Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil

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http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/page11.html

This is insane...








Anyone wanna give it a try?

hellboy99

:eek: :eek:

mad m

We recommend motor oil!!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

mad m wrote:

We recommend motor oil!!!!!

thought that was too good a solvent to use, as IIRC it attacks capacitors or maybe I'm thinking of transformer oil.

Could you use a spray / dip to give the HW an extrememly thin protective coating ???

SouperComputer

yea, motor oil contains all kinds of nasty chemicals.

Hmm I wonder what custom liqud could be designed\adapted

commited

baby oil is meant to be great for this.

A load of lads in the UK did this ages ago. they left the fans in for some flow

Veggie oil also gets a bit smelly after a while!

TomCo

Fill the whole thing with non-conductive coolant as used in 'water' cooling systems.

Or 75% Antifreeze, 20% Distilled Water, 5% Anti corrosives and stick the whole thing in the freezer

gline

SouperComputer wrote:

yea, motor oil contains all kinds of nasty chemicals.

Hmm I wonder what custom liqud could be designed\adapted

there are a few non conductive collants you can use for this, its a pretty old idea doinf this

inertex (i think that is the name of it) can be used, some mad non conductive coolant that costs a fair bit

Capt'n Midnight

SouperComputer wrote:

yea, motor oil contains all kinds of nasty chemicals.

Hmm I wonder what custom liqud could be designed\adapted

CFC's used to be used for this sort of stuff because they were non toxic and non flamable and pretty much inert. They used to test TV's by dipping them in it while the TV's were on. They had to ban them because they destroyed the ozone layer or ICI's patents on them ran out depending on who you believe.

The replacements are either toxic , corrosive to plastics or very flamable or all three !!

TomCo

So, could you go down the dump and crack open the reservoir on an old fridge?

Im using the term 'crack open' very loosely there!

Capt'n Midnight

TomCo wrote:

So, could you go down the dump and crack open the reservoir on an old fridge?

Im using the term 'crack open' very loosely there!

Eh no, you would use a different CFC with a higher boiling point.
http://www.halotron-inc.com/prodinfo.htm - this stuff boils at 27c so should be great for cooling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFC

American engineer Thomas Midgley developed Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in 1928 as a replacement for ammonia (NH3), chloromethane (CH3Cl), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), toxic but in common use at the time as refrigerants. The new compound developed had to have a low boiling point, be non-toxic, and be generally non-reactive. In a demonstration for the American Chemical Association, Midgley flamboyantly demonstrated all these properties by inhaling a breath of the gas and using it to blow out a candle.

http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/dec01/features/heatout/heatout.html cooling by letting the liquid boil dielectric coolant PF 5060 boiling point 56 oC

http://www.electronics-cooling.com/Resources/EC_Articles/MAY96/may96_04.htm

Capt'n Midnight

Has anyone used the case as a heat sink ?
Like build the case from 5mm aluminum sheet and use really thick projection in the centre when you put the motherboard upside down on it.

Ok it won't have the thermal capacity of heat pipes but it would not need a fan because of the huge surface area.

actually the best of all would be intel/amd to make chips with channels for cooling liquids so you can just plumb them in.

dazberry

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Has anyone used the case as a heat sink ?
Like build the case from 5mm aluminum sheet and use really thick projection in the centre when you put the motherboard upside down on it.

Do you mean something like this?

D.

Capt'n Midnight

Dang, I had visions of unlimited wealth sadly gone now because of prior art

the three VGA heatpipes drain heat from the GPU at a rate of 75 watts/sec

joules per second per second is this some sort of thermal runaway ?

BeatFreak

Old idea, This smells better and would be far more effective in terms of the effort/output ratios.

Tom's hardware just keep on giving us reasons to not read them

BeatFreak

Heh even better.

intel celeron 550MHz

192 MB Ram

pwned

SouperComputer

Has anyone used the case as a heat sink ?

also have a gander at: www.hushtechnologies.net