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Cooking Oil Cooled PC

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Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil

"And not only did we find that our AMD Athlon FX-55 and GeForce 6800 Ultra equipped system didn't short out when we filled the sealed shut PC case with cooking oil - but the non-conductive properties of the liquid coupled created a totally cool and quiet high-end PC, devoid of the noise pollution of fans."
 
Not the first time it's been done, but fun none-the-less.
Funny that companies like apple don't do that with some of their computers since they don't want you opening them anyway.
 
Anyone remember dr. ffreeze or whatever his name was from back in the day? He was one of the first to submerge a computer in mineral oil. I always wanted to do that(I'm pretty sure I still have a few bottles of mineral oil around here somehere), but it never happened. I definitely wouldn't use cooking oil, though. It'll go rancid after a while and require changing.
 
Wasn't this posted like a month ago?

Anyway 3m makes a liquid designed for this that works better. I've seen these done a few times before and this one is ok but could have been better.
 
To be honest I'm not a fan of the "dirty pisswater" look. Isn't there some way they could have colored it?
 
swatbat said:
Wasn't this posted like a month ago?

Anyway 3m makes a liquid designed for this that works better. I've seen these done a few times before and this one is ok but could have been better.
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Fluorinert? That shit is damn expensive!
 
Been posted already I think.

And from what I have read the results are less than stellar. Certainly not enough to warrant
the effort. And besides, the cooking oil will spoil after a time. That is why some use mineral oil instead.
 
jpmkm said:
Fluorinert? That shit is damn expensive!
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Too lazy to look it up but yea that may be it. It also needs to be used in a closed system if you don't want it to evaporate.
 
I read that when TomsHardware made the article and all I could say was "How careless of an article to not go into the cons and problems of doing such a system in depth, I cant wait for people to do this and have issues and come crying back to TomsHardware..." To me the article was a little misleading in the ease as to which it is done and the overall practicallity of doing it day to day. Not to mention the 64 POUNDS of weight added to the system that probably now weighs in excess of 90 pounds! I mean come on, give me a break...
 
how well does cooking oil conduct heat, would it do poorly in a closed loop system?
 
Cooking oil conducts heat pretty well or really for that matter stores it well, but it's primarily used because it doesnt evaporate at higher heat like water. Closed loop system? In what way other than this setup. Eventually without heat dissipation, the closed system will overheat, but it will take time depending on equipment used and chassis setup. Other than interesting factor, just stick to air/water/or phase. Oil is nowhere near practical and shouldnt be a main box everyday use kind of thing, unless impractical computer usage is your bag...
 
the next evolution in this will be a pc that makes french fries and fried chicken, mm mmm good
 
Ok...
Not only does that look damn UGLY.
It wouldn't cool very well!
and it would start to SMELL in no time at all!

THG is so damn ghetto it's sad.
 
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