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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Immerse it in vegetable oil and overclock it like a bat out of hell!!
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Vegetable oil is a dielectric.
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It's just that mineral oil is usually what's used. I think.
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.
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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1) seal holes in computer case.
2) poor a shat load of vegetable oil in there.
3) it works?
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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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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.



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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