Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil

The Last Gunslinger writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has published an article (complete with video) showing how they employed their own approach to the liquid cooled computer. To offset the loss of normal airflow around their Athlon FX-55 and GeForce 6800Ultra, the mad scientists in the lab decided to fill the case up with 8 gallons of cooking oil. The oil temperature leveled off at a comfy 104F during benchmarking operations intended to tax both the CPU and GPU to their limits. Interestingly enough, they first attempted this operation using deionized water. It worked for 5 minutes before developing short circuits...but the hardware was amazingly undamaged." Slashdot has covered similar projects in the past but it was neat to see the differences in oil and the look at capacitance around the CPU pins.

Comments

Put an Intel in there

[homerules]

...and make french fries.

What's that, boss?

[mmell]

The quarterly financials? Sure. Oh, and the software projections? You've got it.

Would you like fries with that?

Ugh

[voice_of_all_reason]

Did this guy take pointers from the William Shatner School of Websites?

You get like half a...

a sentence and then...

have to click Next Page...

Re:Shortening, as in

[Arhat]

So would this mean a machine cooled in such a fashion could be a Crisco Router.

And for those one-handed computing sessions...

[R2.0]

the lube is right there!

Pre-warmed, even.