Well guys I am doing a project in my Computer Concepts class. Most of the peopla are doing the history of a floppy or mouse but I have to be different and I am going after the history of cooling computers. I was wondering if you gusy knew a good website that had the history of cooling and when water cooling came into play and the first water cooling.You guy6s get the drift. I am definately going to use some pictures through the gallery in my report and will ask permission for whoever I use but if you guys happen to know where I could find the history of cooling or just the history of water cooling that would be cool. Thanks guys.

How Computers began to be Watercooled, by Pimp_Joose

One fine day, a computer nerd was drinking a can of that Ãœbercaffinated water with his computer case open and surfing www.pcapex.com. After taking an unusually long swig, his shaky hands went to place the drink onto the desk, but he missed and it fell into his brand new Athlon 850 computer. The computer didn't die right away though. For 10 glorious seconds, the computer geek noticed that the temps on his spanking new Athlon dropped from a horrifying 72*C to 58*C!!!

The computer geek was SO AMAZED that when he went to buy the new ÃœberAthlon 900 that he set out on a quest for sub-60*C CPU temps using water cooling. And thus modern-day watercooling of computers was born.

Water-cooling is actually a trick that began with mainframe computers. Went out of style and then recently returned as an extreme PC cooling stragedy. Let me pull my history books and see if I can find an early water-cooling ref for you.

EDIT: Appears the original Univac delivered to the Census Bureau was both air and water cooled. But I can't pin it down ...

-MF

It was first used on Navy ships around the 50's where a large hollow metal plate, with holes for components to pass through was attached to PCB's. (Printed Circuit Boards) A metal coil was cooled by sea water, and a pump was used to circulate the water to the hollow cooling plates attached to the circuits. This process cooled hot vacuum tubes, and later transistors and semiconductors at around 40*C I believe the method was invented by IBM, but don't quote me on that It was used in trajectory computers designed to calculate where shells should hit, Calculating trajectory was the first practical use of electronic computers. (ENIAC) I could try to get more information concerning the topic, but for now I hope this helps you, and good luck

Thanx guys I appreciate it. If you know any other websites that mught have some info on the histroy of water cooling I would appreciate it.

Well I believe are friend Zenzzo should be included in the history. He is as far as I know the first person to ever direct die water cool a computer successfully/with good results.

yes. get into extreme cooling aswell. liquid nitrogen, dielectric submersion, etc.

yeah i am in the process of writing it and am now in the future part now so i have mentioned direct die cooling. Thanx guys

ddy123,
I've got a hella, stash of pics, if you need them. Feel free to use anything I have written, In the first article or in the DD1.1 work log. Cool subject Bro. You should be able to score an Ace on this one...
How's the rest of school going?

I appreciate that Zennz. I will let you know how it goes. As far as mil school its going pretty good. All my classes are going really well and I heard i might be getting promoted to staff sergeant. Anyways I really appreciate you guys for all the help you have given me. Also I came across this when doing some research. I though you might be interested in this Zennz: http://www.sysopt.com/articles/Direct_Die/index.html I thought you might check this out to make sure no one is stepping on your toes. Thanx a lot.