Hi, Logan!
I'm just wondering if you could use oil for cooling your pc. I have seen one way of doing it but I would want to know more ways of using oil as a coolant! Thanks coloncapitald
Fishtank full of baby oil, plop all of your non-moving parts in there. throw in a couple of fans for oil-flow, and boom, oil cooled PC.
Could even throw in a pump and res to cool the oil.
You had me at "Fishtank full of baby oil"
Had me at "Fishtank"
Anyways, here's Slick from the Linus Media Groups Oil cooled PC.
you have to be careful with the oil. 100% medical grade mineral oil would be the best to use.
be aware that oil had a heat conductance about 1/4 that of water. so it will not be better then water cooling. but you could cool all the components with it.
i was working on a project a few years ago with an oil filled case, that ran the oil though a cooling loop. never went though with it, as i was looking at using propaline glycol, and it was a tad bit too conductive.
You can forget about upgrading it, as well. Once a part has been under oil, its near impossible to clean it out.
Thanks, bro. But would it be better with synthetic oil? I know synthetic is pricier but would it be?
I know it takes weeks for it to just drip dry the machine and it's dangerous to rinse it with water. But, I don't care about upgrading it for now.
Oil works, but it is terrible at heat transfer. Not just bad, but terrible. If you want a fully submerged cooling solution, I would look into an alternate coolant to use, such as the machine coolant products from 3M (not the pumps, filters, etc., just the coolant itself).
3M? Sorry, but I don't remember any company that is named that in my country yet. :/