I live in the South and have my 'beater' pc in the garage, where it runs too hot to mine right now, so I'm hoping this will be able to keep it cool. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned mineral oil cooling on here - or at least not that I have found. I've always been fascinated by the idea, but haven't ever tried it out. I can use my beater PC with an old nvidia 8600gt. I figure if it doesn't work, then I'm not out much
Here are some examples:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.phphttp://www.instructables.com/id/Mineral-Oil-Submerged-PC/The crowd around here seems really experienced and I'd like your thoughts.
I think the pro's would be:
1. relatively cheap for a cooling system (compared to water cooling)
2. quiet, like really quiet
3. less power used on cooling the system (like the mining rig pics with multiple fans pointing at each gpu)
4. fun weekend project
Con's:
1. run the risk of frying your board
2. ?
Personally, I'm thinking of going all out ghetto - using one of those plastic pans/buckets that you get from the hospital, and then hooking up an old transmission radiator and a fish pump to move the oil. I'm hoping that the movement of the oil will be enough to keep the heat going to the surface where it will mostly dissipate and then the radiator will get the rest. I hope to get away without even fan cooling the radiator!
If it's still too hot, I guess I could drop the whole thing in the refrigerator
Anyway thoughts, suggestions, referrals to the insane asylum?