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| Nerull:
--- Quote from: zucca on February 16, 2017, 08:08:54 am --- --- Quote from: avrishuvorlaz on February 16, 2017, 01:00:05 am ---What a complete and utter waste of time and resources. --- End quote --- BOOOM. Sometime someone just need a silent PC. Have a nice day brother... take it easy it is just a forum. :D --- End quote --- You still have to cool your coolant, it won't be silent. You need pumps and fans. One of the dangerous of mineral oil submersion is the high heat capacity means an undercooled system can take hours to heat up. You might think you have enough cooling, leave your PC on for a while, and come back to an overheated system. This means if all you want is a neat youtube video, you don't really need any cooling at all - but if you want to have a working PC for longer than a youtube video you're going to need active cooling. And if you follow one of those cool youtube videos, you may not find out until you've damaged something. |
| RGB255_0_0:
With thermal protection systems on every piece of hardware you'd be hard pressed to damage hardware even deliberately. With enough radiator space you can have as near silence as background hum without putting 3KG of copper and aluminium hung from the motherboard. |
| R005T3r:
Man There is no point in making a mineral oil submerged pc. First of all, you have to get rid of the heat, not rely on thermal mass to cool it, otherwise you won't cool anything, it just heats up. Second, if you use mineral oil in an aquarium or something else, what will happen if your tank breaks? Cleaning it is impossible. Third, Have you ever considered what happens if something malfunction and a fire starts? Tell you this because you are playing with electricity and a flammable fluid. 1 square meter of water is about 1 ton. 1 square meter of oil would also be more or less 1 Ton. So, weight is something to consider. Also, another issue, are the fans: fans are made to work on air not oil so your fans are likely to beak up. |
| calexanian:
+1 for total waste of time. If this is such an issue just buy one of the water cooling systems. |
| james_s:
Agreed completely that it's a waste of time, but an aquarium that size is not going to be tremendously heavy, not light but it's nowhere near a cubic meter, which I assume is what you meant because a square meter of oil could be a tiny quantity as the thickness is not defined. The flammability is possibly a valid concern, although I think the chances of a malfunction starting a fire are minimal at the power levels involved. You can throw a match into a bucket of oil and it will just go out. |
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