submerging pc in liquid

[willaby]

I have heard stories of people who submerge their PCs in some kind of non-conducting liquid (maybe mineral oil? not sure, maybe not) and then supercool the liquid down. I don't know much about it, but it seems like a good concept, and so I wanted to know what people here thought of it or if anybody has heard more about it than me.

[MrPurple]

This concept has been around, and the biggest problem is finding a liqued that is 100% no-conductiong.
THese liquids exist but are extremely ex*****ve and there are problems with the enclosure.
So we are far from having supper cool PCs

[ArcticFox]

Basically, a phase-change system will be much less expensive, even though they are very pricey as it is.

[thePh@r@oh]

i would think that some form of oil would work cause its non polar so it should basically be nonconductive

[speedyvision]

it would work but it would stick to ur mobo and everything and be hard to get off

[VHockey86]

While in theory a non-conductive liquid would work.. I think it would be a huge risk. The liquid, I would think could still pick up ioned particles from the air that could potentially cause damage.

Might want to check out a Prometia Vaporphase system.

[John Prophet]

(dial up users, dont even bother with this site, lol)

kind of a lot of pics to wade thru

http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?cal...bmersion2.html
project deep freeze http://www.viperlair.com/articles/ho...m/ecm2_1.shtml

http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkeli...hwood2200/ln2/
4th pic down is cool here....looks like miniature Nuclear reactor

JP








JP

[jmichna]

Originally posted by VHockey86
While in theory a non-conductive liquid would work.. I think it would be a huge risk. The liquid, I would think could still pick up ioned particles from the air ....

Nope... doesn't happen. You may want to refresh your knowledge of high school/freshman inorganic chemistry.

[Gait_Keeper]

I saw that on the screensavers ( techtv ) some months ago

they used a AMD chip, and submerged, the motherboard

here

[Vagabond]

now thats cold what a great overclock LOL