cold = could

Posted at 1:25 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by rawr

woops, thanks rawr

Posted at 1:57 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by Caleb Kraft

specifically what about the top part is confusing?

they mounted the motherboard so all the ports are up top, to make it easy to plug things in.

Posted at 2:18 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by Man On Fire

That is so amazing. Seriously.

Posted at 2:45 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by mike

Ahhh so many ideas, so little resources…<.<

Posted at 3:59 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

Wow, $11k! Its definitely a nice system though, with triple SLI and SSD hard drives.

Thanks for the mention in the article. We’ll be announcing kits for sale in just a few days…so you can build it yourself for a lot less.

Posted at 4:48 pm on Oct 20th, 2008 by Jon Bach

yeah i saw an artical on home made vegetable oil cooled PC. me and my friends tried it the problem we had with it, you need a great seal to keep the oil in.

Posted at 1:07 am on Oct 21st, 2008 by jerell

I did a little research and it turned out that mineral oil’s vapor may cause harm to your lungs.

See http://www.cdc.gov/Niosh/pdfs/0472.pdf and http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m7700.htm
for reference. Some reports are even scarier but I can’t find them now.

Posted at 3:43 am on Oct 21st, 2008 by massimiliano

I’ve always wanted to set up a bunch of motherboards with overclocked procs with tons of ram and a pixie booting nic in a cluster. Then dunk everything into a slightly modified old freezer filled with diesel or some other oil. The idea for the freezer was to set it up so that it would still cool the oil but add bilge pumps or other cheap liquid pumps to circulate the oil.
I never did it because I couldn’t honestly justify having a cluster. I don’t think I’d ever need it.

Posted at 5:51 am on Oct 21st, 2008 by Trez

You should know they have filed a patent with some generic enough claims to cover any liquid submersion cooling (where a radiator is used to vent the heat from the system).

U.S. Patent No. 7,403,392: “A portable, self-contained liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices, including cooling heat-generating components in computer systems and other systems that use electronic, heat-generating components.”

The full patent text is available here: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7403392.html

Posted at 7:45 am on Oct 21st, 2008 by draeath

Wouldn’t the Mains power transformers be prior art? they have used transformers dunked in oil for years.

Posted at 10:59 am on Oct 21st, 2008 by matt

I saw something like this in the movie Sunshine only they were using a liquid refrigerant of some sort in a refrigerated room. I wonder if that could be done. The components were submerged and raised out of the coolant for repair.

Posted at 7:39 am on Oct 22nd, 2008 by kevin mcguigan

There’s one thing I don’t completely understand about this idea. Is there a cooling system for the oil? I understand that the oil is cooling everything and it’s moving around with a couple submerged fans, but how isn’t it turning into a nice vegetable oil and PC soup?

What I mean is this looks fully closed, meaning the oil would have to have some kind of radiator off of the back to keep it from heating up. Maybe I just don’t see it in the pic…

Posted at 3:00 pm on Oct 22nd, 2008 by icefox

@icefox:

If you open the article and take more than 5 seconds looking at it, you will notice that there are four fans and a radiator enclosed in once side of the case. The radiator is actually nearly the full size of the panel! As they state, this system is not quiet, but it much less noisy than an air-cooled system of the same ratings.

Posted at 6:10 pm on Oct 22nd, 2008 by draeath

anyone that would buy this is probably an overclocker. overclockers change components all the time. have fun doing that with this oily mess.

Posted at 8:39 am on Oct 24th, 2008 by djrussell

I wonder if I got somehow get one of these donated to my site? hmm…

Posted at 1:14 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by zypher

where I can buy this oil?

Posted at 12:51 pm on Jan 12th, 2009 by jorge