I've heard of watercooled computers but oil... never heard of one either. Sounds neat though.
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Actually, first I actually misread the title... "Oil cooked PC"
Just be sure not to submerge your HDDs in oil though
To add randomly to this one, a new "trick" I learned watching History Channel (I think). "Tin Whiskers". The completely natural phenomenon of tin pins to grow "whiskers" or, VERY small and thin growths of tin from the solid surface. They grow outwards an random angles and lengths, and, when they eventually contact other pins, form a conductive link and short out things that are not supposed to short (like the pins on a microprocessor)
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Pins on the CPUs are protected by the non-conductive plastic in the receiving plate. However all the pin-outs on the motherboard are not... if the solder used has enough of the properties of tin (as you stated) it might cause a problem. Of course knowing the exact makeup on the solder used in difficult but standard solder is Sn/Pb, and all solder contains Sn (Tin).
Don't submerge the optical drives too
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Any lead-free solder will splinter like that. That phenomenon has caused major problems all over the place, including on the Space Shuttle (woot for lead free solder!). Didn't I read somewhere that this was the primary reason for all the Xbox360 failures? They had to go lead-free to get the ok for sales in the EU, and it killed them.
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