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Geek Culture / Passive Immersion Cooling (some "do it yourself" fun)

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Proteus
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Posted: 1st May 2004 19:22 Edited at: 1st May 2004 19:41
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Hey all;

I’m an engineering student, the other day (during a field trip) I had this idea for pc cooling,�How about immersing the whole thing into a non conductive liquid? And then cooling it of with some sort of radiator �. Later the same day, after I got home, I started doing some research on the subject; found out that this had already been done for quite some time (…I felt dumb…),

Take a look at these extreme experiments:

http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/submersion/submersion8.html

http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/submersion2/submersion2.html


Flourinert info:
edit, hold on a sec, ok give up... Let me just say it's really expensive...



Anyway this would be way too expensive for me. How about oil?

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=01c0a2ecbd403df5db41d03a2d643aef&threadid=32859

Now that was an interesting thread…

I’m starting a small experiment this afternoon (within a few hours), just to check if the vegetal oil(low viscosity) I’m planning on using will work (by immersing a binary counter in it).
If it all works out as planned I’ll start designing an oil cooling system...

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Posted: 1st May 2004 19:41 Edited at: 1st May 2004 19:43
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Wow. Now that's what I call innovative. I love the commentary when the liquid nitrogen starts to be poured into the case...

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Posted: 1st May 2004 19:45
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Now that is way too cool

Those guys rock...but again LN2 is too expensive for the ordinary man...

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Posted: 1st May 2004 20:29
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So is HFE-7100. I saw schematics that required 4 gallens - about £600 worth.

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Posted: 2nd May 2004 00:06
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Gotta love this gem:
Quote: "OVERCLOCKED STRAIGHT TO 581MHZ"


Interesting link though! Thanks for sharing. I wonder how the fans can spin in that heavy liquid...

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Posted: 2nd May 2004 00:06 Edited at: 2nd May 2004 02:25
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Yeah, that's why i'm trying oil...

but this means I need a lager volume of liquid flowing into the "case", good thing is that I found some nice underwater pumps (aquarium pumps) that will work with oil...

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