ghost55

HI, I'm new here.
anyway, I was thinking of building a submersion cooled pc that uses mineral oil and an old modified acu to cool the entire computer to subzero tempertures. I am intending to use a core i7920, 6gigs of ram, and an ati radoen 5870. any ideas? thanks!

imadude10

I've seen the immersion cooled computer someone mounted in a fishtank. That would be a good start. You need to plan how all the parts are going to go together. There are no kits AFAIK. I would personally get a cheap steel mobo tray to mount the mobo on then work from there. I don't know how you would get the AC to work as a fluid cooler.

I want to see this project realized

Vagrant Storm

For the price of just the mineral oil you could build a decent water cooling set up that would give you better temps and whole heck of a lot less mess. I certainly wouldn't so that to that $1000 worth of hardware :/

If you want to do it just for kicks; that's fine. Not much to it. Put the motherboard and or powersupply into a container of some type and just pour oil in. To get decent temps you will need at least 5 gallons or so...10 gallons to get good temps. I'd just throw that cooling the iol idea out. It won't work to well. Sort of like if I cooled the water in my loop, but turned my pump off. You will need near industrial strength pumps to move the oil to where it would actually have cool oil hitting the heat sinks.

don't immerse your hard drive though. Oils will eventually seep into it

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ghost55

The cooling system would be used to blow jets of really cold mineral oil on to the overclocked components such as the cpu, gpu, chipset, and ram.

EMP7Y

What are your plans on how to cool the mineral oil? Are we talking sub ambient?

Ideas to cool the oil:
360mm rad
car rad
bong
geo-thermal (if you're lookin' to drop some coin)
TEC (I have no idea how this stuff works but I know it gets real cold and I think that's what its called)

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ghost55

heck yeah.
for cooling, im going to use an old, modified air conditioning unit!

zipdogso

Why don't you people ever use the search button when you think you have something unique.... then you will see

a.) It is not unique there is nearly always someone who has done it before.
b.) get a quick lowdown on feasability
c.) get other peoples ideas on whether it is worth it.

Just the other day someone started a thread on this without searching first....

Without a very good system for removing heat from the oil it will just continue to rise in temp...your idea of jetting components with cold oil will be hard to do.

People tend to do this for science fairs etc to prove a point few keep it running for their main system.

Anthony360

how big is your "case" gonna be. small fish tank like the video or an aquarium.

ghost55

The case is going to be a modified full atx case. Or a large aquarium.