"How To H2Ocool Your Power Supply"

[sladesurfer]

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1240/

[Cooper]

Nice.
But there is one guy who made it a lot earlier.
PowerMan 420W in custom case and under sunflower-seed oil.
Temp was ~65C under load.

[JamesBong420]

very clean looking .... i like the submerged fan hahahaha.....

[faith4]

omg, that it so awsome dude.

[freecableguy]

this isn't H2O cooling though....unless baby oil is now magically the same as water (ummm....H2O)

[Vapor]

49.1C under only a 125W load is incredibly bad....

[Demo]

It looks cool and scary to me,so mineral oil as aboslutely zero electrical conductivity regardless of time passing ?

[Stigma]

Baby oil huh? ... what exactly is it made of anyway? (babies?! =P). Seriously though, is it an organic oil or some sort of mineral oil?

Does it smell or deteriorate over time?

I'm wonmdering why various submerged system experiements have used cooking oil rather than this stuff, since cooking oil smells horrible after a while, and also looks really icky. isn't there a drawback to this stuff?

-Stigma

[DepTi]

Yeah, there's kind of a flaw in his reasoning. He states mineral oil has a higher conductivity of heat, yet he doesnt take into account that you can move air through a psu at a pretty good rate. You can only move around that mineral oil with a fan so much, and then all you have for the heat to go through is that little waterblock. Seems like a lot of trouble just for that.

[Praxis1452]

get a radiator and a pump... and do a regular h20 build except using mineral water... will work much better just that the pump has to be able to pump the mineral oil. Better than a little tiny copper block. Might as well just have got copper box put everything in mineral oil. and used the fan to circulate the water to heat up the copper. Then you have a passive solution. Got to add fins though and copper is expensive.

[chron]

wow dude that looks amazing. I've actually been thinking of building a very out of this world looking computer that almost touches on an artistic expression, I think I'll use this idea with the PSU looking submerged... Very trippy looking :P

[rusty959]

While I was suposed to be doing something else today... I got an idea... (yea, so it has been like a week since I saw this...) So, What about doing something like that in combination with something like.... this? That way, the high heat producers like the fets etc have a direct connection to a waterblock, and then the rest of the mods would be for the other lower heat producing objects that still need cooled?

[Revv23]

i guess its pretty cool looking but also a big waste of time with poor performance imo.

[rusty959]

But do you think my idea would bring preformance up to a good level?

[Clueless]

wow...cool idea really, I might have to give this a go(not just for performance reasons though, helps to keep my room cool during the summer and not to be so noisey).

[Clueless]

how much did this cost and how safe is it?

[Vengure]

Props for looks but poor performance

[Fr3ak]

Using oil works for cooling moderate hardware, but it starts smelling after a while, so you have to seel whatever you are using it in.
Then after a while the oil will come out of your devices connected to the pc. I never tried it myself, but I have seen several people who did.
Seems like the oil runs trough the cables somehow for some reason.

And in case you try it, dont submerge your HDD.

[dinos22]

omg, that it so awsome dude.

looks great

[dinos22]

LOL at babyoil shots

That's right - lots and lots of baby oil. I would suggest spreading around the "love" a little and purchasing a bottle at a time from several stores.

this guy's kind of lost it i think

[l3ored]

While I was suposed to be doing something else today... I got an idea... (yea, so it has been like a week since I saw this...) So, What about doing something like that in combination with something like.... this? That way, the high heat producers like the fets etc have a direct connection to a waterblock, and then the rest of the mods would be for the other lower heat producing objects that still need cooled?

yea... this is what i was expecting

[Snatch]

Whats a nonsense.

[Timmay]

uhhhh question or statement?

[TheJollyFellow]

I'm surprised more power supply manufacturers don't make more water-ready power supplies, I'd think the market would be pretty good if a company made the option available on a popular unit...

[Silvermirage]

Enermax had one water-ready power supply...or two if I remember correctly. 550 watt too.

Anyway, can someone please explain to me how that is water cooling?