oil cooling wtf? xD

belial8321 · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:41

is this for real? im not sure what to make of it..

stulid · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:47

Oil doesn't conduct electricity, so its fine.

electrical transformers you see out in the roads use oil to separate the plates.

3M do a product called something like Flurinert, that is like water and has been used to cool Cray supercomputers, just submerge all the components in it.

RJC · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:52

Yep, oil is non conductive, so can be used to submerge pc's in if your that way inclined, Toms Hardware did a video a while ago on the same thing.

belial8321 · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:52

ahh i didnt know that, rather a cool concept, although changing hardware would be a bitch? XD

RJC · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:55

Def a bit slimy, you can always use it to cook your chips afterwords! :eek:

Aedus · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:57

RJC said:
Def a bit slimy, you can always use it to cook your chips afterwords!

Just Tri-SLI some 480's :cool:

joemo13 · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:01

How do they stop oil coming out of the wires? Surely it will leak out because of capillary action!

stulid · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:04

joemo13 said:
How do they stop oil coming out of the wires? Surely it will leak out because of capillary action!

you use custom terminals on the pc case, so the oil cant get past, so its fully sealed.

23JMZ07 · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:15

Oil cooled computers also have other major perks.

Imagine if you will that whilst you are perusing your favorite gentlemens material, you suddenly realise that there is no "friction eliminator" within the immediate vicinity. A quick dip in the computer and its happy days.

Randall8686 · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:23

23JMZ07 said:
Oil cooled computers also have other major perks.

Imagine if you will that whilst you are perusing your favorite gentlemens material, you suddenly realise that there is no "friction eliminator" within the immediate vicinity. A quick dip in the computer and its happy days.

you thought about that too much !

Admetos · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:27

HDD's have a small hole (vent) to match air pressure. It will take a while but the HDD in this video will eventually fail.

rgritchie · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:31

The worst part is that the oil they use is actually a horse laxative, you can get some very funny looks asking for enough to fill a computer case

belial8321 · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:34

23JMZ07 said:
Oil cooled computers also have other major perks.

Imagine if you will that whilst you are perusing your favorite gentlemens material, you suddenly realise that there is no "friction eliminator" within the immediate vicinity. A quick dip in the computer and its happy days.

LOL XD thats one use for it

panyan · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:35

23JMZ07 said:
Imagine if you will that whilst you are perusing your favorite gentlemens material, you suddenly realise that there is no "friction eliminator" within the immediate vicinity. A quick dip in the computer and its happy days.

both the source of the multimedia and the lubricant on one happy system

23JMZ07 · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:41

panyan said:
both the source of the multimedia and the lubricant on one happy system

Indeed!

belial8321 · 11 Apr 2011 at 23:30

This thread went a little off topic.. XD

waveydave79 · 11 Apr 2011 at 23:54

the oil cooling is old, would work well to start with, but depending on pure the oil is might be iffy later. Vegitable oil would stink after a while. Certainly wouldnt want to be dipping expensive £200 gpus into there.

belial8321 · 12 Apr 2011 at 01:02

Indeed, i still cant imagine pouring oil all over my system :s i mean, if u used vegetable oil, and ur system ran hot, u cud fry chips in it XD

Waza · 12 Apr 2011 at 09:04

belial8321 said:
Indeed, i still cant imagine pouring oil all over my system :s i mean, if u used vegetable oil, and ur system ran hot, u cud fry chips in it XD

Lol oh that's bad

dunnyuk · 12 Apr 2011 at 12:40

deep fried pc and chips.