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Liquid immersion cooling builds

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  • 05-07-2019 3:24pm
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    TheBoyConor
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    I know immersion cooling is used commercially for servers and the like but I have been looking at some cool youtubes of people building PCs cooled by immersing the MC, PSU and storage in a tank of mineral oil. Some of them are very creative and they do it like an aquarium with a "seabed" and divers and things in there.
    I even seen one where he did had the build running in the lower half of the tank in a dense "electronic liquiid" and then had a layer of water floating on top that had goldfish and everything swimming around!!

    Has anyone here every done an immersion build of any sort?

    Will regular computer components be ok to use in mineral oil?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_fvSQsJ1Q

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqku9z-Wesg


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    K.O.Kiki
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    Eh.
    Main problems with those builds is maintenance, cost & point.
    I.e. it takes a load of time & money to keep it clean, and most components are fine with air cooling anyway.


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    Shiminay
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    Whatever about the budget to do it, I don't think I'd have the balls to try :D


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    TheBoyConor
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    I'd love to give it a go. Even just a trial run with some old hardware that I could afford to fúck up if it went pear shaped.

    More about the experience than it having a point for me I guess.


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