Oil cooled PC

[RuneDragoon]

I've heard of watercooled computers but oil... never heard of one either. Sounds neat though.

[Balthizar]

I hope that's not /used/ transmission oil! The used stuff has metal filings in it.

One other thing you should be aware of is capillary action. If you submerge cables in the oil, expect the oil to work its way into the cable and creep along to the other end where it'll drip out and make a mess. The relative height of the ends doesn't matter. If it's a long term project, you should consider putting ports on top of the tank.

Thx u for the tips but I only using new clean oil

Thx you for the tip about capillary I have been already thinking long and hard on a fix for it

I used to be Electronic Tech in the U.S. Navy I know a thing or three about what will and will not conduct electrons.

[Spirit]

Cooking oil? Isn't that a serious fire risk potentially?

Rakku

[Ahael]

Actually, first I actually misread the title... "Oil cooked PC"

Just be sure not to submerge your HDDs in oil though

[walkerglassmire]

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)

[Nidhoggr]

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

[gopher65]

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.