Mineral Oil Submerged Computer

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Full details at Cooling a computer by submerging it in mineral oil. In an aquarium, it looks great!

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: May 6, 2007 at 12:52 am
Author: pugetsys

Length: 00:03:44
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Tags: mineral oil submerged computer aquarium

Video Comments:
xojix (January 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm)
The idea is that you don't leave your system on 24/7 with this set-up, they later did a follow up using a radiator and under full load the cpu was never above 46C or so. And it takes a looong time for the oil to heat up, no real problems there, even then their system capped at 80C without the radiator so this is an effective cooling solution for HTPCs or the like.
Lokivoid (January 7, 2009 at 3:07 am)
And i still see no cooling for the oil, you might aswell just consider this a really expensive Deepfryer. And to the person asking if you can do it with water... Techniquely you can if its fully de-ionized water, Though thats risky you would have to constantly filter it though a deionizer to prevent a short.
curtisofwalker (January 6, 2009 at 3:25 pm)
You Can use pure Distilled water, but you have to use a conductivity filter.. They run around 40$ sold by filtrine, circulate the water using through the filter using a fish tank pump.
masterisprzem (January 2, 2009 at 4:17 pm)
now let in some fishes
bloppo11 (January 3, 2009 at 4:50 pm)
u better dont :p
werakoko (January 2, 2009 at 7:59 am)
PC will burn if u do so :P
cihuaua (January 2, 2009 at 7:50 am)
Why no?
cihuaua (January 1, 2009 at 11:13 am)
Could I use water instead of oil??
Gocur1 (January 2, 2009 at 7:38 am)
NO!!!
4wang2chung0 (January 4, 2009 at 1:49 am)
if you want a broken computer i guess you could. lol. but the reason they use mineral oil is because it is not electrically conductive. water however, is conductive. so if a conductor connected two parts that werent supposed to be connected, your computer will short out, (fry). you get what im saying?