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I saw something a while back about someone cooling a whole motherboard by just immersing the whole thing in mineral oil. They just filled a big tub/tank with the stuff and dropped the board in. Got fairly decent overclocking results IIRC.

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Must be a Blue Moon again.

this was done with a block, much like a water block. what happened was the oil circulated on its own without the need of a pump. some weird physics are involved. the heat exchanger is mounted to the case and the whole case acts like a heat sink. and as warm anything will rise over the cold same thing, you'd have oil circulation.

i read this about dentists lasers. they use the laser to get rid of schit on your teeth and apparently the damn thing gets extremely hot. the cooling device did a decent job at keeping the thing cool. i was thinking since it consists of only two parts and some tubing, why aren't we using it on our CPUs? no noise either. i wonder how expensive it is and if it is possible to implement it in the computer world.


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Certainly sounds a lot less messy and more sensible than the 'tub of oil' thing I was thinking of.

It would have to use some sort of convection - you'd need a very tough pump to pump oil instead of water, as it's so much thicker.

I've never known a dentist use a laser on me...

*mental image of big-ass laser in GoldFinger*
"Do you expect me to have clean teeth?"
"Noooo, mister bond, I expect you to die!"

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I was reading at OC forums and they are saying that it has been used but not too effectively. At least they don't put a lot of stock in it.

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as far as i know, all oils are non conductive in their pure form. now if you look at the atomic number on the periodic table and the last digit is 3 or less, its not conductive. if its 4, it is semi conductive. if its 5 or more, that indicates a good number of electrons and means its conductive.

but all that is changed when there are impurities in the oil.


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maybe you got to turn the red down on your monitor?

the screen name is copper and the sig is orange. like a penny copper.

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Got some info for you. Just ran this by one of the top Unix programers in the world "In other words this guy knows what he is talking about". He said that you could do the same thing with motor oil but the mineral oil is clear so it would probably be a better idea. He also said that it is not conductive, so it would be perfectly safe. In fact he was under the impression that I was about to try this, so he told me to keep in mind that one downside would be that you would have one big mess if you needed to work on anything. I

Hey guys I think that I may give this a shot. I have a pile of old computers lying around. They only collect dust! Give me some suggestions on reliable temp monitoring software and/or methods.

Hold on! First of all I didnt say that motor oil would do a better job, I said that you could do the same thing with it"meaning that you could use motor oil". I thought you wanted some input on the subject. Neither one of us were even thinking about which one would cool the best. We were just talking about the concept. Wasnt that what you wanted input on. As for the molecule thing, I can assure you it was me that was mistaken not him. This man made a perfect score on the ACT, and that doesnt compare to the fact that he has degrees in Computer science, Mathmatics, and Nuclear Physics. If I need to be more technical I will try and do better from now on- for a given millimeter of water or oil there isnt much difference in the number of molecules. You are correct about water molecules being smaller, but water will conduct electricity a little to well to sink a MOBO in it. So you would need deionized water to make it work(in theory). I was just trying to add to your information about the subject. As far as me being wrong, I will take this as a chance to state for the record that I am wrong all the time. As for my friend and his advice, I will take his advice and knowledge base any day of the week.

You couldnt have planned that one any better, I jerked one out this morning that reinvented the definition of embedded. Maybe you are the devil!

i hope you cried!

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i laugh at you!!!

HAR HAR HAR

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Another interesting tidbit. Some transformers are filled with liquid of some type. They have no circulation that I am aware of, and many not only have extreme heat build up on the inside, but have the sun baking them from the outside.