DIY kits for sale at www.pugetsystems.com and full details at www.pugetsystems.com We cool a computer by submerging it in mineral oil. In an aquarium, it looks great!
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Can you put fish in there
@bsangoz its oil
“puts fingers in at 140 and gets electrecuted?” then again its oil not water im guess its non conductive or somethin lol
@bsangoz You must have Down syndrome
I was wondering: at first oil is cold and has a lot of thermal inertia, so it can cool well your pc for a long time; but, when running for days, you have still to evaluate the dissipation of the pc to the oil and the oil to the ambient. I have some doubts on it since radiation is low and convection is almost zero (only on the surface). Maybe the bubbles help..
what are the temps?
So you mean I should put 6 gallons of oil on my desk. That sounds about as practical as liquid cooling the lamp next to my bed. I think I’ll stick with a normal computer. When it overheats and dies, I’ll buy another one and not ever worry about spilling oil on my carpets.
And you’ll never have to look for that tube of AstroGlide again! Simply open up a porn video, then dip your hand into your computer case.
@plantfan330 The oil takes the heat off the components and then the oil itself is air cooled. Their website details that it topped out at 88 C after TWELVE HOURS. It took a good eight to get anywhere near 80, and even then the heat is not concentrated around the components like an air cooled system.
This is crazy, what the fuck is wrong with sound, instead you play music that makes my brain melt, and then i turn off the sound, idiot.
allways found this cool ^_^
@plantfan330 i think there is enough volume in the oil solution of a full tank that it wont heat up a ton unless you’re computer runs at uber high temps. Also air heats up much, much faster than oil due to density and composition of the chemicals =p n you can also use a watercooling style rig to bring out some of the oil, cool it, and put it back into the tank. maybe even a fish tank water filter could suck out the oil, but instead of a filter, you have a peltier device to cool the oil
@plantfan330 mineral oil cools down with convection so no that wouldn’t happen.. also mineral oil has a lower viscosity in hotter temperatures and moves better and that convection transfers energy even more better
It all looks good and everithing, but with aircooling, the heat can leave the machine, but with this oil solution, where can the oil cool down??
It cools off the hardweare pretty fast, and collects heat, but whats next? leave it to heat up 90°C(usual CPU temp.)? The user will get a free burning oil shower, when the plexi wall of the “aquarium” melts down lol…
its HEAVY, would be a pain to swap parts or get to anything. you cant put a hardrive inside.. it has a breather hole and will get destroyed if mineral oil got in it.(all drives have breather holes) all your fans will eventually die. the coils in the motor will overheat. and a bad fan can short out a powersupply. the airbubble idea is good, it cools the oil down
Nice
@bsangoz
i dont think fish can live in mineral water
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and temps???????
1. Fish wouldent last too long in oil
2. The HDD is a sealed unit, no oil would get in.
3. Lol bubbles
@randomdude3824 *the solution is meant for improved cooling only*
@ArcaneKarma yeah it will corrode the copper block slowly even if it’s the classical water “pipe” cooling, but since it’s closed loop, it never has contact w/ any actual electronic components and is safe. The coolant/water solution is meant to cool more efficiently than water alone. Just like your car radiator
@randomdude3824
But isn’t it the same thing thing when water contacts a copper water block? I thought that’s why we use a mixer of distilled water and coolant, rather than tap water.
@ArcaneKarma lol actually it’s the minerals in water that make it conductive so
lol on second thought tho, water might not be good cuz it could corrode the PC metal and gain it’s conductivity from that
@randomdude3824
suuuuuuure… it it’s like water is conductive…..