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Windows 7: Computers Submerged in Oil
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08 Sep 2012
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#1 | |
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601 Italy |
Computers Submerged in Oil
This is something I stumbled upon some months ago, and while I'm not really planning to do it on my current rig, I'd like to know if something like that would make any sense or if it's better than water cooling (or standard air-cooling) somehow.
EDIT: sigh, noticed just now that there is another thread about oil bathing, here. Not that it has lots of posts, but maybe it's better to merge. | My System Specs |
| Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number custom built
OS Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3
Motherboard ASUS M4A78
Memory 4,00 GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Keyboard Microsoft, whatever.
Mouse Optical, logitec.
PSU whatever, around 450w
Case Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Hard Drives (1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
Internet Speed effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Antivirus Avira, free endition.
Browser Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome
Other Info Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
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08 Sep 2012
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#2 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Southern California |
To answer your question is yes and no. Is it better then water........it's totally different but uses a inert mineral oil to carry heat away from all applicable components. It has obvious drawbacks and advantages. For me it's sealed water till I can graduate into the big leagues of multi-loop water.
Here's oil done large...... Green Revolution Cooling | The Clear Solution For Data Center Cooling | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number A blend of brains, brawn and dumb luck, ask me about rig #2 !
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64
CPU i7 3770k OC'd 4.6 @ 1.17v, still love my FX 8120
Motherboard MSI P67A-GD80 b3
Memory 16 gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 9-9-9-27 @ 2000
Graphics Card XFX Radeon 7870
Sound Card On board HD audio with lossless 24 bit/192 sample rate
Monitor(s) Displays (2) LG LED 23" 1920 x 1080 2ms Monitors via mini d-port
Screen Resolution 1680 X 1050 p
Keyboard (2) Logitech Illuminated Keyboards (1) usb (1) wireless K800
Mouse Logitech G9x & T-BC21 - nano nx for the laptop
PSU Ultra X4 modular 1050 watt 80% silver rating & APC 1200 RS
Case CoolerMaster Storm Styker
Cooling 6 case fans 140mm & 120mm, Thermaltake h2o extreme
Hard Drives Samsung 256 gb 830 SSD sata III
(2) 1 tb Hitachi deskmates/sata II
(1) 1 tb WD green/sata II
(2) 2 tb WD My Book/esata
(1) 500 gb Sea. Freeagent/esata
(2) 250 gb Sea. Freeagent go's/usb
(1) WD 2 tb Green 64 sata III
(1) 120 gb OCZ Vertex SS
Internet Speed Upgraded from bottom of the barrel to bareable
Other Info 4 Noctua case fans + 3 Noctua in p/p on H100 cooler
Integrated hot swap drive bays for 2.5" Drives
(2) Lite-on dvd/cd optical 22X
Integrated fan controller and led on/off
HP Officejet Pro L7680 all-n-one
HP 4 laserjet (the beast)
Hot swappable 3.5" hard drive bay
Belkin Play N600 HD router
Asus USB 3 & sata 6 PCIe card
Vantec IDE to sata adptr./Ultra sata adptr
HP Probook i3 laptop
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08 Sep 2012
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#3 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit NC |
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
Memory GSkill 4 X 2 GB PC 8500
Graphics Card XFX Radeon HD 6790 D
Sound Card On board RealTek HD
Monitor(s) Displays Dual monitors:Samsung SyncMaster S20B300
Screen Resolution 1600 X 900
Keyboard Logitech G510
Mouse Razor DeathAdder
PSU Ultra X4 750 watt fully modular
Case Thermaltake Overseer RX 1 full tower
Cooling Core-Contact 92 mm CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda 1TB (primary)
Seagate Barracuda 2 X 320 GB
Internet Speed 50/5 Mbps UL/DL
Other Info Optical: Super Muliti DVD burner w/lightscribe, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800
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08 Sep 2012
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#4 | |
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601 Italy |
^ holy cow! whenever I find a few billion dollars of cash on the street I know where to invest the first 20k or so.
Their rigs can be customized way beyond bloody ridicolous overkill both stats and price-wise. I wonder if they manage to sell enough to stay afloat. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number custom built
OS Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3
Motherboard ASUS M4A78
Memory 4,00 GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Keyboard Microsoft, whatever.
Mouse Optical, logitec.
PSU whatever, around 450w
Case Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Hard Drives (1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
Internet Speed effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Antivirus Avira, free endition.
Browser Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome
Other Info Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
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08 Sep 2012
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#5 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit NC |
Quote: Originally Posted by bobafetthotmail  ^ holy cow! whenever I find a few billion dollars of cash on the street I know where to invest the first 20k or so.
Their rigs can be customized way beyond bloody ridicolous overkill both stats and price-wise. I wonder if they manage to sell enough to stay afloat.
I know....but if/when I get some free cash (never happen with 4 kids and a wife) I'll be getting one of those monsters, just to say I've got one.
I wish their site would put up some pictures of it and a video of it while in normal user mode and benching it.... | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4
Memory GSkill 4 X 2 GB PC 8500
Graphics Card XFX Radeon HD 6790 D
Sound Card On board RealTek HD
Monitor(s) Displays Dual monitors:Samsung SyncMaster S20B300
Screen Resolution 1600 X 900
Keyboard Logitech G510
Mouse Razor DeathAdder
PSU Ultra X4 750 watt fully modular
Case Thermaltake Overseer RX 1 full tower
Cooling Core-Contact 92 mm CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda 1TB (primary)
Seagate Barracuda 2 X 320 GB
Internet Speed 50/5 Mbps UL/DL
Other Info Optical: Super Muliti DVD burner w/lightscribe, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800
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08 Sep 2012
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#6 | |
Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 Rockville, Maryland USA |
FWIW:
The un-washed who decide to submerse their computer in oil are in for a shock if they don't do a lot of studying, or their fans won't work properly.
Rich | | My System Specs | | Computer type Laptop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Toshiba Laptop Qosimo X870
OS Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
CPU Intel Core I7
Motherboard Toshiba
Memory 16 Gigs
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
Monitor(s) Displays 17.7" laptop
Screen Resolution 1600 x 900
Hard Drives 256 Gig SanDisk SSD for C
256 Gig Intel SSD for D
Internet Speed 50/25 FIOS
Antivirus Vipre (all you can eat for 10 machines)
Browser IE and FF
Other Info I have dos 6.22, wfwg 3.11, win98, 2000 and xp VHD's available for testing. MS's Virtual PC works great.
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