Do not try this at home. I repeat, do not try this at home. The folks over at Toms Hardware have a story on using eight gallons of cooking oil to act as a cooling medium for a PC.
Strange at it may seem, I seem to recall that oil is commonly used to cool high power electrical components. However, I have never heard of anyone using oil to cool a PC via immersion. That said, these people took the time to seal a case and make other needed changes to a motherboard and CPU and apparently ended up with a stable, completely quiet PC.
However, I'm not an electrical engineer and I have no idea whether this is safe to do so I'll say it once again, don't try this at home. YMMV. Insert disclaimer here.
Aloha!
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Memory leaks can be a problem though ... :)
I don't think cooking oil is the best for this cause it probably goes rancid after a couple of months.
Posted by sjon | January 9, 2006 9:11 PM
Posted on January 9, 2006 21:11
Can you make fries with that? :-)
Posted by Dave Markowitz | January 12, 2006 11:47 AM
Posted on January 12, 2006 11:47