mineral oil

Forum discussion tagged with mineral oil.
  1. David3290321

    [SOLVED] Immersion Cooling, Vegetable Oil or Mineral Oil?

    Hi, I want to make a dual pc immersion cooling build. Got all my components besides the oil/dielectric coolant. Coolant is very expensive, I have a 10 Gal tank and 8 Gal of Immersion cooling oil cost $130 but 10 Gal of Vegetable Oil only cost around $35. I know all oil is non conducive but I...
  2. Czarwolf

    [SOLVED] Submerged Computer

    Good day all! Ive been pondering moving my computer from a standard air cooled build to a mineral oil submerged build for some time. She has always had cooling issues despite having an case with eight fans. Ive used Liquid cooling which worked great for a season and now im back to a standard...
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    Question using mineral oil

    So I notice that people are dipping their internal PC into a fish tank and not using reservoir and tubs. is that because the tubs corrode faster in mineral oil or it just the cool thing to do
  4. EspurrTGreat

    Question Constant crashes and weird errors

    I have recently built a mineral oil pc and the first day it worked fine with now errors. However now ever since the cooling fan became detached and I installed a new one it has been extremely unstable. Every OS I have on there has been crashing including Debian. Windows comes back with the bsod...
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    [SOLVED] Trying to plan an oil cooler system

    Been seeing a lot online about mineral oil having issues over water cooling. One being less heat transfer etc. I've seen many threads on here about similar topics but haven't seen one that is an actual match to the idea I'm working on. So this is what I'm thinking, system will be pretty high...
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    [SOLVED] Should i submerge my hard-drive in my mineral oil pc?

    So i have buildt a pc that is submerged in mineral oil. Since the hardrive (2tb seagate hdd) makes quite a lot noice can i submerge it in mineral oil with all the other parts?
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    Question Is there a seperate cpu cooler for submerging in mineral oil

    Hi Is there a seperate cpu heatsink design if you submerge it in mineral water, or is there a custom fan made to work better in mineral oil. And is mineral oil like more "thicker" as like honey or is it like water?
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    ViewSonic XG2401 vs AOC G2460PF

    There's about 50€ diffrence beetwen these 2 monitors. I'm mostly playing CS:GO. So i would like to know which one is better? Some say the ViewSonic is one of the good 144hz TN monitors for this price. And some say the AOC colours are washed up. Both have freesync so that's nice. Btw is there...
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    3GB ATI Radeon HD7970

    can a 460 watt power supply be good on an i7 -860 windows 10 . 12gb
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    my computer toshiba l655d shut off a week ago now i cant boot or find my o.s it says there isnt one and no recovery cd

    my hard drive erased all my windows os and i have no recovery image it was windows 7 please help
  11. M

    A new Motherboard

    I can only run older cards on my motherboard, and when I put in new cards it will not post will a new mother board fix this? if so what one. The cpu ram and every thing else are fine and the psu. Its a 1155 socket
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    Which course for someone really interested into computers and technology?

    I'm really under pressure a few days ago thinking if I passed my college entrance exam. Fortunately, I passed! and I didn't expect to get so many choices and opportunities. I am now pressured again, my brother recommends me to get Information technology because it is quite a demand here. My mom...
  13. R

    HDMI looks worse than VGA and DVI

    hi, i have the 7850 card and a 24inch full hd led 1080p tv/monitor. i have connected the screen to the desktop via HDMI cable. the resolution is at 1920x1080 (native display for screen) but it looks really bad. It is grainy and worse than a VGA connection. anyone help me? thanks
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    OCZ Revodrive X2 driver help

    So today i got an 220GB OCZ Revodrive X2,and find myself unable to install the drivers, as the operation times out. My question is, does anyone have a way to install the drivers that works?