Cool it in cooking oil

[VIAN]

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

 

[RallyMaster]

not going to do it. i think i like my fans fine.

 

[Wentelteefje]

FTW... Sounds cool however...

 

[Trippytiger]

Would you like fries with that?

If they were smart cookies, they'd have used mineral oil - never have to worry about it going bad, or your motherboard smelling like french fries.

Pretty cool stuff, though. Someday when I have the time/money/space I plan on giving passive immersion cooling a go, just for fun.

 

[Sir Jman]

The special order transformer fluid looks like it would be cooler... also, putting in a submersible pump with jets around the cpu and vga would be cool...

 

[Pens1566]

Good luck upgrading anything in it. Or RMA'ing parts for that matter.

 

[BW86]

My friend actually did this with vegetable oil and his comp has been running for little over a year with no problems

This is with an old crappy comp. mind you.

 

[Zepper]

Vegetable oil goes rancid - I hope he preservatized his cooking oil with THBQ or BHT...

.bh.

 

[deathwalker]

The most absurd article I have read in quiet awhile. I'll cook my chicken in it..never cool my pc in it...bahh..humbug.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

No thanks. Just for the sheer fact of swapping out hardware would be so messy...

 

[suszterpatt]

This is one of those somewhat cool but absolutely impractical things. Right up there with the casefancasefancasefancase

 

[acemcmac]

That is awesome. Applied physics FTW.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

theres a case mod somewhere.....a computer in a fish tank, but its filled with a non-conductive oil, that is pretty much as clear as water

 

[Skott]

In the article they did reccomend motor oil instead of cooking oil. Suszterpatt summed it up best. Cool but impractical.

 

[HardWarrior]

Uh, no.

 

[lifeguard1999]

How do they cool the cooking oil? With an H2O cooling setup, you have a radiator to cool the water. Eventually in this setup, the 8 gallons of cooking oil will become saturated with heat and will no longer provide any cooling.

 

[MiranoPoncho]

Ohh sure, It'll cool like a champ, but what about when you have to clear cmos?

 

[0roo0roo]

not a very good article. seems rushed. also hate the new thing where they split a damned article into way too many @%# pages.