Topic: Is this a great idea or is it stupid and been talked about before? (Read 973 times)

Quote from: schnebi on June 11, 2013, 12:00:17 AM

Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Oil does Not conduct electricity......

Learn something new everyday. Googled and confirmed!

Thanks, lol.

Now then... what would be the method of cooling the oil? Mostly what I'm seeing online just deals with engine oil, =/

I think, if you Put your rig in A large Oil tank of about 20 litres, the surface of the tank should be Huge enough to conduct the heat to the environment

Yup my thoughts too i have read that some servers farms do it and to good results http://www.geekosystem.com/mineral-oil-servers

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Nice! I can mine and cook fries at the same time! Cool

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Quote from: ranlo on June 10, 2013, 11:55:55 PM

Quote from: Rubberduckie on June 10, 2013, 11:58:30 PM

Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Oil does Not conduct electricity......

Learn something new everyday. Googled and confirmed!

Thanks, lol.

Now then... what would be the method of cooling the oil? Mostly what I'm seeing online just deals with engine oil, =/

I think, if you Put your rig in A large Oil tank of about 20 litres, the surface of the tank should be Huge enough to conduct the heat to the environment

Based on what the other posts say, a radiator or something be needed. Here's a quote from the top link dwdoc posted:

"A radiator will be absolutely crucial. Otherwise you will just be making a large fryolator to fry french fries in. "

I love it... fryolator.

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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1104341

i guess he did it for the lulz...but he did put a stove under it too

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- - -Caveat Aleo- - -

There's already a dozen threads discussing this including

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/submersing-a-rig-56596

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/immersion-cooling-32481

Here's my setup- I heard pool mining was the way to go...

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Quote from: ranlo on June 10, 2013, 11:55:55 PM

Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Oil does Not conduct electricity......

Learn something new everyday. Googled and confirmed!

Thanks, lol.

Now then... what would be the method of cooling the oil? Mostly what I'm seeing online just deals with engine oil, =/

I think, if you Put your rig in A large Oil tank of about 20 litres, the surface of the tank should be Huge enough to conduct the heat to the environment

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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1104341

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Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Oil does Not conduct electricity......

Learn something new everyday. Googled and confirmed!

Thanks, lol.

Now then... what would be the method of cooling the oil? Mostly what I'm seeing online just deals with engine oil, =/

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There's a post over @ hardforum where someone used an oil submerged rig to cook with

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Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Thats a crazy overclock and yer the condensation would be the scariest part but you can chuck a heap of those crystals that absorb moisture i guess
but i think if you dont let any of the parts touch the bottom of the tank you should be right cause i assume thats where the water will be but then again lol you
would have to keep the oil flowing around so there isnt hotspots so i have no clue how to combat that and is why i kinda made this thread im totally interested

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Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

Oil does Not conduct electricity......

ranlo

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Someone here did... I don't remember where the post was though. They have a lot of video cards in it.

I don't get how that works though. Is it using special oil?

you can use baby oil but not all oils because you dont want stuff to grow in it like it would in vegie oil

babie oil cost a bit but has to be cheaper then $30 a pop for a waterblock and the power needed to power it

and i would love to see a vid or a pic of someone with a serious rig in oil tanks it would be epic

i wonder how much power a small refrigerator element would cost to run in comparison

There was someone who posted on one of the OC'ing sites (I think overclockers.net or whatever it is) where they got a P4 CPU to over 13 GHZ using oil as the coolant.

But my confusion is... oil essentially is a liquid. How does it not fry the circuits? If we put even a little water on it the entire thing would be toast.

YacLives

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