Can you run oil in a water cooling system?

[TheGleaner]

I haven't heard of this before, but I was wondering, is this possible?

What i mean is; build a loop, and instead of water put oil.

I got this idea from the Rumley Oil-Pull tractors from the past, and do not see why their thinking would not work today.

I do not mean mineral oil, i mean actual oil.

Thanks

 

[Outlander_04]

The heat capacity of the oil should be higher but I see two potential issues .

1/ the heat capacity of even the water in a good water cooler might be higher than the ability of the contact plate to transfer heat from the cpu [ if I was designing one then thats how I would do it ] so using oil would give you ZERO advantage . The bottleneck is elsewhere, and largely determined by the physics behind processor and heatspreader design .

2/ the oil might well dissolve the seals in the cooling unit and/or be too high a viscosity for the pump to move . ie the mechanics of the system are unlikely to be optimal with oil

PS There was a bit of a craze for a while for oil immersed computers with the whole mb, cpu, RAM etc in a tank of mineral oil . Keeping the oil out of the cpu socket can be a problem . And so is the fact that its a stupid idea even if you make it work

 

[USAFRet]

I haven't heard of this before, but I was wondering, is this possible?

What i mean is; build a loop, and instead of water put oil.

I got this idea from the Rumley Oil-Pull tractors from the past, and do not see why their thinking would not work today.

I do not mean mineral oil, i mean actual oil.

Thanks

Tractors are not CPU chips.

 

[TheGleaner]

Their goal in 1910-1930 was to get lower operating temps than water cooling which they did, but I didn't know if it would apply on a smaller scale or not, so thanks outlander. Their other point was it could be filtered, wouldn't grow, wouldn't need replacing very often, and if it leaked it didn't really hurt anything. Those things were the main reason I even asked this question.

Like I really needed that usafret.

 

[USAFRet]

Their goal in 1910-1930 was to get lower operating temps than water cooling which they did, but I didn't know if it would apply on a smaller scale or not, so thanks outlander. Their other point was it could be filtered, wouldn't grow, wouldn't need replacing very often, and if it leaked it didn't really hurt anything. Those things were the main reason I even asked this question.

Like I really needed that usafret.

Just commenting that not everything scales equally, either larger or smaller, or completely different tech.