Mineral Oil Submerged Computer

Has anybody seen this done with a PC or Tried it themselves ? I am interested in trying it myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok

Anyone ??

BAD BAD BAD! Unless you want to lose hundreds of dollars, I strongly advise against it.

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Originally posted by erosrising

BAD BAD BAD! Unless you want to lose hundreds of dollars, I strongly advise against it.

Why ? Please explain

why?

the oil will eat away at the motherboard and soften it i thinks

It works with cooking oil you just cant submerge the power supply quite a few sites have done it

I worked for C-3PO

I will wait for someone else to do it first and see how they get on !

I just tried t^&$*&(&&%^$$%*^(*&^$#

*buys new PC*

I want an aquarium PC!

Just a bad idea....

I've seen some other sites where they've done it, but they never said much about how long it worked. I don't think I would do it with anything but a spare computer.

Can someone please explain to me what the point of this is...

The oil is not an effective cooling method at all, it will slowly heat to an unacceptable temperature and be completely inadequate as a cooling medium.

The only real purpose of this is to have it as a show piece, it will look cool but it wont be "cool"...

If you had an older computer say p3 or older it could be something to screw around with but anything above that won't really be worth it in the "produces too much heat" or "too much money to lose" aspects...

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Originally posted by Andrewr05

The oil is not an effective cooling method at all, it will slowly heat to an unacceptable temperature and be completely inadequate as a cooling medium.

The only real purpose of this is to have it as a show piece, it will look cool but it wont be "cool"...

If you had an older computer say p3 or older it could be something to screw around with but anything above that won't really be worth it in the "produces too much heat" or "too much money to lose" aspects...

Thanks for explaining it Andrew

If you want to run it for a long time you need a fluid chiller, used in salt water aquariums. Unfortunatly, the computer only lasts about 6 months. This is when the plastics start to fail. Fun to do though. Freaks your friends out!

Thanks, now I understand, its just something else to tinker with

gonna be hell when you have to install new hardware, and oil DOES eat rubber/plastic ect.

Hmm maybe I dont want one any more, maybe i'll settle for some real water cooling setup silence would rock!