Cooling with Cooking Oil

[GingerNinja.net]

Don't know how many of you have seen this over at Tom's Hardware, but how about silent performance computing with that chip-shop ambiance.



Some people have too much spare time...and cooking oil.

[XA04]

That is insane.



Well at least if you get hungry you don't have to wait for the deep fat frier to warm up.

[5lab]

wouldnt it solidify if you left it there (turned off) too long, thus not give optimum cooling for aages?

[Kezzer]

This is ancient, they did stuff like this years ago

[Lee H]

It's not ideal though really chaps.

That oil would still go off and start breeding germs & bacteria at a steady rate.

Now, add this to the fact the oil would probably penitrate the motherboard itself and start going "funky" thus meaning in about 3 months the system would be pongy indeed.

You'd be better off using a silicon based oil as these would not mould over time like chip-pan oil would

[Trippledence]

What about hemp oil, thats interesting. And has more omega 3 than fish...

5lab, oil doesnt set as far as i know, it only does so in the pan becuase of the fat from what you have been cooking is mixed with it.

[jimborae]

It's not ideal though really chaps.

That oil would still go off and start breeding germs & bacteria at a steady rate.

Now, add this to the fact the oil would probably penitrate the motherboard itself and start going "funky" thus meaning in about 3 months the system would be pongy indeed.

You'd be better off using a silicon based oil as these would not mould over time like chip-pan oil would

As it says in the article, motor oil would probably be best.

Castrol GTX anyone??

[autopilot]

As it says in the article, motor oil would probably be best.

Castrol GTX anyone??

Been done. I saw a PC completely submerged in a motor oil filed bath once on the net (or magazine) somewhere.