Computer Cooling Experiment With Irn Bru Lid

Irn Bru Cooling For A Computer

Cooling a computer is vital and is an area that MUST be carefully considered when building a computer.

Over the last few months we have been very busy building loads of computers mainly for gaming but with the huge rise in social media, we have built a large number of computers specifically for video, image and sound editing.

Computers for gaming and editing have similar requirements but a common key area is that of computer cooling.

In our high end computer builds, we will always use liquid cooling simply because liquid cooling is so efficient, reliable and good. In addition, because of the effectiveness of liquid cooling, it helps reduce the fan noise.

While advancing our computer cooling skills via learning & experimentation, one of the engineers came up with the idea of seeing if we could successfully cool a CPU using an Irn Bru bottle lid.

 The successful outcome would be that the CPU was sufficiently cooled to boot.

This short video tells the story:

Thought Hairballs Were For Cats Not Computers

While working on gaming desktop we came across what can only be described as a computer hairball!!

Computer Hairball - not good

This is a large mouse so the hairball is chunky!

I've included a computer mouse in the image to give you a reference for the size of the hairball.

We removed the computer hairball from the front air in-take of the gaming desktop and no surprise that the gaming computer now runs significantly better in that it is now stable and the cooling fans are not running constantly at full revs.

So if your computer is a wee bit under the weather or just plain sick, bring it in to our computer repair shop in Perth for a free consultation.