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how much cooling do you guys think the mineral oil would bring down the temps?! If the benefits are rewarding then we might as well all use mineral oil than the loud fans I'm using.
 
It works, and highly refined mineral oil has been used for cooling high power transformers for a long time, but for a pc it's a stupid idea. You would have to make the case leak free for one, which is harder then it sounds. Also, think about the mess if the case sprung a leak, or you wanted to change a component, or if the case tipped over somehow. The thing would be so heavy that you would have to drain the oil whenever you moved it, even if it's just across the room. Oil cooling a pc just isnt practical.

Oh, and this has been posted in one form or another countless times here.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing a setup like this complete with some rads and an active cooling system for the oil. Would love to know what the max OC one could get on this sucker would be. Someone should try doing this with a SFF case. Just to see how portable it would be. Just my two copper though.
 
i'd totally just get some wicked high cfm fans and make a whirl pool so they wouldn't work as hard and the cooling would be better... and maybe just dump the stuff in a circular tank instead of in a square one... maybe put some of thoes gay little fish tank castles in it? hahaha... i wonder what the burning point of that oil is?
 
i'd totally just get some wicked high cfm fans and make a whirl pool so they wouldn't work as hard and the cooling would be better... and maybe just dump the stuff in a circular tank instead of in a square one... maybe put some of thoes gay little fish tank castles in it? hahaha... i wonder what the burning point of that oil is?
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Add some little plastic fishys that will float in the middle and some of those fish tank pebbles and you've got something someone will go bug eyed at.
 
i'd totally just get some wicked high cfm fans and make a whirl pool so they wouldn't work as hard and the cooling would be better... and maybe just dump the stuff in a circular tank instead of in a square one... maybe put some of thoes gay little fish tank castles in it? hahaha... i wonder what the burning point of that oil is?
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the whirlpool isnt a bad idea.
 
Most pure mineral oil's flash point is around 190-230 degrees Celcius, although it's risky to bring some of the stuff above 120 C. It's not something you're likely to come across in a computer environment. That said, it is a major danger if it does happen, since mineral oil burns fairly well.
 
well thats next, try to modify a car radiator to cool a mineral oiled computer 😀

or a turbocharger intercooler would do the same job.

but as pionted out, the thing would weigh a ton!
 
just need long copper tubing that you can coil up, add a fan over it, put a pump in the middle, mount it to the back (with some space to breath) and stick the cool end to the bottom and the hot end over the top, and there you go. Yes, it would be expensive, but if mounted right won't put any weight on the tank.

Besides with a tank like that your not going to move your computer anyways.
 
the reason i wanted to know about the flash point is if something shorted out or burnt up... or maybe you know when you get static build up... would it light from a little jump from your finger grounding out? that and the dude submerged the psu... the components on those can sometimes get very hot... especially if there's a short... (eg, ever smell your stereo system fry? power amps are finicky) but in theory I like the idea...

and yes, the whirl pool idea is a good idea. 😛 haha. thanx
 
The boiling point and flash point of mineral oil is high enough you'd never hit it no matter how much heat your generating from your pc.
 
I wouldn't be worried about the pc components... it's just that if somthing shorted.
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if your worried about sparking a fire from a short just remember that fire needs O2 to spark and if the case is filled with oil that can't happen
 
so as long as you keep the components below the top of the oil then a short wouldn't even cause a problem. I wonder though, how often would you have to change the oil? I know it wouldn't be as often a vegetable oil, but don't most oils eventually break down?
 
You won't have to worry about dust if at the top you use some type of sealing lid. And it will help to keep people from sticking appendages in there or other things. 😛
 
dirt gets everywhere... i'd still put a filter on it... even if you're using brand new parts... and i was thinking, how is this going to affect the actual pcb... is that material going to soak up the oil and warp?

I bet everything slides into the slots nice and easy! haha... and another great advantage to this is that the WHOLE PC is utilizing liquid cooling... not just parts with heat sinks on em...
 
i lke the idea, and firstly it cools much better than air, water is 27X better than air, Oil more so (hence frying fans). i think THG used a CNPS 7700 cu with ou the fan instead of force the fan around, that way the heat is still beeing take.

you wouldnt need a raditor because of convection, the hot would rise, and only sink when cool
 
The problem with submerged oil cooling is lack of circulation. Modern chips and their sockets are simply too tiny for oil to penetrate and then circulate. Hot spots can develop as a result of tiny air pockets behind components, and the result is premature death of the motherboard and/or CPU.
 
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