Would you do this?

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man, thats just wild

It doesn't look safe to me.
You wouldn't want to fry your silicone chips would you?


Curly

I was looking at this a while back, perfectly safe because the oil is non conductive. You can buy some expensive liquid for fully submirsed pc builds but it is about £200 per litre lol.

The trouble with oil cooled pc's is that the oil gets hotter and hotter and eventualy it takes it's tole on your moving parts such as fans because of the thickness of the oil.

Originally Posted by sargie

I was looking at this a while back, perfectly safe because the oil is non conductive. You can buy some expensive liquid for fully submirsed pc builds but it is about £200 per litre lol.

The trouble with oil cooled pc's is that the oil gets hotter and hotter and eventualy it takes it's tole on your moving parts such as fans because of the thickness of the oil.

but... why would you have fans once it is in oil? the heatsink will just transfer the heat to the oil.

altho, people who leave their computers on for days could make the oil hot enough to fry lunch

Originally Posted by nawabasif

but... why would you have fans once it is in oil? the heatsink will just transfer the heat to the oil.

altho, people who leave their computers on for days could make the oil hot enough to fry lunch

because most psu's nowadays come with fans on them if not all

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Originally Posted by nawabasif

but... why would you have fans once it is in oil? the heatsink will just transfer the heat to the oil.

altho, people who leave their computers on for days could make the oil hot enough to fry lunch

you need the fan to move the hot oil (much quicker than convection). you still need a big heat sync, or the oil will get too hot. there was one running in our local market (Leicester), filled with veg oil, for a very long time. nothing new, this, as oil(or something close) has cooled supercomputers for decades.

Originally Posted by nawabasif

but... why would you have fans once it is in oil? the heatsink will just transfer the heat to the oil.

altho, people who leave their computers on for days could make the oil hot enough to fry lunch

I doubt that very much
Just think
While your comp is on with fan cooling
It never gets above 100C
While cooking in a deep fat fryer the oil is like 200C
The real prob with this is you would need to check the oil level
Then when it gets low top it up just like a car
The reason they use veg oil is cos its cheap
I would say watch out for this
Could this be the next style of comp
Ok till you need a upgrade what a messy job that would be

got to be the most pointless idea

all that hassle when fans do the job perfectly

can't see that being sold to people anytime soon

too much grief if tank leaks and when upgrading think of all the oil everywhere

silly idea....in fact a way of making more work for yourself idea

Originally Posted by chelsea

got to be the most pointless idea all that hassle when fans do the job perfectly

yeah but the idea is that a fully submersed computer cools better and is almost totaly silent.