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Old Aug 13, 2005, 10:44 PM   #1
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"Air cooling, water cooling, phase-change cooling... all of them are already too familiar and even boring. So why not to think of something new to experiment with, how about a computer fully (or almost fully) immersed in a vegetable oil. Does it sound crazy to you, well it is a bit strange and you may call it even a weird idea, but it really works.

What we did was take some unused hardware, lying around, built an acrylic case put the hardware in and filled it with sunflower oil... lots of oil.Then powered the machine up and it actually didn't fry (did someone say french fries?), instead it worked perfectly fine and in some terms a lot better then when it was air cooled. Since similar immersion projects are not too common we were doing a lot of learning on the fly while building the system and experimenting with it. So in this article we are going to share out findings with you, although we don't recommend you trying this at home."
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Old Aug 13, 2005, 10:52 PM   #2
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Uh, Im off to tesco, sudden urge to buy 10 litres of Sunflower oil......
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It's not a bad article....but im sure i have already seen a similar article to this posted in the forums !!

Where is The neon_cowboy to coment on this

But if i actually had the guts to try this out i may do so..
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Old Aug 13, 2005, 11:04 PM   #4
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Interesting idea, but I would think that since it's organic it would have to be replaced fairly often ... and it sounds like it would be a messy and long process. Might be a little harder to swap out a video card, too.

For some reason, I keep thinking about those old Fry Daddys they used to sell ...
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Ive pored oil on women to warm them up.........what a novel idea.....I like it, but the Homer Simpson in me wants to eat it.......cruel world....."sniff"
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Old Aug 13, 2005, 11:09 PM   #6
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It's not a bad article....but im sure i have already seen a similar article to this posted in the forums !!

Where is The neon_cowboy to coment on this

But if i actually had the guts to try this out i may do so..
Maybe you're thinking about the Metal Cooling article posted a few days ago.

The big problem with all the cooling I've seen is the heat has to get dumped somewhere ... into the room, basically. For me, that means my home office gets pretty hot ...
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Maybe you're thinking about the Metal Cooling article posted a few days ago.

The big problem with all the cooling I've seen is the heat has to get dumped somewhere ... into the room, basically. For me, that means my home office gets pretty hot ...
Nope.... an article i m sure i have viewed somewhere way back........several months ago,im not sure if it was DH.
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yes i agree mig, but i think it was about a year ago, and it was in discussion in the overclocking/modding forum

EDIT: oh god, they're thinking of trying distilled water? did they not do basic chemistry? water will strip ions out of the m/b and become conductive, distilled water even more so
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Nope.... an article i m sure i have viewed somewhere way back........several months ago,im not sure if it was DH.
Judas was talking about it a LONG time ago.. I remember that thread..
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Maybe you're thinking about the Metal Cooling article posted a few days ago.

The big problem with all the cooling I've seen is the heat has to get dumped somewhere ... into the room, basically. For me, that means my home office gets pretty hot ...
It gets dumped into your room with air or water cooling anyway unless you use an exhaust.
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