Hi! I saw these in a trubritar video the other day, and I wondered where did he get those red tubing "spacers"?! Does anyone know?! Thanks!
They are called "hose separators" and are sold as aftermarket car customising parts. You can get them in anodised or polished aluminium, holding two or even three tubes. They come in versions hose diameter sizes. Below is a billet aluminium one holding the tubes to the GPU together:
Way back in the day. That was when the best waterblock available was D-Tek Custom's Spir@l (mine were two of a very limited run made by a CNC artist called Paul Vodrazka), and before 12V water cooling pumps (it was mains-powered aquarium pumps then, or in my case a car turbo cooling booster pump), before flow meters (mine was made for a drinks dispenser) and all this custom gear you can now buy off the shelf. There were no special coolant fluids. You had distilled water with an anti-corrosion additive, or if you could find it, Fluorinert, a non-conductive inert liquid that cooled supercomputers and cost £75,-- a pint. Of course, I opted for the Fluorinert. I was also the first to run Samurize on the 5" TFT screen in the bezel. It was also before dual-core CPUs; that's a pair of AMD Opteron CPUs tucked in there.
Hehe seems the thread did inspire some "good-ole-times" memories... I didn't know watercooling was that old as Nexxo described! Is there a wiki on watercooling pioneering ;P?
It's been around since about 1995! It started with aquarium pumps and tubing, and heater cores (the heat exchange radiators for car cabin heating). Water blocks were often home-made affairs. We're talking proper old skool.
Yes, for a thread on tubing spacers, this thread has become a very entertaining read It inspired me to find the wiki...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cooling#Computer_usage And what do we have here: Right on, Nexxo! You were a pioneer with the Fluorinert ;-) EDIT: I'd love to read some biographies of some of the veterans here and their water cooling exploits...that would be super great.
