Aquarium :)

nikzt · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:17

okay guys xD
First of all I appologize for the spelling etc mistakes. (english isnt my first language)
I'm sure many of you heard of it before or some of u might even tried it so I'd like to get some answers here

5 years ago on one of the Russian forums I found a post of pc in water tank (Aquarium).
I contacted that guy by Email, which assured me he and his friends decided 2 try that out and since he was afraid of risking his own pc, they used old penSium 1

aquarium half full of OIL (vegetable, sunflower, any) and some glycerin to make the oil transparent!
take off any spinning parts like power supply, optical drives, hard drive etc and all the fans (cpu and vga). also put some lights inside

for look!
and YES it did work. it was beautiful

i also read comments (many of them), people wrote they tried it too and it works!
since oil is an isolater, and also a thermaltake liquid it it had no problem to run! although since that time to this moment I had a braek in computer hardware (coz of my job) and now I can't wait to experiment with this

my questions:
1. whould it work with a newests systems (i dont mean extrem hardware and top end cpus and vgas) but whould it work with let's say mid config p4 with average video card (not too fast and not too lame)
2. I also wanna know if anything significant changed in motherboard architecture that could result problems with this.
Thank You in advance!

mjones1 · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:20

It works with all new hardware but i think you should look into it much more deeply before you go out buying stuff since it's easy for things to go wrong.

ryujinjakka · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:25

i've seen a few setups like this myself but you need a way to cool the oil so trying to fit a radiator of some kind, and also getting decent passive heatsinks for the likes of cpu an gpu, its an interesting idea if done right but a lot can go wrong, an i think once u've had the parts submerged into the oil they might not work out of oil again but not sure on this

nikzt · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:36

Im missing a point of radiators tbh. well first ov all I have no idea which is more thermaltake oil or aluminium. coz if aluminium takes all the heat then it makes pointless 2 use radiator is it about right? as far as I understand heat needs to be spread all over the oil to regulate temperature , that is why i think radiator is useless if not harmful IN CASE it will hold all the heat!

JonJ678 · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:40

It wont let you overclock very high, as it can't get heat away from the heatsinks quickly enough. if you watercool a computer normally, so fans and radiators, then oil cool the rest you'll be fine.

Don't use vergetable oil, it goes rotten. Mineral oil instead

nikzt · 3 Aug 2009 at 19:46

The whole beauty of this is in beauty

not in ability 2 overclock imo.
1.first of all its SILENT and that's really huge!
2. then u can make it look really sick!
3. U wont have to bother buying/changing fans and cleaning motherboard and other stuff with brushes

all u have to do is change oil every after lets say 6 month! which is less painless

JonJ678 · 3 Aug 2009 at 20:19

Its not silent if you have hard drives hanging off the outside.

Problems to consider include
Oil seeping along cables which are partially submerged, e.g. oil forming under your mouse
Cooling the oil down (you seem to be just ignoring this part)
Changing components rather tricky
Anything with a hole in can't be submerged. Hard drives and optical drives are the big ones.
Oil goes off and rots
Changing oil unlikely to be painless
Whether the oil becomes electrically conductive over time

And the biggest problem of all is that water just does the job far better.

nikzt · 3 Aug 2009 at 20:33

I guess best way to find out is to actually try it!.. I dont see that happening anytime soon but once iv done the whole thing ill post video. with all details / hardware used and everything!
also id appriciate any links for videos about this stuff
thank you