Veggie Oil cooling?!

[ellanky]

a while ago i saw some sites and videos about cooling your computer with vegatable oil... filling up a case with it.. for some reason this does not seem very logical to me. Is this true or not?

 

[Shane]

yes its true,Its doesnt conduct electricity so its fine

i personaly wouldnt do it though

 

[salman]

If you search back through the threads- a little while back somebody did it and posted photos and told us how it went etc.

 

[sniperchang]

Vegetable and mineral oils do not conduct electricity, so people have used them as coolants for electronic systems.

 

[salman]

http://www.computerforum.com/79259-oil-cooled-pc-pic-intensive.html

 

[The_Beast]

They are pretty cool but I wouldn't try it

 

[jmedina]

Me either. I would probably destroy it.

 

[xxamdxx]

would this make the components wear out quicker?

 

[lovely?]

nope. if anything it would make them last longer, because the oil cools everything, not just the cpu and video card.

 

[Vizy]

would this make the components wear out quicker?

nope. if anything it would make them last longer, because the oil cools everything, not just the cpu and video card.

like to add on something here:

also it would make it last longer because it is constant lubrication right there.

 

[lovely?]

like to add on something here:

also it would make it last longer because it is constant lubrication right there.

whats there to be lubed though? i was gonna say that too but i couldnt think of anything that needed to be lubed up.

 

[Shane]

whats there to be lubed though? i was gonna say that too but i couldnt think of anything that needed to be lubed up.

Well i noticed on some oil cooled rigs that they still have the the fans running on the cpu heatsink and on gfx cards so i suppose in a way it keeps that lubricated but i dont see how oil would help a fan at all because it would put alot of stress on it and probably die anyway.

 

[lovely?]

Well i noticed on some oil cooled rigs that they still have the the fans running on the cpu heatsink and on gfx cards so i suppose in a way it keeps that lubricated but i dont see how oil would help a fan at all because it would put alot of stress on it and probably die anyway.

yeah i heard fans in oil die really quickly, definitely not due to friction i'll tell you that much!

 

[Timo]

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/thermal-conductivity-d_429.html

The thermal conductivity of copper is about 2358.8 times higher then that of Olive Oil... There is no chance that even with good circulating oil you're going to beat an old fashioned watercooling system (water itself has about 5 times better thermal conductivity, the liquid they use for watercooling probably has more) or even a copper plate with suffecient heatpipes (or a good Peltier for that matter).

Although, if you build the case so it looks nice, install a good Oil pump (that makes hardly any noise) and put a copper plate and the heatpipes (without the fins of the heatsink) on the CPU... That would be awesome seeing Oil has a better thermal conductivity then air...

Now there is something I am going to try in the future (when I find a cheap 775 socket and a cheap cooler with heatpipes...)