oil cooling

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hello all,


found this one afternoon. How effective would this be? considering oil can go down to much much lower temperatures than water.

cheers

tom
 
that looks like such a horrendously over-complicated system for a liquid-cooled machine, i would not advice unless you had a lot of experience in this field and a lot of money to burn!
 
Urgh I would even want to do something as over complicated as that, is quite sore on the eyes too, way too much going on. Looks like an engine room rather than the insides of a PC :p
 
thats mental! would love something like that in my system looks amazing, but just wouldnt know where to start, i've only just got to grips with a watercooling.

may as well stick an engine block in there the rest of the engine bay is already in there!
 
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If you're wanting oil cooling you may as well just dunk the whole rig in a tub of insulating oil like they do with high voltage switchgear, would be much easier and cheaper than that mess.
 
Interesting setup, slightly over complicated :D

But to go lower temps than ambient, Glycol system would be easier.
 
Oil cooling is more effective when everything is dunked. I saw an office setup where the PC was put in a mini aquarium with plastic fish etc inside. The heat from components created some nice bubbling effects. Problem was fans eventually stopped spinning due to thickness of oil creating extra work but no big deal since the oil removed heat quickly they where redundant. The other downside was the oil corroded some rubbers and plastics meaning some seals in the tank leaked. Ill see if i can hunt the logs.
 
feeddagoat said:
Oil cooling is more effective when everything is dunked. I saw an office setup where the PC was put in a mini aquarium with plastic fish etc inside. The heat from components created some nice bubbling effects. Problem was fans eventually stopped spinning due to thickness of oil creating extra work but no big deal since the oil removed heat quickly they where redundant. The other downside was the oil corroded some rubbers and plastics meaning some seals in the tank leaked. Ill see if i can hunt the logs.
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yeah so that on youtube, felt it was excessive though, getting you gear covered in oil and that

apparantly mineral oil doesnt conduct electricity, so its safe on circuit boards and other dlectronic stuff

 
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