Does anyone remember the mineral oil fishtank PC thing that was popular 10 years ago? I want to do that, but by simply dunking one of those mini PCs in a small fish bowl, installing a submersible oil pump, and running it to a fanless/passively cooled radiator. And of course short extensions for all the ports.Or I could even just ignore the pump altogether and have a large radiator simply partially submerged in the oil.In my mind this would offer the absolute perfect combination of small size and no noise while also having good temperatures. The main problem with the typical ITX oil PCs is that they are fucking heavy, with mineral oil being 8 lbs per gallon.Is this retarded? I am autistic and hate noise but like cool things like oil cooled PCs.
Why the hell would you keep the fans on?
>>106465038It's been a thing for over 20 years.>>106465052Moving the oil in addition to convection.
It would be cheaper and easier to just drill a hole in your wall to stick your cables through and put your PC in another roomMineral oil will permanently ruin your hardware. Not by damaging it, but you can’t resell or reuse it since it will forever be drenched in oil and you will never get all of it cleaned from the hardware. So keep that in mind>>106465052The oil lubricates the fan bearings and you still want the oil to move somewhat so you stick a few fans in and put them on low RPM
>>106465038i dont recall op
>>106465038Yeah, it is retarded. Don’t those PCs leak too?Buy a fish tank and some fish if you want an aquarium. Build a PC and add an AIO water cooler if you want good cooling temps.
this only works for low wattage components. back then gpus barely used 150w and people were running single cores/dual cores. but if you're buying low wattage components today, then you're buying a laptop or phone which makes way more sense than this.
>>106465038I remember hearing about it, but I never saw anyone do it IRL.I did see someone build a water cooler from motorcycle radiator parts before the era of AIOs and ready-made water cooling hardware. I also got to see a group of guys use liquid nitrogen to get a Pentium 3 to 3ghz back when reaching 1ghz was brand new
>>106465038nope
>>106465038It works and you wouldnt need a pump or radiator either way with a small pc. The main complaint is always the oil climbs cables and its a mess any time you want to swap parts. That and the oil isnt cheap.
>>106465038nigger plain oil is old news. An actual white guy made a version of this where the non-conductive liquid was vacuumed to near-boiling at room temp, thereby taking advantage of the phase change caused near heat sources. Worked much better and looked much more interesting
>>106465038>popularanon you're mistaking a funny youtube video for something people actually did
