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Vodka freezes at a colder temperature than water, and also boils at a lower temperature than water. You could use this to your advantage if you set things up right. Freon boils at room temperature and is an excellent substance for moving heat around. You get your most significant cooling when the liquid boils (or evaporates). It takes more energy to move water from 99-101 degrees Celsius than it does to go from 59-61 degrees Celsius. That's because water boils at 100 and it's undergoing a transformation from liquid to gaseous phase. That takes a lot of energy to accomplish.

But based on your vague clues you're dropping, it sounds like you simply plan to submerge your Sempron in a big bucket of alcohol. This is the exact opposite of what THG did. They submerged the PC in a vat of oil. Oil boils at a much higher temperature than water. If you use vodka or any other type of alcohol, it will probably evaporate quickly unless sealed, then you lose the thermal benefits of evaporation.

This is all assuming vodka doesn't conduct electricity. I won't assume that. Go to Radio Shack and get a multitester. Test the conductivity of vodka and other alcohols. Also try adding a small amount of salt to the alcohol solution. Test that too. It's important. Here's why.

Most people think water conducts electricity. But that's not true. Pure water is a very very poor substance for conducting electricity. However, if you're in the water, it suddenly becomes a very good conductor. Why? Because the sweat on your skin has salt on it and the salt is enough to change the properties of the water. You will get electrocuted in the bathtub if the hair dryer falls in.

Let us assume that when you worked on the computer before, you left trace amounts of sweat (salt) on the computer parts. Let us further assume that the water component of the sweat has long since evaporated but the salt remains. If you add something that can use salt to become highly conductive, you will fry your components.
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Yes i do plan on submerging my sempron in vodka and thank you for the info i will read the rest of the post later now now it's time for work bye guys see ya in a few hours.
 
Ethanol has a thermal conductivity of .19W/mK and isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) has a thermal conductivity of .14W/mK. These are lower than water (.603 W/mK) and oil. This means that alcohol is not as good at dissipating heat in a sealed system

In terms of electrical conductivity, Isopropyl alcohol has a conductivity of 3.5 pS/cm and ethanol has a conductivity of .0013 pS/cm. This means ethanol is a very bad conductor. (Distilled water is .04 pS/cm)

BUT - unfortunately pure ethanol is almost impossible to come by (on Earth). Unfortunately we have too much pesky water. So, 100 proof vodka (4pS/cm), 90 proof gin (10pS/cm) are not good insulators. They would fry your MB pretty quickly. If you want to dunk your MB in something, try vegetable oil.
 
I think you need to remember that alchohols are corrosive. I don't think you're board will do to well afterwards. Take any form of plant and put it into some Everclear. That's a little more extreme, but it'll give you an idea of what alchohol can do to stuff.
 
I hope you're not serious! Besides being flammable (bad), vodka is a conductor of electricity (worse). The conductivity of water is 0.1016 µS/in, the conductivity of soybean oil is 0 µS/in, the conductivity of 100 proof vodka on the other hand is 10 µS/in. So, assuming you immerse your PC into a flammable, volatile, and conductive liquid, I think it would be a pretty safe bet that you can take Dell up on one of their current special offers... By the way, your home insurance is paid up isn't it? :idea:

If your really interested in a boozed up computer, try chocolate liquor, at least its non-flammable and the conductivity is 0 µS/in. It is a little bit on the sticky and messy side though... :wink:
 
What you need to use is some ever clear in a copper pipe set up (unless you can get moonshine) build a giant heat pipe outside your case... This would require some work but you could go both fanless and pumpless I would think. If done properly like one pipe going to your custom CPU block at level and one above that one at a angle going up (for the now gas state alchy) and a car radiator for it to cool and return back to its liquid state.

Edit:Maybe a oil cooler or trasmission cooler they are smaller and would be easyer to use.

here is a good page with some more information.

http://www.cheresources.com/htpipes.shtml

looking at the chart acetone looks like it has the perfect boiling point temp.
 
If you're planning to put vodka or alcohol in a typical water cooling unit the vapor pressure would be much higher than water and iwill most likely cause a rupture.

