IT Peeps . . . wanna go??

[Patch]

this is pretty cool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok) - no pun intended

so who is game to donate their hardware?? :blip:

[PirateJafa]

You have to change the oil regularly and it makes swapping parts more of a pain in the arse.

If you really want to see one visit Playtech in Albany.

To be honest, liquid nitrogen is a far more impressive method of cooling!

[inlinefour]

Its different and kind of cool but it does not do it for me, although I do have a spare computer and more in storage until we move into the new pad thats being built. I must admit that the liquid nitrogen looks cool. But for now Im lazy and will just settle of extra fans as long as they have lcds...:(

[Mikkel]

As cool as it looks, I don't think that would improve cooling at all. You need a pump and cooler system to circulate the oil if you don't want that system to overheat... eventually.

If you cool the oil too much (< 0 degrees) you'll start to get problems with ice forming on your hardware... Not good.

[scracha]

It's as tacky as a PC with LED's all over the place. Most peeps want smaller computers, not larger. I'm also thinking it could end up as a huge chip pan fire.

I've just ordered up one of these for a sniff over 500 bucks to stick behind the telly. At 223×178×26 mm my Neuros OSD might be ending up on trademe.

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=2289&l1=24&l2=165&l3=0&l4=0

[Tank]

pfft - real IT men just have their kit in a climate controlled room.

Little asian boys have this crap.

[Lias]

Total immersion oil cooling is oldhat!

[pete376403]

Way back when Celerons (!) were considered something and overclocking was all the go, I saw an article about a Celery 300 (IIRC) that was totally immersed in freon (the whole mobo, everything) in a styofoam chillybin. It was overclocked to some phenomenal speed (for the day) and lasted maybe 10 minutes before cooking.
today, with cpu speeds what they are, why would you bother?

[Sanx]

One company, way back in the day, produced a dual Pentium Pro machine with liquid nitrogen cooling. The clocked the CPUs to something like 600MHz - quite a bit considering they were only ever designed to run at 200MHz. Incredibly fast for the day, but very expensive and very noisy.