I've seen those videos where people submerge an entire computer (except for the OD and HDD) in a baby oil filled aquarium for better cooling and/or lack of noise. Can this be done with an Xbox 360?
why would you want to do this? just liquid cool it... dropping stuff in cooking oil etc is just stupid!!
why would you want to do this? just liquid cool it... dropping stuff in cooking oil etc is just stupid!!
Fluorinert is sweet stuff, but crazy expensive last i checked. You really need something like FC-70 though, because Fluorinert has a super low boiling point.I have seen evidence to say quite the opposite. Those oil systems run quite hot most of the time. Once that oil gets warm it stays that way unless you have really strong pump and rad/fan combo. The only way I would ever do an aquarium setup is if I used flourinert from 3m. But it would have to be air tight because that stuff evaporates.
The OP said "Baby Oil", not cooking oil.
Besides, Mineral Oil is what's commonly used for these ridiculous setups.
There's quite a few. Just type "aquarium computer" or "mineral oil computer" into youtube.
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Cooking oil is made for chips(UK) or fries(other odd countries)
You guys think it will be more RROD-proof?
Fluorinert is sweet stuff, but crazy expensive last i checked. You really need something like FC-70 though, because Fluorinert has a super low boiling point.
If anything you would want some very thin oil, thinner than mineral oil even as well as it being clear, and you'd prolly still need an iwaki to move the oil...
No....the pump would go outside the case, attached to tubing inlets and outlets in the case, through a radiator, and back into the case. The oil would continue to get hotter until the xbox 360 overheated and shut down, or until it failed and shut down, as there would not be enough surface area in the case to effectively disipate the heat without a radiator of some sort.I thought the exposed surface area of the mineral oil would dissipate heat once the oil and the heat from the hardware were at an equilibrium...
And would you just put the pump randomly in the aquarium?