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

So what's the point of posting this?

[the_macman]

Don't mean to troll or anything but why is this on the front page of NEWS for nerds? It's been done before. It's not really a new idea and I'm sure this page could easily be found via Google. I guess this is what happens on slow news days? :\

Re:So what's the point of posting this?

[the_macman]

Thank you mods. I post "Don't mean to troll" and I get modded -1 Trolling. Thank you idiot mods.

do you suck dick?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Motor Oil... Use Jet Turbine Oil instead!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Use oil intended for gas turbine engines... especially the grade they use for operations in the arctic / antarctic regions since it's thinner viscosity. These synthetic oils will not go rancid and will handle temperature peaks that your PC will never reach.

Also you may wish to try DOT-5 brake fluid. It's silicone-based and very low viscosity with excellent thermal transfer properties.