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- falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My friend thought about doing this, great idea, the CPU is actually running a full 5 degrees cooler. take that AIR
- Bloodys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is interesting to see if the oil will help with the condensation problem when using peltier elements or phase-change cooling...
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i haven't even read the full article, and, already, i think that is freakin amazing! good find.
- alpha7q, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i have a friend who works at the college of Notre Dame in south bend IN who oc'd a amd xp 2200+ mobile to 6ghz with liquid nitrogen, but it didnt last too long before he fried it llo
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just bs....I'm waiting for the nitrogen cooled processors overclocked at 7ghz
:P enuf oil cooling stories - Bloodys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well actually the sunflower oil is a good dielectric material, so there is very low risk of conducting electricity even after a few months of use. That is unless you spill your coffee inside for example ;)
- candre23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The ingenuity of geeks never ceases to amaze me.
- bigwheat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It has been done before, I actually posted a story that made it to the front page of a computer some of my students had made, but that used mineral oil. Don't know if posting this story would be considered a dupe though since it's a completely different project, even though the story is the same.... We discovered that most vegetable oil would degrade plastics over time - is that the case with sunflower oil as well? The grade of mineral oil we chose was specifically for that reason. Good job on the computer though...
- KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"'Does it sound crazy to you'
Yes it does. Immersing a computer in any potentiall electrically
conductive fluid is a bad idea, even at what we might consider
as low voltages."
Did you even read the article? - spawnkill19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0omm ya 1 prob ascetone is a lot of $
- snatchedlaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man I know I would end up cooking in it
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool
- thecolor11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What happens when the oil turns rancid?
- blhack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pussies, real men use distilled water.
- gash26, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't the do this back in the day? I could have sworn that old 1950's computers were all immersed in oil and only brought up for maintenance
- 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FTA: As we've already mentioned we are going to use Windows XP Professional SP2 on the test system,
Good...no reason to waste a perfectly good Linux system.
Did this guy ever think about what happens to that oil after it sits around for abit? It gets hard, and is nearly impossible to remove from any surface. Ew. - MarkBlu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Get it in to the dealer for an oil change?" hahaha!!
This whole thing sounds awesome but of course I'll leave it to the "real men" lol.. - zediker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0screw oils... just use ascetone... i saw an LCD monitor submerged in ascetone once while it was still on. It seriously looked like someone just dumped it into water.
- Calis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"What happens when the oil turns rancid?"
Get it in to the dealer for an oil change? - cruelpupet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow!!1 its dejavu from 1999
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm no dupe nazi and I really like this story, but am I crazy or has this been done before and perhaps more effectively with mineral oil?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0dumb, old, lame, seen it a dozen times...
- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0"Does it sound crazy to you"
Yes it does. Immersing a computer in any potentiall electrically
conductive fluid is a bad idea, even at what we might consider
as low voltages.