A custom system which can handle the vapor pressure might work, as suggested by JonathanDeane
 
I have been thinking about the pressure thing if you could cap it while its hot the pressure would be lower and actualy in the negatives at room temp. Lower pressures lower the boiling point of liquids and would increase the cooling. Anyway this is all just thoery anyway as who would build such a crazy set up...
 
while this is sorta off topic it still applies.

if dvd is looking for a different liquid to put in a water cooling system why not antifreeze for cars? It doesnt freeze untill 20f or 30f below (I think), can handle high heat and not boil, and it transferrs heat well. But, I thought that is what water cooling systmes already come with.
 
while this is sorta off topic it still applies.

if dvd is looking for a different liquid to put in a water cooling system why not antifreeze for cars? It doesnt freeze untill 20f or 30f below (I think), can handle high heat and not boil, and it transferrs heat well. But, I thought that is what water cooling systmes already come with.
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The main reason it doesnt boil is becouse its under alot of pressure if it was at the same pressure as say air at sea level it boils when your car is warmed up. If you where to drive you car for like 20 minutes then stop the engine jump out and uncap your radiator real fast the fluid would gush out realy fast. Higher pressure raises the boiling point of fluids. I think they do use antifreeze for cooling kits though the main reason is that it keeps parts from corroding and also acts as a lubricant for the pump.
 
He's planning on submerging his MOBO in the vodka like the Tomshardware OIL PC not watercooling... read the entire post.

Yes i do plan on submerging my sempron in vodka and thank you for the info i will read the rest of the post later now now it's time for work bye guys see ya in a few hours.
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Yea, you could do that pressure trick but not in a case. There's too many holes to seal off, and too many brittle components inside. :?
Plus, you'd need a heavily reinforced case.

Ideally you want something with 0 conductivity.
Although a little might only be a problem if it gets to the cpu pins, which you should seal off anyway and the PCI/AGP/PCI-E buses.

PLEASE TAKE A VIDEO or PICTURES of you filling up the case with Vodka.

I'm sure a lot of us want to see your computer go up in flames...
I hope that Sempron isnt your only computer. :lol:
 
I think a better way of doing it would be to
put a square plastic container on top and seal it of on the bottom next to the cpu like so:


...|~~~~~~|
...|~Vodka~| --------------------- > Vodka out
...|~~~~~~|
...|~~~~~~|
...|~~~~~~| --------------------- < Vodka in
...|---CPU---|
|---------------| Mounting bracket.
---------------------------------------- MOBO


That way you're not dealing with burning up your mobo and graphics card but you still get that cooling power of vodka on your cpu. :roll:
 
We are talking about Vodka here, Vodka will have some sort of impurities it will NOT be pure alchol so it WILL conduct.

Say you get your hands on pure Ethanol 99.99% pure, because its a solvent im sure it will collect ions and will eventually conduct. Pure ethanol very flamable near a HOT CPU..... hrmz.

It is true that pure H2O is a poor conductor , but are we really going to double distill our tap water then run it though reverse osmosis and a millipore filter?..... hrmz
 
First off does vodka conduct electricity? Second does vodka conduct heat better than water. Third i'm asking cause i plan to use my sempron for an experiment.
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Do you ever think before posting?
Vodka has simple water in it...not a long explanaition, but I think this will do the job 8)
 
He's planning on submerging his MOBO in the vodka like the Tomshardware OIL PC not watercooling... read the entire post.

Yes i do plan on submerging my sempron in vodka and thank you for the info i will read the rest of the post later now now it's time for work bye guys see ya in a few hours.
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Yea, you could do that pressure trick but not in a case. There's too many holes to seal off, and too many brittle components inside. :?
Plus, you'd need a heavily reinforced case.

Ideally you want something with 0 conductivity.
Although a little might only be a problem if it gets to the cpu pins, which you should seal off anyway and the PCI/AGP/PCI-E buses.

PLEASE TAKE A VIDEO or PICTURES of you filling up the case with Vodka.

I'm sure a lot of us want to see your computer go up in flames...
I hope that Sempron isnt your only computer. :lol: I already did it with cooking oil and an old aquarium and yes i did take some pics but i lost the camera.
 
[/quote] I already did it with cooking oil and an old aquarium and yes i did take some pics but i lost the camera.[/quote]
I already did it with cooking oil and an old aquarium and yes i did take some pics but i lost the PC, so I can´t post. :)
 
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