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I just came up with a good idea, a water cooled case. Basically, it has water between two see-through glass surfaces, and it is cooled and cools the air particles on the inside of the case. There are other glass panels on the inside for mounting the motherboard to, hard drives, etc.
 
How you going to get the heat to the water? Glass is a terrible conductor. 😉
 
Aside from cooling, that would actually look really cool as is. You know how light difracts through water? Everything in the PC would look all ripply, and then perhaps you could undo the screw at the top of the case and put in yellow or blue dye, and have the case "immersed" in this colorful wavy goodness.

Yeah, the cooling would be a failure. Well, actually, perhaps the case could provide as some sort of water cooling radiator and pump by itself and will come with tubing to plug into the components. If you have another water coolable component, undo a water-blocking plug on the interior of the case, and attatch a tube to go to a component.
 
Not to mention the terrible weight associated with it per running feet/inch/mm whichever way you look at. There is a reason why radiators are designed in a similar norm and fashion with end tanks, chamber separation and fin spacing.

What you're trying to do , Turkey, wouldn't be new but it would be worth experimenting on in case you come across people who attempt to do the same thing. Linus' Whole room watercooling project could've been successful but he attacked each problem from the worst possible angle and was merely a publicity stunt to garner likes on his channel.

^ Sorry if I ruffled up any feathers who are Linus fans :sarcastic:

On the note about looking cool with refracted light, you do know that with lighting you will only see dispersed colors unless you go for very high illumination. You'll see this if you own an aquarium.
 


Very good price. Beats spending $2-$300 for competitive name brand stuff.

Glad to hear you've had a positive experience with Chicago Electric. You're part of the majority and very affordable! Harbor is a good place. They have some nice jacks too. I've been wondering about their Badlands winches... seem to have mixed reviews.

$300 for a 12k winch is tempting as to compared to say, $500 SmittyBilt #97512. 3 stage planetary, roller fairlead and 265:1. All it would need is synthetic line, cover and dependability. The SmittyBilt is obviously better in every way... the $200 difference is subjective but a winch is a winch. The most important thing is that it works when taking a beating on the trail. The rest of the stuff is fluff. A tree-saver and snatch block are nice though...

Cool video - https://youtu.be/t2R0f4fOMEY

 
This is what I just witnessed on a GTX 960 vs R9 380 thread:

"Thanks mate i will go for a gtx 960 after all i trust it more and the r9 380 just came out like 4 months ago nobody knows its durability and etc.."

What a bunch of bull 😛 durability. Ah, whatever.
 


I cannot personally vouge for one or the other, as I hear it depends on the game. I'd have to do some deeper research. (1 minute later) Judging by Tomshgardware's rveiew on the R9 380 here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-390x-r9-380-r7-370,4178-6.html it seems the 380 beats the 960 in every game at every resolution. So yes, the 380 is the stronger card, sometimes getting 10 more FPS than the 960.
 
isn't the 380 still just a reconfigured 7950? even if its tonga or antigua i think its core still using the same gcn architecture that has been fiddled with on the die to make it more power efficient. otherwise clock for clock its performance "would" be identical to a 7950/r9-280... but its using a much slower(on paper) and smaller memory configuration. though its memory may have tricks up its sleeve to compensate for its smaller bus size.

its funny though since i think some of the benchmark sites must be using old data for older cards that hasn't been updated with newer drivers. im seeing numbers where the 960 is very close to 770(680) numbers and i see 380 beating the 770 in some too. this is counter to common knowledge though since we all know the 7950 and 670 traded blows while the 7970 and 680 traded blows... especially since the 380 "i think" is still using 7950 horsepower. the 760 is a further cut down 670 and the 960 and 760 are relatively close in performance.

it just seems strange. i would like to see some 7950 and 380 clock for clock comparisons as a reference to see.
 


Nice score, Brotherhood was definitely one of the best of that series. I'm hoping I can get Unity for that kind of a deal at some point. How long is the sale going on?
 


Should be on for another 10 hours or so. Unfortunately, the game has major stuttering whenever I move the mouse. I get stable 60FPS whenever I keep the mouse exactly still, but when I move the mouse there is a ton of stuttering and it is about 15FPS. I am trying to find a solution online.
 
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