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Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> Oh, we like digressions :-) |
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> I recall that sometimes last year, Tom's Hardware tested running a |
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> system without heat sink... but completely immersed in... cooking oil! |
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> They made a large acrylic container, poured in gallons of high-quality |
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> cooking oil, then proceeded to overclock the CPU and GPU to unholy |
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> frequencies... |
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> And, IIRC, Seymour Cray likes to use some inert fluoride-based coolant |
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> to dunk the components of his supercomputer machines. And he would |
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> even go to lengths to design a "coolant fountain" that's not only |
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> functional, but also decorative. |
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> > The only caveat, is to get a cooling system, that is made of robust, |
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> quality |
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> > components. Also, monitoring the temperature is important, and it'd be |
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> > nice to have a micro pressure transmitter, downstream of the pumping |
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> mechanism |
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> > to ensure no leaks by detecting tiny leaks BEFORE they happen (delta-P). |
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> That's the only qualms I have Re: water-coolant. I always an afraid of |
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> leaks. So, I always wimped out and use the thermal wick kind of |
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> almost, but not quite, somewhat similar to liquid coolant ;-) |
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> Rgds, |
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I seen on a show once that they use mineral oil when they put those |
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robots in deep water. You know, the ones that are remote controlled and |
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go VERY VERY deep. Anyway, they put mineral oil in it because it is not |
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conductive, transmits heat pretty well and it doesn't let the water |
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pressure crush the little robot. It can't crush it since it is full of |
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a liquid already. |
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If that is true, why not use mineral oil instead of water? I understand |
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that could mean a change in hoses and such but still, if they can make |
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hoses that can stand up to gas and other really nasty stuff then why not |
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mineral oil too? At least with that, if you get a leak it won't burn |
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out your mobo or whatever else it gets on. It would be messy tho. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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