What you guys want to look up is thermal conductivity. When I was looking up info for that post I remember looking at "oil" and noticing it had a high thermal conductivity or specific heat capacity value.. this would depend on the type of oil, and i'm not 100% which of the two it was.. I should have made note of it in the post.

Read this. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...965#post742965

This also ties in with the Zalman thread here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...302#post765302