Oil Cooling 2012

[Domi]

Ok who has tried and how well does it work ?

It seems to me that the current generation of top end hardware is not as power hungry as before and that this just might be an uber silent option.
Most of the cost of this option frankly is in the pump arrangement could it be done without.

Like water cooling Oil cooled still seems to need a flow and so a pump and probably fans, is anybody expert enough to know if this is actually true ?

Could for example a mineral Oil bath cool 350-400w WITHOUT a flow/pump/fans ?

 

[Domi]

Just to clarify Oil cooling would be a submerged system not simply a watercooled system with water replaced with oil.

Without a pump we are talking a sealed system for example in a glass case, my theory is using glass we get good heat convection from the oil to the surrounding air ?

The question is how hot the oil gets , does it convect enough heat away from the components and does it need circulation.

Would even a large fan rotating within the liquid work to cool the oil.

 

[Domi]

So maybe rather than the fish tank type method peeps use, some sort of enclosed metal case.
Ideally a sealed except from the top metal case where the case itself is the radiator with a large fan in the oil giving circulation.

I am of course no expert and no engineer but it just seems like this would work.

Obviously the bit I am not understanding must be just how quickly the oil heats up and its lack of heat dissapation but surely its possible to passively cool 300w over a quite large surface area.

It clearly can work well this is becoming quite common in industrial use I was just hoping we were nearer for more mainstream enthusiasts.