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Altanore · 01-22-2006, 07:57 AM

After seeing all these oil cooled computers, i'm thinking of trying it out for the fun of it. Show it off to my relatives and friends. I have an old pentium 1 compaq pc in a box collecting dust and thinking of trying it on that. If something goes wrong, well, not a big loss.

Anyway, I'm just wondering if theres anything special I need to do? Can I just buy some vegetable oil from the store, poor it in a fish tank or something and dump the motherboard etc in and it will work? I know not to put the hard drive and CD rom in. Power supply im not too sure if I want to put in.

If all works well, I probably will buff it up a bit with LED fans to move the oil around and lights etc.

Thanks in advance.

01-22-2006, 07:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Altanore Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Age: 20 Posts: 255	Oil Computer, for those who know a bit about it. After seeing all these oil cooled computers, i'm thinking of trying it out for the fun of it. Show it off to my relatives and friends. I have an old pentium 1 compaq pc in a box collecting dust and thinking of trying it on that. If something goes wrong, well, not a big loss. Anyway, I'm just wondering if theres anything special I need to do? Can I just buy some vegetable oil from the store, poor it in a fish tank or something and dump the motherboard etc in and it will work? I know not to put the hard drive and CD rom in. Power supply im not too sure if I want to put in. If all works well, I probably will buff it up a bit with LED fans to move the oil around and lights etc. Thanks in advance. __________________ Processor: AMD Athlon64 3200+ S939 Ram: 2x 1GB PC3200 Corsair DDR @dual Channel Video Card: PCI express ATI Radeon X800XL 256mb DDR3 Overclocked Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Drive: LG 16x16 DL DVD±RW w/Light Scribe Hard Drive: Western Digital Sata 120GB 7200rpm, 2x Seagate 320GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA II, WD 150GB Raptor 10k RPM, SATA, 250GB Lacie External HD Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Power Supply: Enermax 535W FMA2 Cooling: Many fans, Thermaltake Bigwater SE.