vegetable-oil cooled computer

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: Nacelle
My question is, How does he cool the oil, once it heats up after hours of fragging.

My guess is that with that much volume of oil, combined with the large surface area of the 'oil tank' that is not much of an issue. Of course circulating the oil enough to draw heat from the vital components seems another challenge altogther.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: n7
An old friend of mine is using vegetable oil in his water cooling setup, or should i say, oil-cooling setup.

Weird, but whatever works i guess...

why? doesn't water have better heat conduction?

 

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: n7
An old friend of mine is using vegetable oil in his water cooling setup, or should i say, oil-cooling setup.

Weird, but whatever works i guess...

why? doesn't water have better heat conduction?

Yep, which makes oil pretty useless, unless it is being used to totally submerge all heat-producing components. For a traditional water-cooling setup, oil is a poor choice for heat-conductivity.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Why not use mercury?

😀

 

[thescreensavers]

how does it not get shorted

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
how does it not get shorted

The liquid doesn't make the connectivity to short out electronics, the minerals contained in the liquid do that.

Originally posted by: deadmantyping
gotta be careful though, if the whole thing gets too hot your system will burst into flames

Lack of oxygen at the source (the computer parts) would make it very hard, if not impossible to create a flame.

 

[arcenite]

I am going to try this with an old computer 😀

 

[imported_Dimicron]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Why not use mercury?

😀

That suggestion is mad (as a hatter!) 😀

 

[Aquila76]

Couple of questions:
1. This is a Celeron 550, according to the article. Why would you ever need such a ridiculous cooling setup for that CPU? Most were passively cooled IIRC.
2. If you ran a dual-core Prescott on this setup today, how long before "DING! Fries are done"?