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

Obligitory...

[fak3r]

Would you like fries with that?

Re:And don't forget cause!=correlation

[Kobun]

Of course, there is only one true answer:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster caused it to work this way.

http://www.venganza.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mons ter/

Re:uuh.

[Lendrick]

Another example being if the sealing were to catastrophically fail, you'd have 8 gallons of cooking oil that wanted out, and if you weren't at home could very well destroy the board.

...and your floor.