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    Quote Originally Posted by senrath View Post
    Don't forget to record some video of this, then upload it to youtube.
    That'd be pretty awesome. But it wouldn't fit. :< I could fit certain parts maybe.

    Science shall be accomplished. x] Haha

    No but really. I decided to go with archlinux.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    That'd be pretty awesome. But it wouldn't fit. :< I could fit certain parts maybe.

    Science shall be accomplished. x] Haha

    No but really. I decided to go with archlinux.
    Go to some crappy garage sale and buy some crappy old microwave that doesn't have a safety for like $5, rip off the door, smash the computer and shove as much as possible in as well as some firecrackers. Lean the rest across the front.

    Make sure you can set a timer on it to turn it on

    Oh yea, you might need a field. Or like a baseball diamond.

    Wouldn't want to try this in my house..
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    I know! I'll build a house and do it in there! RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    i know! I'll build a house and do it in there! Rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
    oo AND SPRINKLE GUN POWDER UNDER THE CARPET AND STUFF FIRECRACKERS IN THE DRY WALL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bionicle1800 View Post
    oo and sprinkle gun powder under the carpet and stuff firecrackers in the dry wall!
    YEAH! AND LIGHT lT ALL ON FIRE BEFORE TURNING ON THE MICROWAVE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    yeah! And light it all on fire before turning on the microwave!
    yeshhh! tell me where it says you needed to survive :3
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    Quote Originally Posted by bionicle1800 View Post
    yeshhh! tell me where it says you needed to survive :3
    Too bad I CAN'T! BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SAY IT ANYWHURRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!TWEIOHTYIwhngoi;

    FOAR SIGH IN SC!

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    Too bad I CAN'T! BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SAY IT ANYWHURRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!TWEIOHTYIwhngoi;

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    Or ya know, we could just nuke the computer.
    Quick n' easy.
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    Immerse it in vegetable oil and overclock it like a bat out of hell!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartzkid View Post
    Immerse it in vegetable oil and overclock it like a bat out of hell!!
    Isn't it mineral oil..? >_>

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    Isn't it mineral oil..? >_>
    Vegetable oil is a dielectric.

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    It's just that mineral oil is usually what's used. I think.

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    and...mineral oil won't ROT like veggie oil will.
    I guess since it's oil it's technically called going rancid?
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    Veggie oil doesn't go rancid easily... does it? Theoretically, I guess mineral oil is better.

    In that case, I would say test with veggie oil for general availability and price, then disassemble and wash everything and refill with proper mineral oil.
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    Light, heat, and air are what cause vegetable oil to go rancid. You can remove two of those factors when using it in a case (light and air), but you can't remove heat. I don't think it would go rancid quickly, and even if it did, I'm not sure it would impact performance much.

    That said, mineral oil isn't exactly expensive, and it definitely doesn't go rancid, so unless you have a good reason to use vegetable oil, you should use mineral oil.

    Also, I'm pretty sure mineral oil is a better dielectric.

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    Very true

    Though, there is a certain novelty in telling someone to pour cooking ingredients over their PC
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    I'm working on an old HP slash Gateway right now (frankenstein-ed the two together). It only has three SDRAM slots (EDO SDRAM, but usually just called SDRAM, as DDR and DDR2 SDRAM aren't called that ), but I put in a 256mb stick and two 128mb sticks for a total of a half-gig. I installed windows 7 and I'm going to use it as a media center PC. Anybody ever heard of Hercules Graphics Cards? They stopped making them when I was young, but they actually keep their drivers hosted on their website! I couldn't find NV TNT2 drivers ANYWHERE!

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    wtf, so like.

    1) seal holes in computer case.
    2) poor a shat load of vegetable oil in there.
    3) it works?
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    Quote Originally Posted by noidea View Post
    wtf, so like.

    1) seal holes in computer case.
    2) poor a shat load of vegetable oil in there.
    3) it works?
    Use mineral oil.. It's clear and won't go bad.

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    Great article about a mineral oil cooled computer.

    Also, cooking oil usually have an opened shelf life of about 1 year, if kept in good conditions. I'd say you have about that long before it starts going rancid, and stinks like crazy.
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    A good friend of mine used cooking oil in his experimental computer. The oil level kept going down every few weeks. Turns out his brother was taking some out and would use it for cooking, so keep that in mind. lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    Use?

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    I'd format with tinyxp.. that can run a script in scar if nothing at all was running on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    Haha well damn. So basically no use whatsoever? It's fine, I was originally just gonna store weed in it, but the case was way too hard to get off (I was high. I'm sure it'd be easy now), so I turned it on.

    I'm sure there's SOME use for it (other than taking power supply stuff out or something.. Something that would just run all day and night for some benefit is achievable.. Maybe..)
    You sure you cant run something like xampp? It's a web server , which you need your computer to run for it to work.

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    Well my dad just closed his store (he had to due to the franchise closing), and so now we have two working computers so I have another computer that we don't need to mess with, and I know it can auto because I've done it before. I was thinking about using it for something, and maybe using the other (crappier) one to dump stuff from the better one. I was kinda thinking just having some bots running around high populated areas and recording what everyone says for X amount of hours and then it checks to make sure there's no duplicates and sends the file over to the other computer. I could do some basic sorting by hand (and some automated.. -ed, -ing, etc.) to make a huge library of what everyone says. Eventually (when the duplicates of words recorded day after day decreases to a small number) I could make a huge and useless auto responder and see if it can play out whole conversations with people.

    This would be entirely useless but quite fun, in my opinion.

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    You could learn a bit about Linux with it. I've revived a computer with a 233mhz P2 and 64mb RAM with Arch + LXDE (really just openbox + pcmanfm + lxpanel to save some resources, but LXDE should be fine for you computer) + Midori.

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