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Oil submersion cooling
Me and a couple of mates are going submerge a PC in Oil, would it be a good idea to have a outer tank filled with water.
Sorry about the poor pic. I am no artist.
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I think the oil takes up such a large volume that it wouldn't heat up enough where it would need water to cool it.
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You will probably want one of the two being cooled. If you could get the volume of the oil to be small enough, the water cooling would do the trick. If it is a pretty large volume, the water won't do much and you are better off cooling the oil.
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Any specs ? What are going to cool? I would not trust oil to cool some ultrahot cpu or gfx card, and you will have stock or aftermarket heat sinks, passive or active ?
BDW, now thanks to SSD you can have your HDDs in oil as well, and if you lose the disk drive and get a card reader or a wireless solution it will be completely immersed 
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this is more of a project, it will be a fairly old PC like a AMD Athlon XP 2000 which is in my loft.
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gold fish are going in the water thats why the waters going in.
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Does oil have good enough heat transfer properties? And since regardless of how light the oil is, it will still be a lot harder to force it to flow as rapidly as water.
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this is the sort of thing that i am looking at
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you would be much better off pumping the oil throuhg a rad rather than trying to cool it with the water.
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