Oil-cooling the PC

[DAve]

Jan, this one's for you:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans1/index.html

Tom's Hardware took an Athlon FX 55, took the fans out of the transparent case and filled it with oil. Aparently there's a video too, but I can't download it beause I'm at uni.

DAve

[Sid]

People have been mucking around with submerged cooling for a long time now and it's quite a nice way to run an entirely passive system. Unfortunately, the oil looks disgusting :) A few people have submerged a system in Florinert, made by 3M. It looks like water but is entirely non-conductive. I'm not sure how its heat capacity compares with water.

I'm slightly skeptical about whether it'd be more effective than a traditional water-cooling loop as the coolant is bound to heat up over time. Surely after 2-3 hours of solid gaming the coolant would be heating up more than it's losing through convection? ...Unless you use loads of coolant with a massive surface area.

With any luck I should have my watercooling in the next week or two:
http://www.aqua-computer.de/images/products/cpu/cuplex_xt_p4_500.jpg
:lol:

[YegaDoyai]

sid, that looks like a CPU water block, but frankly it is soooo fantastic looking it could just be a sculpture of some kind. Cannot wait to see it in action.