Pc oil cooling debate

[vince-95]

Hello,i was having a debate with a friend about which is mineral oil pc cooling like air cooling or water cooling? what are your thoughts on the mater?

 

[nekulturny]

If you're talking about submerged PC's, I would strongly advise against it. Its not really that effective (or necessary for that matter), it voids the warranty on every single component, and they're difficult to maintain, cumbersome to relocate (its a friggin fishtank for crying out loud) and a nasty mess to work on if you have to swap a part or troubleshoot.

I guess the trade off, is,, it does look pretty cool, but its not something I would do with high dollar parts.

 

[cmcghee358]

It's liquid cooling to answer your question. Just rather than a seal liquid system, all components are exposed to the liquid. Pretty simple.

 

[unksol]

I wouldn't say its like either though. heck water cooling is closer to air cooling than it is to oil cooling.

Air and water both move heat away from the components and out of the case, and both do it with air/fans.

oil cooling just let's the heat build up in the case

 

[cmcghee358]

But the key is, water cooling uses a liquid to dissipate the heat more quickly. Oil cooling is doing that, but rather than blowing off the heat through a radiator it is simply using the sheer mass of the amount of oil to offset the heat and allow it to rise naturally.

Once again the only difference is that it isn't a sealed system. The advantage of it being that every single component gains benefit from it

 

[nekulturny]

It's liquid cooling to answer your question. Just rather than a seal liquid system, all components are exposed to the liquid. Pretty simple.

I actually had trouble understand what he was asking, must have just of been me. :lol:

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Oil cooling is doing that, but rather than blowing off the heat through a radiator it is simply using the sheer mass of the amount of oil to offset the heat and allow it to rise naturally.

Oil cooling also uses radiators

http://www.pugetsystems.com/aquarium_computer/V2/both_module.php

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

The mineral oil is pumped through a radiator to dissipate the heat into the ambient air.

 

[s3anister]

I strongly recommend reading this Tom's Hardware article where they used an open liquid cooling system (oil) to cool all components except for the PSU and HDD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/strip-fans,1203.html

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