Is the untimate in silence OIL????

[MR_PEA]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/

just makes ya think dunn it..

[Bignick]

me and pete were talkin about this a few lans ago, oil being a non-conductive liquid perfect for cooling, i would want maybe 1 fan in the middle to move things around abit. only downside, it would be pretty heavy. and the PSU would be pretty hard to do.

[FROSTY BoSkitzo]

Fkn... HEAVY IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
some of those rigs with all the HDDs in em are already hard enough to lift.

Add (was it 8 gallons?) of that shit! fuck!

Was that a video they had for sale, or like... what? Step by Step instructions there? coundnt see any :(

Either way... Someone should try it (heh, like who has the money these days?)

[dominatrix]

well, i mean... wouldnt be all that much money. but what i wanna know is how they sealed up the external motherboard connections! they didnt use silicone or anything on the outside...

30L, prolly a bit over 30 extra kg. so yeah, that would be fucking heavy :P

[Snoopy]

was an interesting read, they do some good shit at THG. wish i had that kind of money to spend on computers :(

[MR_PEA]

i wonder how it would last over a longer scale.. ie one year??

[Bignick]

would adding a UV reactive dye fuck up the non-conductiveness of the oil? cos that would look pretty damn sweet.

[mudgie]

I'm amazed that this works... We discussed it a while ago, Biggie, but with regular water (and the components being shrink wrapped :)).

It would be great for servers, but I doubt even my buldging muscles could be bothered carting that around to LANs :P.

[Aphex]

quite simply if you had high end gear to waste drowning in oil, then go ahead, i think i'll stay with the regular methods of cooling...
but as mentioned above it does make you think, i mean far from conventional cooling by anymeans... but cool to see it work...
i might drown one of my many P3's in oil and see what happens for kicks hehehe

[mudgie]

quite simply if you had high end gear to waste drowning in oil, then go ahead, i think i'll stay with the regular methods of cooling...
but as mentioned above it does make you think, i mean far from conventional cooling by anymeans... but cool to see it work...
i might drown one of my many P3's in oil and see what happens for kicks hehehe
Yeah, I'm not going to dunk my 'puter in oil just yet ;). It would make working on the computer too much of a bitch! But how long 'til we see motherboards coming encased in a liquid coffin, out of the box? :).

[Peter]

a long time, as you need a large volume of oil for it to be worth doing, as the oil will heat up. :)


still a pretty cool idea i suppose you could put some pumps threw some massive radiators to help disperse some of the heat, as it could build up patentually. still pretty interesting

but for now i think ill stick to good old air cooling :)

[<3 Ropey]

yeah air cooling does the job just fine

[cvt]

Liquid Sapphire!!! (aka Novec1230)
Much better choise, if I can get my hands on the shit affordably I WILL be doing that!
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oil as a fact is not that good at conductig heat, specially compared to novec1230.. and if you use the wrong oil, some are conductive...

[MR_PEA]

just an update toms has released some emails that peeps like ya self have send em
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/02/strip_out_the_fans/

enjoy