Building a Mineral Oil Cooled PC

A fully functional Computer submerged and running in a custom Oil-Cooled Tank. Submerging the computer in oil immediately lowered the temperatures 20C! . View the photo gallery and ask questions at ultimatecomputers.net.

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[eagletwo13]

uhm would distilled water also work?

[sciguy14]

@eagletwo13 at first, but it would eventually begin to ionize.

[sciguy14]

@Doctathunder yeah it still works, but I would need to add some new oil... some has dissipated. This is what you do when you're drunk?

[CrayzyFreakzzz123]

why did you use silicone on the cpu?

[newyoukmets1]

kool suff

[somerville00]

@AirSoftMaverick3232 the silicon was unnecessary and thermal paste is non conductive so it can be in the oil. I also would like to know about the optical drive and HDD what is cooling them?

[Bateman1983]

I like a lot, thaks. Very useful.

[Bgunns567]

I found the video to be very helpful and very well done.I'm about to start a similar project involving an Intel 2600K ,16gb of ram, and (2) GTX580 3gb's in a 16gal tank/with oil cooler. My question is this...did you also seal any capacitors on your video card(s)? What kind of longevity did you see from your components over the last 4yrs? Anything you would change in how you prepped components/parts for the job? Any upgrades done over the last 4 yrs,and why?

[MrFR0ST95]

@eagletwo13 If it is in an air-free tank that is completely closed, but this would be hard to do. And every time you'd have to open it, it'd be better to change the water to prevent it from ionizing and later a shortcut or some messed up thing like that

[iRant4u]

I have a few questions: How difficult is it to replace or upgrade a part when it is like this? It seems like it wouldn't be easy to just pull one out and put another in... would you have to drain and refill the tank? What way would you have of reducing the heat of the oil? I've seen other videos that have radiators and fans for cooling the oil, and at high performance the temp gets to around 60 degrees F. I want to build one of these later, just some thoughts. Thanks!

[eagletwo13]

@sciguy14 wait i got myself confused... the distilled water will ionize... meaning Oxygen and Hydrogen separating and making it conductive?