Would you buy a premix?

[cddetour]

What if a company made a premix that you could pour into your computer and it is good down to 0 F, don't harm seals, plastic, and metals, it's all been measured out and you don't need to add anything.

Would you buy it?

[johnnyis42]

it's been done, the product is called "flourinert" (not sure on the spelling)

a group in australia (search the web for "project submurdge") got a celleron 533 to clock up to almost 1.2 gigahertz. the thing about this stuff was that they cooled the liquid with dry ice because of the sublimation properties (it goes right from solid to gas without holding a liquid form, thus never mixing with the liquid and thus never creating the possibility of electrical conductivity and shorting out the motherboard or other components)

in this case they had to place all the solid state components in a container while all the mechanical components (drives) had to be outside the container. a styrafoam cooler was able to handle the job of the container while the drives sat on its edge with the wiring running into the liquid and to the board.

i suppose packaging this is plauseable, but other methods for keeping the liquid cool would have to be thought up since the dry ice doesn't last very long in warm liquid, and having no cooling system for the liquid would be worse than having no cooling on the board at all since the liquid makes more of an insulator than standing air (at least the hot air will rise out of an open case, whereas the liquid would go nowhere, and possibly boil.

from what i read, the stuff is pretty expensive as well.