mineral oil cooling

[bigtomrodney]

Still id like to try oil cooling for the hell of it, and I am sober now.

And here I thought I was the only one who posted while drunk (No drunken Irishmen jokes please!

I'd love to go for it. I have plans to liquid cool my next tower, but I'm holding out for a year or so to see what happens in the chip market because I'm not sure what's happening there. I personally would like to be running linux on a cell processor but we'll have to wait and see...

[winter]

No drunken Irishmen jokes please!

I also second this. (despite only being half irish)

I'd love to go for it. I have plans to liquid cool my next tower, but I'm holding out for a year or so to see what happens in the chip market because I'm not sure what's happening there. I personally would like to be running linux on a cell processor but we'll have to wait and see...

Ye going to get the linux kit for ps3 if its within price range? ive decided that my next linux workstation will have a ibm cpu in it. Well ill be drawing up plans and knocking together a quick page,although ill be looking in to some alternatives that one do not conduct and two has a low fat content...i have a feeling oxidised fat is not that health for a system.

[bigtomrodney]

I will be getting the linux kit for the PS3 as soon as it's available!

[winter]

PS3 linux kit......because you can never have too much computing power.

[George Harrison]

Actually on hackaday they said the guy had his box running like that for a year and a half+ I believe. They said he needed to replace a fan once but that was it.

I wasn't questioning whether or not it would be a good idea in the sense that it would work or not, I'm sure it worked very well, what I'm saying is that oil doesn't just come off, it likes to stick to things, and you'd have to find a way to wash it off safely. No doubt this would invalidate your warrenty, the shops wouldn't want to take back a piece of hardware that been sitting in oil for weeks and then washed off and stuck back in the box.
There's just no need to go to these kinds of extremes, I care too much about my computer to even consider doing that to it.

Fair enough, we just got off on the wrong foot and didn't understand each other.

[Ndj]

Why do you think im going to use a old 600. Personaly id love to try cooling with purifyed water, pure h20 with no disolved salts or metals which means it cant conduct electricity. Also its how a few supercomputers are cooled.

Any way i'd like to try oil cooling my plan is to dunk the main parts in a tank and set a pump system to take heated oil and run it through a radiator thats cooled by fans or refrigeration. The only problem is a viscocity of an oil, on grpounds that if its too vicous it'll gunk the pump up.

Ive just seen the olive oil project how ever the only problem with that is that olive oil tends to gunk up and oxydise when heated suficantly.

Still id like to try oil cooling for the hell of it, and I am sober now.

Ok. first thing's first. water is a disolving agent. That means that it will corrode any metal it is in contact with, and in turn it will become sediment suspended in the water, thereby unpurifying your water and making it conductive. Oil is good, especially mineral oil, for acting as a preservative in reguards to the kinds of materials on a mainboard. Mineral oil is also very good at not becoming too vicous. The ideal situation is a petrolium based inert oil that has fair thermal conductivity, with a pump/radiator style cooling dynamic, or a refridgerant condenser also submerged in the oil, unfortunately the latter does not provide the fluid motion you would want for ideal cooling, but would provide the kind of situation that electronic circiutry performs ideally in (cold).

[Oxygen]

Our server used to have a home made water cooling system on it. The problem was the pump was an old novelty fake tap that HEATED the water. We had to refil it every now and then.