how many fans are needed to cool 10 gallons of mineral oil

12k to dump it all in oil and make the parts useless to ever use again. Seems like the stupidest idea and most over priced build ever. 3 furyx for 1 4k screen.

Instead of potentially destroying $12,000 in parts in a first attempt at this mineral oil thing, why not practice with a $500 box.
Find all the pitfalls, problems, and uselessness on a cheap system first.

If you want to be a car painter, you don't practice your first attempt on a $200,000 Ferrari, do you?

Mineral oil is a terrible heat conduction medium, especially for cooling. There is a reason why cars are water cooled and not oil cooled - water has a much higher specific heat and thermal conductivity than oil.

From the watercooling sticky: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277130-29-read-first-watercooling-sticky

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277130-29-read-first-watercooling-sticky#3718878

Generalized Watercooling Theory


Watercooling is based on the set of principles that water is proportionally better than air to conduct heat away from a heat source based on conduction, or the direct contact of a heated source and a cooling source to transfer heat energy rather than convection, otherwise known as thermal conductivity. The ability of a substance to directly absorb heat energy is considered it's specific heat; in this case, the ability of heat directly absorbed by water and the required energy to raise overall temperatures by 1°C. While convection takes place with normal air coolers to provide the ability for air to absorb dissipated heat from the cooler, watercooling also employs this concept to some degree. Once the water absorbs heat energy via conduction from the blocks, it then transfers that through tubing to radiators cooled by fans. The difference is that a larger amount of heat energy is able to be absorbed and moved at any given time with a water loop due to pump flow forcing turbulent water through the radiator tubes while the radiator provides greater surface area to conduct heat energy from the water to the radiator and then into the air. The process is more efficient at transferring, displacing and dissipating excess heat energy based on the delta-T of the loop design. In short, the ability of water's excellent specific heat allow it to absorb heat much more quickly and efficiently from a source of heat (as well as also dissipating that heat back to a cooling source for dissipation) so it can also transport far more of that absorbed energy due to the thermal capacity of it as a medium away from heat sources to be expelled elsewhere.


Thermal Conductivity of Common Cooling Mediums (@~20°C; W/mK)
Higher values are better

Water...............................................0.610
Mineral Oil........................................0.162
Alcohol(Ethyl, Isopropyl, Buytl)...........0.161-0.200
Ethylene Glycol..................................0.258
Air...................................................0.0257


Specific Heat of Common Cooling Mediums (@~20°C;kJ/kg.K)
Higher values are better

Water...............................................4.19
Air...................................................1.00
Mineral Oil........................................1.67
Copper.............................................0.093
Ethylene glycol..................................2.36


There are a lot of discussions around mineral oil submersion cooling, and while this is a watercooling forum, it often gets brought up as a topic. That being said, here is a link to a maintained index of mineral oil discussions that either have originated in this forum or referenced as one of those discussions.

Mineral Oil Q/A Links

12k to dump it all in oil and make the parts useless to ever use again. Seems like the stupidest idea and most over priced build ever. 3 furyx for 1 4k screen.

Levolutioner, No Offense but your parts list looks more like a multiple choice wish list than an actual buy list as 4 480 rads is just absolutely not necessary and a lot to setup and configure when 1 radiator can do it all.

I don't even see a pump in all that list?

4 180mm cooling fans on a Watercool MO-RA3 radiator, which is normally the radiator of choice for this type setup.

The Watercool MO-RA3 is a 4 pass copper core radiator running round tubing and is excellent for the extra viscosity the oil has over water, it is pictured rear mounted to the aquarium in the link below, running 9 120mm cooling fans as the site linked was opened in 2007, since then the Watercool MO-RA3 has new fan mounting configurations and can be cooled with 4 180mm fans, which is a lot quieter.

The Watercool MO-RA3 also can be bought with stand foot attachments to completely stand independently on it's own.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php

What's the use going mineral oil cooling and running so many fans you cannot stay in the same room with all the fans running? (Think about that sir)

Puget used to recommend all the components, and sell them as well, but has been forced to stop that, you can click the buy tab and see for yourself.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Watercool+MO-RA3

The Watercool MO-RA3 can be cooled by either 4 180mm, 9 140mm, or 9 120mm cooling fans, or you can go with the Pro series and cool both sides, but for your needs cooling one side is all you'll need to do and as I've already said, the 4 180mm fans are much quieter.

The radiator you choose is very important so the pump you choose can do the job you want the round tube style not the flat tube style, pushing the thicker oil is going to add flow restriction so round tubing is best.

Good Luck, the rest of the choices are up to you.

@ Levolutioner, Thanks for the best solution and please recheck as I was editing the post when you responded as I added a direct buy suggestion list.