Oil cooled computer?

When water is used to cool computers special care has to be taken to make sure there is no leaks (for obvious reasons).





Why not simply immerse the computer in oil with a pump and radiator system. There would be no need for component shielding.Oil cooled computer?
you can do that. we did this at my college. it works but oil corrodes plastic over time so you wont get lasting effects. we named the pc oily and overclocked the hell out of it and it still stayed nice and cool. but DO NOT put the power supply into the oil unless you want to die. lol it was so ghetto we submerged it in a plastic hamster cage :).





also you have to keep the oil pc away from all heat sources. keep it FAR away from the monitors. we noticed the oil started to get frothy after it was sitting next to the monitor and the temp went up so we moved it across the desk. now its been running strong for nearly a year.





we didnt use a pump or anything but we did put that little bubbler thing that people put in fish tanks to circulate the oil.Oil cooled computer?
If you buy what is already available you dont need to improvise; check the scythe ninja fanless cpu cooler, and put in an Antec P180 case with higher RPM exhaust fans, that way air is drawn from 2 120 mm fans
because people can be really dumb specially the smart ones :)
Why not, indeed? It's been done (see below).





Why is this not done routinely? I would guess that the main reason is it's messy -- imagine installing a new network card, or changing out a memory DIMM -- and it's heavy, and if you use vegetable oil like these folks did, it can go bad or attract bugs.





There HAVE been commercial liquid-cooled computers. The Cray-2 is probably the most famous. The entire guts of the Cray-2 were immersed in Flourinert(tm), a liquid flourocarbon similar to what's used in air conditioners. It was pumped to cooling columns and for sites that had them, was a popular stop in any tour.
something like this?