30
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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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08-07-2010, 16:32
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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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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08-07-2010, 21:19
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
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Originally Posted by zing
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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4 Optical drives dude?  What are they?
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08-07-2010, 21:23
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
2 LGs an Pioneer and a Sony
---------- Post added at 21:23 ---------- Previous post was at 21:20 ----------
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DVD / Blu Ray factory zing?
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If I was gonna be a factory id have dedicated duplicators
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12-07-2010, 21:34
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Re: Water Cooled Virgin Dlink 615 Router
Cool stuff indeed... 
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