submerged system board

[Rickswny]

I have a crazy question. I am thinking of putting my system board in non conductive liquid and pumping the coolant thru a refrigerator. Is this nuts and will I kill my motherboard. I have the gigabyte k8nxp and amd fx 55 processor etc.., Two video cards with 4 gigs of ram the rest will be on the other side of the plexiglass case i am making and will be dry. I need thoughts on this please. Thanks, Rick S.

[bluegreenshxt]

Some stuff aren't supposed to run too cold. And plan carefully about the fans and heatsinks. The fans might not run under those conditions. I would try it out with something less expensive first.

[Rickswny]

there would be no fans on that part no moving parts at all the HDD and the rest would be seperate from the system board. I have been looking it looks like i will use flourinert or some similar material. And the temps will not be freezing just the coolant will be run thru the refrigerator.

[yahooadam]

that stuff may not be corrosive to metal (like copper or AL) but it might completly f-ck up your mobo anyway

and how non-conductive is it :p

[Skorp]

Its not uncommon for people to submerge their kit in vegetable oil. :rolleyes:

[yahooadam]

Its not uncommon for people to submerge their kit in vegetable oil. :rolleyes:
aye thats been done b4

although apparently its not that good cos the oil will lose its thermal capacity after time

[omga14]

there is a liquid that has dialectric properties that some guy over at xtremesystems was playing with for a little. maintains it's nature up to -100C i think. probably expensive though.

just keep your hdd's and opticals outside and the rest submerged. thing is you'll have to find a way to cool the liquid to keep everything happy. also finding out if any of your components have a "cold bug".

[Rickswny]

I am working on the case now the system board will be submerged on one end in a tank. The rest will be one the other side and not submerged I am researching fluids now. I will post pics as it goes along. I figure I will circulate the liquid thru a refrigerator set up of some sort to cool it to just above freezing if the cards and such can take it.

[Rudegar]

last time i saw it don was way back in the slot days
i doubt it would work for long myself
cpu's need more direct cooling now
and many capacitors take damage from fluid over time
dont get my started on hd's and optical drives ;)

[airborns_pilot]

It can be done but as stated i dont think its worth the risk. Although it does sound like lots of fun, can i come and watch.

[BAM!]

i remember seeing a review a while back ( 3 years maybe) of someone attemping exactly the same thing. sure, it can be done, but is it worth it?... no. first of all, like Omga said... that liquid ended up costing him a fortune. secondly it's not much better than a decent watercooling system. you have to understand, the heat is only being transfered to the liquid in the tank, but it's stil there, untill you find a better way to extract them out in the air. sure you can run another watercooling kit for the CPU separetly outside of the tank. but with the kind of money you have to spend for all that, it might be a good project to play with but not practical.

do let us know if you ever do it.

[yahooadam]

plus if its in oil you will ruin all your stuff

And you still need to put a heatsink on your stuff

the bigger the better

TBH, i dont see the advantage .....

But it sounds like loads of fun :) if u got the money

[NotMyBest2Day]

WD-40 is non-conductive, and it's not as dense as water, so it'll get rid of the heat faster than water would. The best part is that you can buy it by the gallon at places like Home Depot, Lowes, and possibly even local hardware stores.

[Rudegar]

usualy the less dence something is the lower the temp before it evaporate
thats something one have to take into acount i guess
and the less dence the easier time it would prob also have seeping into the electrolytes and you dont want fluid into those

[LiquidPsyrix]

Not to mention FLAMMABLE!

Don't OC that bad boy too much if it's in WD40; "One small spark in the tank, one giant leap to your neighbor's backyard..."

-LiquidPsyrix-

[Zefram]

There is no such thing as non-conductive liquid. All liquid are conductive, all those non-conductive liquid that are sold just have some secret formula to "lower" the electrical conductivity!

Read the whitepapers on the non-conductive liquid, you'd see that it can conduct a "little" bit of electricity :D

[Rudegar]

but then so does air if the Hz's are high enough