For the extreme overclockers amongst us

[SuperSparks]

Build your next screamer in an aquarium:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32959

[judge john]

i think i'll stick to my fan for now

[Undertaker02]

The price has come to with in range of the "Normal" person..

You wouldnt need to much to keep even the beastiest PC covered.. what <5gals?

2 things..

DOesnt say how the Fans/bearings will fair in the liquid..

and.. It wont be long and it will be cheaper to cool your computer with this stuff than to put fuel in your car

[SuperSparks]

and.. It wont be long and it will be cheaper to cool your computer with this stuff than to put fuel in your car

LOL, that's very true


I presume you wouldn't need any fans as the liquid itself does all the cooling.

[bistro]

400 bucks a gallon? Shoot....I'll just run right out and get me 3 or 4 gallons of the stuff....I can hold off my mortgage payment for awhile I guess....and my car payment....and my bills...and...

One thing about immersion overclocking....it can get awful messy doing upgrades.

I have also noticed in the past that it can be problematic lugging a 15-galllon aquarium to a LAN party.

[Dude111]

Quite interesting!!

What would happen if you stuck your hand in the water,etc when the computer was on?? (I reckon you would get a shock)

Frankly i dont know how stuff runs IN LIQUID!!

[photolady]

Dude, this thread is two years old. LOL

[MPTech]

2 years old?? I saw something similar done about 7 or 8 years ago, but without the fancy fluid. Shoot, I'm trying to remember what they used, but it was an everyday houshold item (and WAY cheaper).
I want to say it was some kind of thin oil, but it's not coming to me right now.

I thought it was REALLY cool at the time though!

[Train]

Mineral oil
They also use it un transformers.

[prouton]

I believe you can use distilled water, so long as everything has been cleaned within an inch of its life. Pure H2O doesn't conduct electricity, but just a smidgen of salt (like from your skin) changes that.

[MPTech]

Yep, that was it Mineral Oil.

Interesting experiment (and a lot cheaper than this stuff!)

[Train]

Of coarse you can do like they do at arisibo [ may have spelled it wrong] and have the electronics in liquid helium. That should cool things properly.

[MPTech]

I think someone should build one of these and put it in the waiting room of a Doctors office! I'd sit and watch it for hours!!

[Train]

-90C

[bistro]

I just tried a new medium for my extreme overclocking. I immersed the whole friggin' thing in some surplus maple syrup I got last winter in Vermont. It's kind of messy, but I get some really schweet overclocking....

Thank you...thank you....I'll be here all night...be sure to tip your waitress...