multiple questions!

[MikeMurphy]

I am running lots of fans and was intrigued by a post I read about submerging the mobo in non-conductive oil. My questions are,

-Are there really any downsides to this beyond ghetto appearance?
-Would fans still flow the oil, beit slowly?
-Does the oil ever need to be replaced?
-If I were to place the sealed container with well-cut and buffered cable holes near a window (sealed around the cable), would a slight about on condensation mixed in with the oil cause problems?
-Is it not technically possible to dump the PSU in the oil too?
-I understand most hard drives to be sealed, would they work within the oil too? Obviously no big gains here, but for simplicity sake.

And a totally random other question,

-Is more volts to the ram always a good thing? I see ddr boosters and such, and my A8N-SLI board comes nowhere close to that, obviously. Providing I have proper cooling on the memory, do I just up the volts to the max?


Thanks for your time :)

[mcnbns]

Most RAM benefits from having the voltage raised but some does not. For example, TCCD is happy to run at 2.6-2.8V to find its maximum frequency, but BH-5 needs 3.3V+ to do anything impressive. If you have a couple fans blowing on your RAM and don't give it more than 3.3V there's no way you can hurt it.

I would guess that your fans would not move if submerged in a liquid of similar viscosity to water. Also, you would need some way to cool the oil. Putting it near an open window and hoping that the cool air will disipate 200+ watts of heat from CPU, vid card, etc. is probably not the best thing to do.

Submersion cooling has been tried before, but it is too expensive and inconvenient for most people to do anything serious with it. :/

[MikeMurphy]

What is so expensive about it? I see, rubbermaid container, the oil itself, some gromet things, and a system to cool the oil. Its about -20c outside so I think that would work pretty well, if not, I can run a few of those bubble things from the outside air which should cool down the liquid, otherwise, MANY other far better options! I could even run a cheap pump that would dump the liquid at the top of a radiator, only to trickle down and drop back onto the cpu or something.

Can anyone confirm that the fans would not work? When I apply resistance to the fan with my finger, it suggests to me that it would move a liquid similar to water.

[Crankster]

The fans won't work. Atleast not for long, you have to go something akin to watercooling, Rad and stuff. Otherwise it won't work, something to rotate the fluid aswell.
The watercooling pump for example.

[metro.cl]

i think fans could work it just dependes on viscosity, you could make a circuit with a pump a radiator autside the house so the oil could get cold enough.

just give it a try, i think the psu could work i mean is the same as submergin the power cables on the oil.

if you can keep the oil around 0ºC you dont need any fans moving if you get a pump to move the oil. just some nice hs.

windbond type of ram love voltage, tccd hates it (newer revisions seem to like it more)

downsides:

some parts of the mobo that like heat, like mosfets thay are made to work hot