Too cool to be True, Mineral Oil Submerged PC!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/0 [...] _the_fans/

edit: I see they gave the same link. The aquarium is a nice touch as is the submerged power supply. eSata is a nice way to handle the HDD issue, although I think a SSD approach would have been even cooler.

The should put the bubble bar under the Freezer 7 Pro and let it go up through the fins, or below the GPU and the Freezer 7.

Well, if mineral oil is good enough for cooling high power transformers I guess it's good enough for PCs. Mineral oil seems much more appropriate for cooling a pc then vegetable oil.

The oil makes such a freakin' mess of everything though, once a component if in there, it's in there. I would hate to have to clean that psu for use in different, non-submerged, computer. The only way I can think of doing it would be to unplug it, make sure all the caps are discharged, take the cover off, and submerge it in a bath tub full a water to get all the oil out. Drying it would be a nightmare, even a little leftover moisture could kill it.

Besides that, the temps sucked

Yeah obviously because the water was not circulating at all. Like bobloadmire said you could do some copper heatsink on the backside or like i said earlier and like it was said in the article you could run a simple loop in a radiator to keep the temps down.

The point is not for performance but for the look, you could if you wanted to submerged an your old computer that you don't mind cause you already have your new one for games. So when it came time to replace the parts in the tank you would just want to throw the old ones away cause they would be so outdated. An HTPC doesn't take much to run and could easily run off some old parts and just think of all the looks and questions you'll get when people ask if thats a PC in an Aquarium.