Oil cooled PC.

Nightglow · 7 Sep 2012 at 13:45

Intel been playing with oil, using it for cooling, might make water cooling redundant in a few years.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cooling/44789-oil-used-cool-cook-intel-proves-concept/

pgi947 · 7 Sep 2012 at 13:50

Its an interesting concept, but imagine trying to sell on your old oil soaked parts?

Lets try it with a dual socket 1366 board and quad 480's, then we can make fish fingers and chips while we game

Nightglow · 7 Sep 2012 at 13:53

pgi947: See this link.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php

pgi947 · 7 Sep 2012 at 13:57

They even recommend using a radiator I have!

This caught my eye though:

This project is intended as a cool conversation piece, and a fun do-it-yourself project. Due to the risk of tank failure if the oil reaches temperatures above 75C, we do not recommend submerging overclocked or extremely hot hardware in this system.

Maybe a project to try on an old 1366 system before dunking £2k worth of equipment in oil

Edit: I think I saw a similar system a while ago but it used a condensor rather than a radiator.

MikeHunt79 · 31 Oct 2012 at 02:52

Intel are behind the times, it's been done back in the days of the Pentium 2:

Dayzed&Confused · 31 Oct 2012 at 14:50

MikeHunt79 said:
Intel are behind the times, it's been done back in the days of the Pentium 2:

Is it meant to be bubbling at one end, or is that where the battered mars bar is?

Gregster · 31 Oct 2012 at 15:24

I toyed with this idea and still am. I want a small quiet system in my bedroom just for streaming to my TV. Who knows? When I have some available funds again, I probably will.

MikeHunt79 · 31 Oct 2012 at 18:48

Dayzed&Confused said:
Is it meant to be bubbling at one end, or is that where the battered mars bar is?

The bubbling was because the owner got hungry and made some chips.