Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil
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Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/ ... _the_fans/
Tom's Hardware have submerged/cooled a FX55 & 6800Ultra in COOKING OIL!!!!
You owe it to yourself to check this out....
"would you like fries with that?"
Tom's Hardware have submerged/cooled a FX55 & 6800Ultra in COOKING OIL!!!!
You owe it to yourself to check this out....
"would you like fries with that?"
Last edited by kenc51 on Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
Nice. The fact that oil doesn't conduct electricity is common knowledge, but since its heat capacity is a lot lower than that of water, I always thought it wouldn't be effective at cooling the computer. This might prove to be a pretty economical and quiet cooling solution, however I'd prefer the liquid to be colorless as opposed to yellow (yellow reminds me of that other liquid).
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didnt some german or russian dude do that a while back?
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yes, he did experiments with differant types of oils. there was one you could buy from home depot or something that was more and didnt have the yellow tint like cooking oil. check out the pic i have in the CASE, COOLING thread under extreme cooling. the only thing you really have to make sure is to keep it circulating with a pump or something or else it would render it useless.bigblockmatt wrote:didnt some german or russian dude do that a while back?
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Not sure about that one. It works, but is it really worth it? The computer is hosed after you pour the oil in isn't it? It may be economical, but I'd rather lay $200 on water cooling so I don't destroy/eliminate all future use of my computer components. I guess it works for some people. Oh, well. But just imagined if you sprung a leak in the back and were out of town for a week....
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Id at least drag over an old PC to test it out before going "all in" with the oil cooling.pcrobot wrote:Yeah, same here.DeusEx wrote:i dont have 8 gallons of cooking oil or a fish tank laying near by. i would be too scared to attempt something like this unless my computer was overheating all the time.
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I dunno, I could see some real problems with this setup after long periods of operation. I've worked in a kitchen for 5 years and cooking oil gets very hot (I've got the burns to prove it.) Now I know that maybe this oil won't get above 140 F (60 C) since that's probably how hot the processor will run but that heat builds up and stick a videocard in there too and you've got more heat. Wouldn't the ambient temperature of the oil soon begin to melt the silicon?
yup
I would definitely have the same problem.....MMMmmmmmmmNobahar wrote:I'd suggest olive oil but that's expensive, that dark olive color would look awesome. Except then we'd run into the problem of me dipping bread into my computer case.