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Mineral Oil PC
- Thread starter BobsHabit
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- Rootstown, OH
Hello Bob, welcome to the forums. 
Mineral oil and alternative cooling methods often get some interest around our crowd. It has some drawbacks, but it has a neat "cool" factor... Usually once people get familiar with the full details of running a mineral oil rig, they become less interested pretty quickly.
I ran a quick search, you can see the results here for thread titles that contain posts that mention mineral oil:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/search.php?do=process&query=mineral+oil
Some posts/threads I picked out of there for you, which share some details:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7093414&postcount=8
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=696090
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=683254
Usually these topics come up in the cooling, water cooling, or extreme cooling section of the site.
Mineral oil and alternative cooling methods often get some interest around our crowd. It has some drawbacks, but it has a neat "cool" factor... Usually once people get familiar with the full details of running a mineral oil rig, they become less interested pretty quickly.
I ran a quick search, you can see the results here for thread titles that contain posts that mention mineral oil:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/search.php?do=process&query=mineral+oil
Some posts/threads I picked out of there for you, which share some details:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7093414&postcount=8
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=696090
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=683254
Usually these topics come up in the cooling, water cooling, or extreme cooling section of the site.
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Ah yes G_L, I. M. O. G. sir, it might serve him better to have his post moved into the cooling section as you hint about his topic.
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It's fun, you can't put the hard drives in the liquid, and unless you mitigate the oil that weeps up wires etc, it's a mess. You also need to cool the mineral oil with a modified radiator setup with fans and a pump if you run it 24/7.
One store (still on the web was able to run the office PC all day, but if left on overnight, the liquid was too warm and the PC wouldn't boot, and it took a DAY to cool down. They didn't have a radiator to remove the heat.
Fun, but wayyy not practical.
One store (still on the web was able to run the office PC all day, but if left on overnight, the liquid was too warm and the PC wouldn't boot, and it took a DAY to cool down. They didn't have a radiator to remove the heat.
Fun, but wayyy not practical.
Seen it done before, but it is more 'cool' than 'practical'.
it is a ROYAL mess when you want to exchange hardware too.
Cooling wise, I will just say it gets the job done. Luckily these days, SSD can be placed in Mineral oil, so the old HDD problem actually solved itself. However, I will still consider it more pain than pleasure.
it is a ROYAL mess when you want to exchange hardware too.
Cooling wise, I will just say it gets the job done. Luckily these days, SSD can be placed in Mineral oil, so the old HDD problem actually solved itself. However, I will still consider it more pain than pleasure.
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- Houston, Texas
Agree with everyone, it's a huge mess.
I did it back in 2000 and wasn't impressed. Luckily submerged an old computer I didn't really care about.
It's hard to find a pump to use with it also since the liquid is fairly heavy.
Flourinert is something to look into. I'm not sure on the spelling, but it's like 500 bucks a gallon as of 10 years ago.
I did it back in 2000 and wasn't impressed. Luckily submerged an old computer I didn't really care about.
It's hard to find a pump to use with it also since the liquid is fairly heavy.
Flourinert is something to look into. I'm not sure on the spelling, but it's like 500 bucks a gallon as of 10 years ago.
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