Submerge your pc

[Intelman07]

Hey people this is a cool project for cooling your whole pc. It is a bit pricy but it works. You can submerge your whole pc in a liqiud no joke this liquid is 220 dollars a gallon but it cools your whole pc anyways here is the link for more details linky.

 

[Rainsford]

I'm not sure about your whole PC, wouldn't that mess up your hard drives and CD drives? They aren't water tight, are they?

 

[Intelman07]

Your cd rom you wouldn't want in there cause that opens and shuts but your hard drive you could they are air tight and mostlikely "water" tight this is water though lol. But i saw them do it on tv thescreensavers it was cool looks like water but isn't they overclocked 500Mhz!!! @ -28 degress or so

 

[gururu]

can't have moving parts in there. storage drives cannot be used. plus, you have to have a cooling and circulation system to keep the material from retaining heat. i once saw a tv submerged in such a liquid. it was fantastic.

cooling, circulation, and $225/gallon is CRAZY! would be cool to look at though@

 

[Boonesmi]

yeah i remember seeing this on the screensavers several months ago

but..... its not water
its a totally innert liquid

 

[Richardito]

Totally inpractical for any prolonged use. Better stick with another liquid (like silicone fluid ).

 

[Intelman07]

It was pretty wicked looks like water but it isn't just the thought of seeing electronics in a liquid is neat!

 

[SolrFlare24]

Yeah they use HydroFloroEther(HFE) with Cray Supercomputers and the like to keep them super cool. But yeah its not really all that practical for your home user except maybe the most extreme overclocker. I mean theoretically you could build yourself a plexiglass ATX style case then mount your HDs and CDrom Drives in the upper bins, then using rubber and other materials to seal it completely tigher in teh lower half of the case. Finally, have a pump that pumps the HFE through tubing into somethign like a mini-fridge freezer. Inside the mini-fridge freezer you just have the HFE flow through radiator tubing then back out and into the case where it pumps onto your processor and graphics card. On the top part of the case you would use one or two traditional silent fans to just keep the HDs cool.


The setup would work fine and if you took your time to make sure everything was sealed tightly, your HFE would last for a long long time before needing a new topping off. But, it would be extremely expensive to do simply because HFE costs so much....but oh if it were only a couple of bucks a gallon I'd be all over that stuff.

 

[Acanthus]

OCZ had a prototype case that did this exact experiment, it was going to retail for $300 and come with NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. The case was actually alluminum, was air tight, and they used mineral oil (much cheaper than flourinert) that was supercooled by 2 TECs and pumped around inside the case, the TECs were located on the top of the case where a watercooling system kept them at safe temperatures. I remember seeing a review on it where they got very good OCs on their mobo, video card, and CPU. I also remember them saying that it weighed over 200lbs filled.