Mineral oil submerged computer

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/05/29 @ 11:00 am
Category Computers & Mobile

Puget Custom Computers made a nice mineral oil submerged computer -

Over the years, we have seen many projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom’s Hardware. We felt that by building a computer in an aquarium using clear mineral oil, that we would be able to accomplish a much more attractive results!

Mineral Oil Submerged Computer – [via] Link.

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4 Responses to Mineral oil submerged computer

jordan314 on May 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am said:

That’s really cool. It looks neat and the video is really well done. Props!

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tms10000 on May 29th, 2007 at 5:48 pm said:

Also mineral oil does not degrade as easily as vegetable oil…

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Lang on December 6th, 2007 at 12:52 pm said:

So I assume that mineral oil is completely non conductive, right? Wow, amazing. Keep that sealed tight and you probably NEVER have to clean our your MoBo.

Nice.

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Darrell on January 15th, 2012 at 3:08 am said:

I love your design and 1 upped it. I put 16 Terabytes of hard disk drives in oil also. Check out my video and blog.

http://oilsubmersionmediaserver.blogspot.com/

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