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Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail
notthatwillsmith writes "Everyone's seen mods where someone super-cools a PC by submersing it in a non-conductive oil. It's a neat idea, but most components aren't designed to withstand a hot oil bath; after prolonged exposure materials break down and components begin to fail. Maximum PC has an exclusive hands-on, first look at the new Hardcore Computer Reactor, the first oil-cooled PC available for sale. Hardcore engineered the Reactor to withstand the oil, using space-age materials and proprietary oil. The Reactor's custom-manufactured motherboard, videocards, memory, and SSD drives are submersed in the oil, while the dry components sit outside the bulletproof tank. The motherboard lifts out of the oil bath on rails, giving you relatively easy access to components, and the overall design is simply jaw-dropping. Of course, we'd expect nothing less for a machine with a base price of $4000 that goes all the way up to $11k for a fully maxed out config."
There is a joke involving Natalie Portman and hot oil here, but I just can't quite find it :(
When I am web surfing and playing solitaire, I can't afford to have my CPU or graphics card overheat. And don't even get me started on email.
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Seriously? Space age materials?
Did anyone inform them that the space age was the 1960s?
Hey, if I'm paying 11 grand for a machine, it damn well better be bulletproof.
FTA: every centimeter of the machine oozes custom computing.
I hope that's all it's oozing.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
They're trying to appeal to two growing demographics: hardcore gaming mobsters and gangsta autocad designers
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Ignoring for the moment what will happen when you tell someone your plans for the weekend are to oil up your new computer.....
I know that air cooling has its limitations, but there is something nice about knowing your computer is not going to spooge all over your desk or floor. And working on this thing will be a real nasty mess.
But if you are an alternate fuels kind of person, then your diesel Smart and your PC can both smell like french fries.
Seriously, if they have to ship this thing empty, how to you return it for warranty work? I promise you that UPS or FedEx will not be happy if your package begins oozing oil in their truck. This may be the best thing to hit town since, oh, Orgasm Queen of the SS (Godwin and porn in one post!), but I will wait a few years before I will buy an oil cooled PC.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Glance at the summary? You're new here, aren't you?
your money goes to support vladimir putin, hugo chavez and saudi wahabbism
do the patriotic thing and buy a domestic american wind immersion pc
and if you aren't in an area where a wind immersion pc is practical, follow t boone pickens' lead and get yourself a natural gas immersed pc
eh... on second thought, maybe not such a good idea, a natural gas immersed pc, heh
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Exactly, what happens when someone comes busting in and puts a cap in your gaming rig?
We all know what happened to the XBox when it got shot... the DVD was knocked off it's track.
(sorry, I looked but couldn't find a link)
From the article:
the machine should never really run higher than ambient room temperature if all is well
How long after you switch it on does the ambient room temperature make it up to the operating temperature of the pc?
Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as half-empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh
Can we demand an open-source version of the oil for us hardcore geeks?
You gotta be kidding me. I've seen "PC in a tank of oil" on Slashdot half a dozen times. Or is it not a real technology company if they don't have at least one bogus patent on an obvious process?
rushes off to patent "Method for legitimizing a company and attracting venture capital by means of a transparently invalid patent application"
See, now you're getting it.
2. Attract VCs
3. Profit
4. ???
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Fo shizzle.
Read all the claims. The patent is not defined by its title, but by its claims. If the claims are too vague, open for interpretation and as a(n indirect) result covers existing inventions and/or obvious implementations - that's when you complain about a patent.
No, silly. If I'm on Slashdot, and I have an excuse to mention patents - that's when I complain about a patent.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Great! Now we're going to be dependant on foreign oil not only to run our cars, but now to run our COMPUTERS?!? I'm so disgusted, I didn't even read the summary. Our addiction has reached new heights. What's next, making PLASTIC out of oil? Sheesh.
Bulletproof? Seriously?
Yes, but only for very small values of bullet
No, it runs SL/IX and the main processor is made by Texaco Instruments.
There is a shell scripting language but the interface is a bit crude.
There will be a Mobil Computing version next year.
I'll stop now.
AT&ROFLMAO
They're trying to appeal to two growing demographics: hardcore gaming mobsters and gangsta autocad designers
They're trying to appeal to the Scots- we'll deep-fry anything!
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Thanks. That was perfect:
First off, the summary reads like a press release, as does TFA, is Slashdot that desperate for cash these days? Secondly, the $ITEM itself seems like a pretty useless gimmick.
I don't understand who is supposed to be buying this thing at $LOWPRICE-$HIPRICE.
Hardcore $HOBBY? OK the thing has excellent $FEATURE, but not much better than you could achieve with a decent $COMPETE_TECH $ITEM at a fraction of the price. This group will be put off by the proprietry(and probably overpriced)upgrades and the difficulty of actually $MAINTENANCE the thing, not to mention the pricetag.
$HOBBY2? Why would they pay this much over the odds for a $ITEM that's at best $PERCENT_BETTER% $VERB than a commodity $ITEM? Again, this group will be put off by the lack of a decent $ALTERNATIVE.
$HOBBY3? This group might be interested at first, the one thing an $ITEM might arguably be useful for is $FEATURE. But at $LOWPRICE+, you've got to be joking, there are already very good solutions at a fraction of that price.
Ultimately I just don't see any need for this kind of $ITEM, $ITEM's just don't $BEHAVIOR that it's worth dealing with the hassle. ;)
Whenever you read these overclocking and gaming sites it gets really tedious that they always have to call a computer a 'rig'. But finally, we have an instance where the name is entirely appropriate.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Yo bitch, this be Killahertz and you is creepin on mah terryterry!
I will put a motherfucking slug in yo motherfucking rig, you got me byatch?
Isn't most of your cuisine based on dares anyway?
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Now when somebody tells you to shove that computer up your ass, it'll have plenty of lube to go in smoothly.
I have to take my pc AND my car to Meineke to get an oil change. Im gonna be poor soon.
What I really want to know is where do you find a repair outlet equipped to deal with the specific problems involved with opening and repairing an oil-filled cube? I can't help it but giggle when I imagine someone calling Dell tech support and being asked to 'please open the PC and reseat the memory'...