[jpetrach]

Off the wall question if I can find a way to seal my GPU in Acrylic. Can I run mineral oil through my water loop? using my CPU, RES, RAD as I do now just with the whole GPU incased in oil for cooling?

So could it work/ what is the heat transfer rate through a rad? or anyone ever attempted this?

 

[Bit_reaper]

Let me get this strait. You want to put the graphics card (and only the that) in an "acrylic box" so that the entire thing is swimming in oil and then circulate that oil through a rad to cool it?

Yeah I guess it could be done though I'm pretty sure no one has. Its possible to run oil through an rad using an of the shelf pump but its an inferior cooling liquid so you would't want to run it through any blocks like you would whit regular water cooling.

Actually sealing the card in acrylic would be near impossible though due to the PCI-E and display port in the back. What you could do is put the GPU on an PCI-E extension cable and just dip it down int to a oil bath cables and all just like you would dump in an entire PC.

 

[OcN13]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1301052/wired-servers-too-hot-intel-recommends-a-luxurious-oil-bath/0_100

Do it!!!

 

[Spotswood]

If the card will run fine on a long ribbon cable, you could "simply" remove the existing heatsink and submerge the entire card in a container of mineral oil. Cool the oil with a pump and radiator(s).

 

[jpetrach]

I think i just need to get past buying a card that is not reference. ie. Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4 gb. That and I like modding stuff. and i'm real board, the parts are not compatible.

It looks like this would not work for what i was hoping. running mineral oil seems like its never going to be the next step in PC gaming. and there are to many factors here.

sorry to the moderator you may delete this forum.

 

[NeoReaper]

Be careful, you have probably heard the horror stories with Oil cooling. Remember it Expands Under heat which can put pressure on the tank.

 

[NeverB4Seen]

Nice, glad to see I'm not the only one experimenting with this. Just built my mineral oil rig with my old computer parts and a $15 aquarium tank from PetCo. It's really fun to do but had a bad experience with the GPU... my comp kept turning off every 20 min for the first three times, then finally the fourth time a piece on the GPU fried and don't really know the cause. Removed it and the rig is running just fine. Looking for a new inexpensive GPU to try after my GeForce 9600 gso took a dump. Built the rig: 1. to see if it actually worked... and 2. because I want to overclock this thing!

if you need any help with where to get a pump, radiators, and mineral oil I did all my research and got it for fairly inexpensive

but now I'm on the lookout for a good overclocking GPU that I wont be sad if it fries...

 

[Twist86]

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Originally Posted by NeverB4Seen

Nice, glad to see I'm not the only one experimenting with this. Just built my mineral oil rig with my old computer parts and a $15 aquarium tank from PetCo. It's really fun to do but had a bad experience with the GPU... my comp kept turning off every 20 min for the first three times, then finally the fourth time a piece on the GPU fried and don't really know the cause. Removed it and the rig is running just fine. Looking for a new inexpensive GPU to try after my GeForce 9600 gso took a dump. Built the rig: 1. to see if it actually worked... and 2. because I want to overclock this thing!

if you need any help with where to get a pump, radiators, and mineral oil I did all my research and got it for fairly inexpensive

but now I'm on the lookout for a good overclocking GPU that I wont be sad if it fries...

Did you scrub the tank clean with distilled water? If not then you probably got unlucky and had a piece of mineral or trace metal stuck by the card and caused it to conduct and fry. This is just me taking a wild guess as most people wouldn't think "hey tap water will leave stuff behind after I dump it".

 

[NeverB4Seen]

I blew my tank out with very high pressured air. The best thing about mineral oil is that water and other things are more dense than it and it goes straight to the bottom and stays there. But I'm not ruling out what you said is prolly what happened...