Yes, someone on here is running their rig in mineral oil and mining. They made their own setup and it is working with I think five cards. There are pics of it under the pic of my rig thread. The only issue I can think of that would be a real pain is that the oil can get contaminated once things like dust and other forign items enter the mix. The would then cause you to have to shutdown and drain, clean and reload as needed which could be a real pain. I have thought about this and I would say that if your going to attempt it that you basically plan that the gear you put in will be tossed after two or three years if you get that far. Otherwise it is really interesting idea for us heat and noise producers.
Before I posted this I was doing a bit of searching, and YT videos, the one said after 3 years, everything is still going well without switching oil, the only thing is the oil is a little darker. Even if this did happen, I would think a siphon technique going into a filter, and just keep adding the clean oil back into the mix would take care of that. Possibly saving a few hundred a month on 10 minutes of work if needbe is a good trade. |
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It still gets hot... Think of it like a deep fryer, the heat you put in the oil doesn't magically vanish, you need to cool the oil. It may not be true with a low power computer but with a mining rig, cooling the oil would be needed.
Also consider that because of the oil everything in it will heat up to whatever temp it is at. Even things that are normally cool, like USB controllers, capacitors, etc which could cause problems if heated up too high.
There was a guy who did this however, I think it was in the "pics of your mining rigs" thread.
That's why you cool the oil, there are many different ways you can do it, and off the top of my head.. Hook a heatsink to frigerator coils. Hook a heatsink that's buried into the ground. Hook a heatsink thats connected to a pool. Where I live, you dig 2 feet down and you're at water. A free source of heat dispersion. You did not mention that in your first post, it looks like you assume the heat just goes away. A big heat sink would work well but wouldn't it just be easier, cleaner and probably cheaper to water cool the GPUs? Well I gave a suggestion, not the solution in the first post lol. Probably would not be cheaper to water cool, I'm not to familiar with watercooling, but looking online, each is $100+, if you need 25 of them, you're spending a lot of money. You will still have to buy the mineral oil, but at a bulk purchase, you can get a lot of oil, relatively cheap, and you can put a bunch of rigs in 1 tank with oil. |
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It still gets hot... Think of it like a deep fryer, the heat you put in the oil doesn't magically vanish, you need to cool the oil. It may not be true with a low power computer but with a mining rig, cooling the oil would be needed.
Also consider that because of the oil everything in it will heat up to whatever temp it is at. Even things that are normally cool, like USB controllers, capacitors, etc which could cause problems if heated up too high.
There was a guy who did this however, I think it was in the "pics of your mining rigs" thread.
That's why you cool the oil, there are many different ways you can do it, and off the top of my head.. Hook a heatsink to frigerator coils. Hook a heatsink that's buried into the ground. Hook a heatsink thats connected to a pool. Where I live, you dig 2 feet down and you're at water. A free source of heat dispersion. |
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It's probably fine except when you want to work with the hardware i.e. adding/replacing boards etc.
Everything will be slick with mineral oil which sounds yucky.
I've seen people on here who have 10-20+ rigs, all maxed already, so adding wont be an issue, and replacing wont either, as no dust gets to your components. I've been seeing online 3+ years with 0 problems. The energy cost savings alone would make it worth while of having a sticky part if you needed to access it. You could get creative of ways to make eco-heatsinks to zero your heat energy bill. |
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To bad they cant download the software easily.
SolutionNice solution, then the SS will show up at your door, and arrest you, hold you for months until they discover the coins you sent are not being used to support their nuclear plant. |
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5. How to Enter
Does this mean previous orders to this posting?
No. We have been advised that including entries prior to the announcement of the contest would not make this a lawful Contest in the United States. The Contest begins on 10/17/2012 at 23:59:59 and ends once cumulative sales totaling one hundred thousand bitcoins (100,000 BTC) have been properly funded and confirmed on the FastCash4Bitcoin website ( http://fastcash4bitcoins.com). Awesome, this is a great thing you're offering. Hopefully I can get some more coins, and enter  |
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That's the most rational way to use them: I learned that at my expense.
Just because 90%+ of "investing" opportunities are scams or losing propositions, and anything on sale for BTC is overpriced.
It's just due to the black market that a BTC economy exists at all.
Uh, you're wrong on that. I'm new to bitcoins, and I can see an outside perspective on why the BTC economy is still here. And that reason is... Faith Faith that prices will go up and not down Faith that people will keep going Faith that they will get rich because more and more people pick it up Things are not that overpriced, they're a bit more expensive, but the loops to convert back to usd is a killer. Worse than PP fees, lol.. |
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5. How to Enter
Does this mean previous orders to this posting?
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They want your zip code, not the zip where it was bought.
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FYI, most people look at post count. 1700 posts is not anonymous to most people, most people see 1700 and say "Hey I bet I can trust that guy!"...
click my name...well he's only been online since june this year... haha Either way, no one looks at that. I bet even lower numbers people trust, 200-300 etc. |
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Crypt_Current
I'm really sorry to hear about your situation but you need to take responsibility for your actions. CryptoxChange did not come to your house and deposit your rent money for you. You chose to do that. It's an unfortunate situation but as with any investment or speculation you should only be putting at risk money that you can afford to lose.
As events went down the way stated: So you're putting him to blame for depositing money, into a network that's proven successful, and now that its been seized its his fault? You my friend have some thinking flaws. |
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I don't ask for the receipt, nor a picture of the card. Sorry it would be to much of a burden for my customers to upload that, especially since some of these cards are 3+ weeks old, I doubt they even have it.
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I've done a few trades with one member, went smooth, lets see if he will post.
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Why do people care what the BTC are used for.. Seriously? I read SR is doing 1.4m in transactions or something monthly. Do you want BTC to stay afloat? Yeah screw the 2m monthly trades of BTC, and drop the price of your BTC.
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(And don't bounty hunters just go kidnap people instead of extradition being used in those no extradition places? Since U.S. courts do not care whether kidnapping was used to cause the accused to appear in court?)
-MarkM-
Dog the bounty hunger went to jail for hopping over to Mexico to grab someone. So no. |
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Hi, all your funding options say zero funds.
Funds available now. Awesome, giving a test run! order # 14238 Thank you! |
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FYI, most people look at post count. 1700 posts is not anonymous to most people, most people see 1700 and say "Hey I bet I can trust that guy!"...
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