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I've seen a true380 power a 3.06ghz p4 w/1gb ddr, 2 raid0 36gb raptors, 120gb 7200rpm maxtor, radeon 9700pro, audigy 2 platinum, dvd drive, and dvd burner. It was hurting but it did it.
Your system has more power in some areas and less in others. The above machine and yours probably have similar power consumption.
If you consider overclocking or adding anymore hardware you WILL need a bigger PSU. If you do buy a new one I would give yourself plenty of overhead and get at least a true480.

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Hey Folken! Hows it hangin 😱 Im thinking of trying my mineral oil in my regular CPU cooling system. I wonder if the mineral oil would have better heat transfer properties? It wouldnt take but a few minutes to drain the Water out and fill the resivior with the mineral oil. I dont see what harm it would do. What do you think?

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That would be interesting to see what happens. If it doesn't work out so great though it will be sort of hard to get it all out, lol.
Do you have any pics up yet?

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Which logicly would mean it get cooler easier than water? In which case it has better heat tranfer properties....

Not that I know this for a fact, for all I know water cools off better, but I was just using logic on your post.

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I was thinking it also gets a lot hotter if you add the same amount of energy to it because water holds much more heat energy at the same temperature.
 
I dont know for sure, but I have submerged a mobo in mineral oil and can tell you that it doesnt conduct electricity well. In other words I feel safer with the mineral oil than I do with other distilled water. I have a very radical setup for cooling my exisiting liquid, so if the mineral oil sools even close to what the liquid cools then it may be the way to go. Im going to give it a shot today. Ill let yall know what happens.

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I wasn't talking conductivity, I was talking about heat energy.
Water can hold 41.800 joules/kg/kelvin.
Olive oil only does 16.500.
Paraffin is good for 21.300

Water is a worse heat conductor than mineral oil but the problem is that adding the same "amount" of heat to something like olive oil would result in a rise in temperature almost 3 times as high (if the heat transfer is optimal). The problem is that the oil could get very hot.
 
I knew what you were saying, I just threw the conductivity in there in case some of the newer people read this. I put the mineral oil in my rig about 5 mins ago and am stressing the system now. We shall see.

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Install an 8" X 8" aluminum plate on top of the radiator. You can cook breakfast while you surf!

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Im back! Wusy has me figured out. Thats scary :lol:

Ive got mixed feelings about the mineral oil. I dont think that I have had it going long enough to say for sure, but here is the way it looks so far.

(1) This wont fly if you dont have a heavy duty pump. The oil is alot thicker than I had first thought. My pump will push it fine, but its way more pump than most people would have. I usually have the flow set donw to the lowest setting. With the mineral oil I have to open the flow all the way.

(2) The one thing that looks to be for sure is that the oil keeps the average temp slightly lower. Again, I dont know what the temp is going to look like in 12 hrs, and that is what I am really interested in seeing. The other thing that seems to be true is that the temps dont change near as much as they do with water. Im looking at some printouts of my temps"using water" recorded over many hours and days under load as well as regular use and idle. Its not uncommon to see a drop of 6 - 7C the second I stop folding. With the oil the average temp has been lower, but the rise and fall is in a much tighter window. Now this brings up a couple of thoughts. 1. If the average temp over a long period of time stays lower than it would with water then oil may be the way to go. If the average temp with the oil gets to close to the average temp with water then I would think that long term the average temps that the CPU would be exposed to would be greater with OIL. Im only guessing, but doesnt it make sense that heat can shorten the life of a CPU in a few different circumstances? To much heat at one time could be bad, but a rise in the average heat over the long haul could also be bad.

What do yall think so far? Im going to monitor this for at least 12 more hrs. That will give me more data to crunch. If I can talk my professor into letting me use his computer, I can put the data in to a program he has and get some nice graphs printed out. If anybody can think of other questions, they would be welcome. I know that I am not thinking of all the possibilities.

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No pics up, but im getting there. I took your advise and broke out one of my old P3 550 systems. It took me a long enough, but I have finally got it back up and running. Ive been reading up on how to turn this thing into a server. Not as simple as I thought at first. Have you got any links that have some good Hot-To articles? As soon as I can get this system online and get my website going I will be ready to post some pics and video.

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I still dont know what the IRC thing is all about. Ive been in there a couple of times, but I dont have a clue. It would be nice if you would fill me in on the basics. AND DONT TELL ME TO GOOGLE IT :smile:

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I think <A HREF="http://www.clarkconnect.org/index.php" target="_new">ClarkConnect</A> is the easiest way to go. Just download the new version "Home 3.0" and put that on your old P3 :)
You will have a fully working server and/or router in no time. The install wizard has very easy step by step instructions. All the services you want to install are put on simply by checking a box next to them :)
You can even get free domain name and dns hosting through ClarkConnect.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have regarding its installation and/or administration. I wanna see those pics! lol

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Im sure I will have plenty of questions in the next couple of days. Im about to explode over getting this up and running. Ive got so much stuff that I want to put on there. Im big on logging all my benchmarks and test so that I can chart things out later. What im thinking about doing is having all my benchmarks, test, ect on my server so that anyone that may need to compare there results with the ones that I have done will have accsess to it. It would be nice if I could have it set up so that other people could post their results as well. That may be getting into security issues though?

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Almost forgot! I should have thought about this already, but the mineral oil is flowing alot better now that it has been running through the system for a few hours. I had to adjust the flow to slow it down. Of course you know what that means. Its obviously getting hotter. Its still beating the water as of now, but im thinking that it may continue to build up heat.

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