Completely Silent PC Uses 8 Gallons Of Cooking Oil

Post by **primaltheory** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:08 pm

This looks neat

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/ ... _the_fans/

discuss.

Post by **Transient** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:34 pm

Reminds me of that non-conductive water someone posted a thread about a while back. I proposed the idea of using it as cooling for a system (seeing as how in a video that was linked, a guy dipped a notebook and a cell phone in it and they still worked fine). Unfortunately the stuff evaporate 45x faster than regular water, so even a sealed case would need to be refilled.

edit: Dry water! That's what is was called. It was something some guy thought up to replace conventional sprinkler systems in office buildings so files and computers aren't destroyed when they come on.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:51 pm

how very gay

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:56 pm

Things to do if you have no life.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:11 pm

hm. yeah. wonderful

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:28 pm

On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:44 pm

Doombrain wrote:On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

how quaint...

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:42 pm

Their isn't much resale value for the thing once you've finished with it, though.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:20 pm

the things people will think of eh?

Post by **farad** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:02 pm

Doombrain wrote:On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

...it's on a desk...

Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:34 pm

you could cook some french fries and chicken strips while playing q4. neat.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:57 am

Doombrain wrote:On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

It's funny how that case comes with a filter to keep out the dust, but they drill like 300 holes on each side to spell out their name.

Post by **Canis** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:34 am

Doombrain wrote:On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

You lie!!!

And, on the flip-side of what?

Post by **primaltheory** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:52 am

The case....

and dude, I might try that oil, sure your air cooled pc is nice, but I know for a fact that with this kind of temperature management, I could crack my p4 up to 4.5+ ghz no problem

Post by **Deji** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:31 am

I bet carrying that thing around (say, to a LAN) could be fun

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:32 pm

farad wrote:
Doombrain wrote:On the flip side, heres a PC in air.

...it's on a desk...

Technically that's a PC in a Antec Sonata

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:03 am

wonder if it would be better if you had a motorized "arm" stirring the vat of oil. + i would probably try synthetic motor-oil. I'd assume it would have better thermal qualities.

Post by **Psyche911** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:31 am

I'm assuming it dissipates some of the heat through evaporation of the oil once it heats up...right? I'm sure that's healthy to breathe.

Well, on the secon thought it's probably no worse than working in McDonalds.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:35 am

Psyche911 wrote:I'm assuming it dissipates some of the heat through evaporation of the oil once it heats up...right? I'm sure that's healthy to breathe.

Well, on the secon thought it's probably no worse than working in McDonalds.

good point... on that vein, wouldn't it be better to use a completely sealed metal case? that way the metal would sink the heat out of the oil into the air, and prevent evaporation.
A sealed case would at least stop your room from smelling like someone is always cooking french fries, and prevent the need to refil it periodically.

Ideally, you'd probably want an aquarium pump cycling the oil through a radiator. Like a water cooler with no block, and using the case as a resevoir... just puming the oil out of the case, through a rad and back into the case. hmm.... makes me wonder if they tried using radiator fluid.

Completely Silent PC Uses 8 Gallons Of Cooking Oil

Completely Silent PC Uses 8 Gallons Of Cooking Oil

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