The heat given off by a 100 watt Mac mini is in no way comparable to a Mac Pro. Further the heat doesn't go away when water cooled. The while point of water coolin is to more easily pull the heat out from inside your case. Water cooling would theoretically increase your office temps more so than non-water cooling.
Agreed.
But again, my interest isn't necessarily just to "pull the heat out from inside (my) case", but to collect the heat to transport it out of my house entirely. The fact that the two overclocked Clovers never go over 60ºC and shutdown the Mac during a long encode is simply a bonus that allowed me to get 4 extra cores with a 10% increase in clock frequency. I'm paying a penalty in more electricity to run the Mac, but I'm mitigating that by not paying for that electricity twice (once to run the Mac, and once to cool it).
The point being if you have an appliance, a Mac mini, and it "costs" you 100 watts to use- it will again cost you
more than 100 watts to cool the environment your Mac mini is in. It's like having a tax on a tax, and I HATE taxes.
So if this gentleman has a method of transporting heat from an appliance,
any appliance, I'm interested. And if he figures out a way to watercool my refrigerator (yeah, that's the one that really bugs me) i'll be all over the guy like stink on... shoot, let's say he'll have my full attention.
But let's say all he gets out of this is fewer artifacts while gaming, I'd still say "Bravo to you" and I may also wonder if others would like such a product.
So pal, here are the links to my stuff. Now teach me something I can use.
http://blog.macsales.com/10724-adventures-in-creating-an-octocore-mac-pro-part-1
http://blog.macsales.com/11354-adventures-in-creating-an-octocore-mac-pro-–-part-2
Regards,
Robert
3.3Ghz MacPro1,1
2X BSEL/VID'd Intel Confidential X5350's
Koolance and EK waterblocks to GeoThermal loop cooling
12GB 667 FB-DIMMs
2.5TB (total) twin internal striped RAID arrays
.45 Longslide (laser sighting)
ATI 5770 to 2X 30in. Apple Cinema Displays
Phased plasma rifle (in the 40 watt range)
Internal Pioneer BDR-205