RE: [OT] Extreme liquid cooling for your PC

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> That one's pretty tame.  There was one a couple of years ago
> done by a guy who worked at Wal-Mart.  He dunked his PC in
> the oil, and used a fridge compressor to cool it.  The idea
> was super-cooling to get it overclocked.
> The oil was pumped over the cooling elements, and then
> dripped into the oil pool.  He tried it and it worked well.
> He went to work, and on his return found his PC was broken.
> The cooling element had covered itself in ice.  A block of
> ice fell off into the motherboard bath.  It melted.  The PC
> shorted out.  Whoops!  The thing is, once you've cooled the
> PC with the oil, you still have to cool the oil.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
> --
> http://www.andylaurence.co.uk

There's also some stuff made by 3M called Flourinert (at least I think they
still make it) - about 10 years ago I managed to blag 5 litres or so of it
and used it to liquid cool a couple of audio amplifiers that I had in my
car
at the time...

Phil