Mineral Oil Submersive cooling or Traditional liquid cooling?

[RaV3N]

I have recently read about cooling the pc with mineral oil buy filling up a tank completely with it and motherboard and compenents inside. Is this better oppose to tradition liquid cooling with a radiator or even on equal in cooling performance?

 

[MattNo5ss]

Personally, I don't believe it would be worth the hassle. Submersive cooling is more for looks than anything else. A custom water cooling loop should cool much better as well.

 

[Devil_Dog]

I would go with a custom loop. Looks cool but that's about it IMO.

 

[EarthDog]

Personally, I don't believe it would be worth the hassle. Submersive cooling is more for looks than anything else. A custom water cooling loop should cool much better as well.

Absolutely. Its a giant mess I can imagine and not worth it. Also, nobody would want to buy oil soaked parts if you sell your old stuff.

 

[Devil_Dog]

Absolutely. Its a giant mess I can imagine and not worth it. Also, nobody would want to buy oil soaked parts if you sell your old stuff.

That and imagine if you had to RMA. Yuck. I'd hate to have to clean the parts either way.

 

[Conumdrum]

And you still need a pump and rad to cool the oil. It will get hot and shut down the PC. And takes forever to cool back down.

 

[Jezus53]

I would say it's more of a "look what I can do" thing rather than a "this is really efficient and easy to maintain" type thing. Basically, a lot of work for little, if any, gain.

 

[ispano]

Could look at this:

 

[accessoriesguy]

I remembering once on the tv they mentioned something about some government facility had a bunch of huge water pipes to cool their super computers. Would this be a better alternative since it can be applied directly onto the entire surface?

I mean yeah for regular computers it would be heavy and inconvenient, not to mention the extra wattage for the device to cool everything as well as keep everything mixing.

But in the extreme case of water cooling, could this be useful? or would it still be about the same as what we currently have?

 

[Mesto]

Check out Pudget Systems. They've made a complete kit that's performing great. Keeping two overclocked XEONS cool.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc.php

Check out the version 3, that's the one keeping the XEONs cool

 

[EarthDog]

Its not that it doesnt work, its that its not really practical.. again no chance for resale, or if something breaks, you think you can return a sloppy oily mess? No chance.

 

[Mesto]

afaik, you void all warranties when you submerge your hardware. But i'd consider doing it with an old rig, just to be able to say "I've got a fully submerged PC, and it works"

 

[Psycogeec]

no dust
pudget has come a long way with this , since last time i saw thier site.
I could clean up any of the parts that went in, but for myself i change things to often to want to deal with it. i guess its one reason why i dont want to work at McDs on the greace fryer its just messy.

 

[Bobnova]

It looks fantastic, but normal old boring water cooling will give you lower temps with less mess, fewer voided warranties, and less hassle.