As 2000 was drawing to a close, ProCooling was just getting it's A game on. Almost exactly 1 year after starting up,  ProCooling

Una's first full machine project named "Little Stealth" was a completely contained cooling system using a full size mag drive pump in a small form factor. It really was quite interesting, and well designed for its time.

A few firsts that DH3 gave to the watercooling world was:

• Using UV Dyes in the coolant and illuminating them with black lights. This was originally planned purely for leak detection, but the bright shades of green and blue in the coolant lines quickly caught on with all the case modders around the web.  Now today its a requirement for any flashy cooling system. The idea was thought up by myself and Chip at OCWC, in a brief ICQ conversation in Sept of 2000 but was kept under wraps till DH3 was unveiled.
   
• Using Quick Disconnects in a cooling loop. This allowed you to remove the CPU block or any block in the system and not need to refill or rebleed the system. This was also an idea Chip and myself came up with.
   
• Using R/C Aircraft fuel tanks as resevoirs in the top of the case to give the most functional air trap and cooliant resevoir setup possible.  This setup has been coppies hundreds of times over in different shapes and sizes. After I designed the cooling system in DH3 I quickly realized how many benifits there were to having the tanks at the very top of the system. With the 2 main benifits being instantly being able to prime the pumps and a perfect air trapping setup.
   
• Using a DD5 to monitor many different points in the cooling system and control turning certain fans on and off as the temp requires.  ( this is mainly because no one else had a DD5 in the US at that point).

DH3

Shortly after DH3 ( about 1 month) using spare parts from the DH3 project and a AOpen HX45A case I built Pro/Mini. It was all the benifits that DH3 gave to watercooling but in a small case.  It demonstrated how compact, clean, and efficient a cooling system can be. Using special air ducting, a ballanced air flow, and a specially designed resevoir setup, Pro/Mini ran a Pelt cooled 850Mhz P3 at over 1Ghz at under -12C all while being a small portable case requiring almost no maintence.

The machine was built in 1 week using just time after work to design, and construct it. The article wasnt as much ground breaking as it was just a nice example of how to implement a high end cooling system into a small case. Pro/Mini Rev2 which was done a month later changed the radiator setup to improve over all temps in the system.

Currently the Pro/Mini cooling system has been running 24/7 for over a year and has only required a top off of coolant every few months.

OnDa does his normal good explanation in his How2 about linking multiple PSU's together. This article has been the basis for many people building Pelt power supplies from multiple PC powersupplies. This is still an article that I hear people talking about 1.5 years later.

 After over a year of rapid growth, and a cooling market thats maturing very quickly, ProCooling needed to update its features, and site layout to handle the site's rapidly growing size. V3.0 was the biggest re-write on the entire site at that time and also incorporated the ProCooling Java IRC client into the site as well as an updated forum look. The ProCooling "flake" logo and text design was from a logo contest that ProCooling held a few months before. The summer of 2001 was a very

After freting with how I can get real accurate temps from a CPU while it's in the socket, I came up with using a thermocouple and running it inbetween the rows of pins on the bottom of the CPU.   This was the first time it was shown on the web how to do it exactly.   It involved carving part of the socket away and it was a bit too extreme for some folks :) I still have the mobo that I used for that article and its still running perfectly. Since then I have doen that to about 6 boards for different people.