Mineral oil computer

[alexpmcmurphy]

has anyone ever built one of these?

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

ive been meaning to for a while, collecting parts and researching, but yesterday my computer at the house finally went into full meltdown (bios, reboot, bios, reboot) and if I'm gonna be putting together a new computer i thought i might as well go with something like this. i use my computer as an HTPC, or you could say i use my tv as a monitor and this is suppose to be almost silent. does anyone have any experience with these?

 

[Mark_88]

First time I've seen them...thanks...only drawback I can see is swapping or upgrading parts...you have to dry everything off (or get wet doing the swap)...

Upside would be -- no dust bunnies...

Let us know if you proceed...

 

[88_Eddie]

interesting, never heard of that

 

[Doom's Day Custom]

LOL You Guys need to check out Overclockers.com

 

[AllanD]

What I can't figuire out why anyone would generate enough heat to worry about such things....

Unless they are doing the old "spending thousands to make an AMD system
out-perform the intel system they should've built in the first place"

And AMD's seem to always seem to run hot.

 

[alexpmcmurphy]

LOL You Guys need to check out Overclockers.com

any particular place we should be looking there?

 

[Jaymz9350]

any particular place we should be looking there?

The whole site is awesome if your into PC's. If you want to see crazy ways of cooling a PC check out the extreme cooling and benchmarking sections.

 

[alexpmcmurphy]

oh, i completely agree that site awsome, I've been surfing it the past couple of days at work, i just thought he was pointing to something specific like a review or something

 

[CHKNFKR]

Bit tech gave a mineral oil submerged pc a full review including their torture test a few years back. Iirc they tested out several different oils and posted up the results along side conventional cooling methods as well as a few other not so conventional methods.

 

[2813josh]

That's pretty damn cool.. I'd like to build a custom computer like that but I don't think I know enough about computers..hmm

 

[Hahnsb2]

I'll stick with water cooling.

 

[Jaymz9350]

It's really not at all practical or needed. It's a neat idea but other cooling methods will work as good or better without the mess.