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Hey guys,
i plan to build a new pc. I think about a pc that is watercooled and submerged in mineral Oil.
Like a watercooled pc in a Oilaquarium.
The mineral oil and the water geting a loop and a pump to cooldown in a refrigerator and 2 radiators cooled with air. My question: Makes this any sence or is this just way over the top? I think it would look very nice but will it cool optimal? will the water heat up while flowing trouth the Oil and overheat the system?
Sry for my bad english I tried my best :)
 
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manofchalk
Oil Cooling in general doesn't make sense from a practical perspective unless your talking chilled warehouses full of servers kind of-scale. Its much more a "I want to do it" kind of thing, same with water-cooling actually :D.

Performance wise you should get the same(ish) temperatures on the parts that are water-cooled as you would in a conventional water-loop. The oil cooled parts though will suffer, you need to cool down that oil as well. The most typical way is pretty much to pump the oil through a rad.
That being said, since the heat of the CPU and GPU (this will definitely have to be under water, a gaming GPU just makes too much heat for oil to deal with) is removed from the oil, it will heat up far slower than in a typical oil...
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Oil Cooling in general doesn't make sense from a practical perspective unless your talking chilled warehouses full of servers kind of-scale. Its much more a "I want to do it" kind of thing, same with water-cooling actually :D.

Performance wise you should get the same(ish) temperatures on the parts that are water-cooled as you would in a conventional water-loop. The oil cooled parts though will suffer, you need to cool down that oil as well. The most typical way is pretty much to pump the oil through a rad.
That being said, since the heat of the CPU and GPU (this will definitely have to be under water, a gaming GPU just makes too much heat for oil to deal with) is removed from the oil, it will heat up far slower than in a typical oil rig. Its possible depending on the size and shape of your container you can get away with the oil just passive cooling for moderate periods of time.
 
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Problems that will occur:

-A soon dead refrigerator. They are not made for a constant heat source inside the box. The compressor and motor will die.
-capillary action causing the oil to seep through whatever cables venture outside of the tank
-zero change in component temperatures.
-a smaller bank account
-an unmovable fishtank size thing of mineral oil, with unreusable PC components inside

Benefits?
-It probably won't cool the components any worse than a standard air or AIO water cooler
 
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