Sunflower Oil Cooling!!!

toco123

Now before you move this to Rec Food & Drink, I am posting this in the right forum!

Stupid question I know but has anybody cooled their computer with oil-cooling? As in submersing it all in one tank of sunflower oil?

I was thinking of trying it with a cheap second pc!

Heres some more info:


http://www.hwspirit.com/reviews.php?read=16&page=1


Pictures:


http://images.google.ie/images?hl=en&q=oil+cooled+pc&gbv=2


http://www.pugetsystems.com/gfx/submersion/gallery/Submerged002.jpg
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php

DirkVoodoo

A quick search and you will see this topic has been mentioned many times.

The Puget one is mentioned under tweaking and modding.

The limitations are mainly practicality. Oil is obviously a better working fluid than air for transporting heat, but its a bit messier to work with.

PogMoThoin

I can just imagine the smell

toco123

Its supposed to be odourless?!

DirkVoodoo

Depends on the oil.

AlmightyCushion

The best thing is, it doubles up as a deep fat fryer.

TerrorFirmer

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The best thing is, it doubles up as a deep fat fryer.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1104341

Ruu_Old

Good grief, seen it all now!

toco123

They released a watercooling kit that doubles up as a fish tank... Had to be refreshed everyday with distilled water!!

Anti

This has been around for the best part of 10 years now. And im thinking about taking up this for the laugh, i just have to wait for 2 more of the girlfriends fishes to die

Would like to stick the media centre pc into it and have it somewhere near the tv. Would get a few strange looks from friends and reletives calling over.

requiem1

I've got an old motherboard, cpu, ram and a low profile graphics card, maybe if someone could provide the tank and some of the other componants we could give it a go:)

toco123

I have one and a bubble thingy... but im waiting for someone with a q5500 and 3 way ultra!!!

toco123

Just read somewhere:


Remember, Oil is extremely flammable. Should I be worried?

mathias

Only if you start cooking chips in like the guy above .... its flammable alright but the flashpoint is quite high , in " normal " operation , if you can actually call anthing about this normal , you shouldnt get to those temps.

Id be inclined to go the machine oil route and not the cooking oil route though , first off it will take away the temptation to do snacks in it

And second it wont smell so much , and cooking oil will pong a bit after a while.

bogwalrus

i gave away my fishies the last day if someone wants the tank for computer experimentation. comes with fully submersed great pyramid and star wars trooper. but i think i will keep the trooper:)

Anti

Id be more then happy to take that off you if your in dublin

Also, you should use mineral oil not cooking oil