Bored with your computer? Try taking it for a ride in mineral oil! :D

[Lucifiel]

Now that I think of it, that's the main reason I replied originally the way you saw it. (SWEEEEEEET!) Other than being a really ingenious thing to do. They are fellow Ubuntuers (sp) as well.

*looks around while whistling* lol - jk!

Yeah... it FREAKING rocks!!!!

JUMPS IN JOY!!!!

Sorry, I'll stop with the caps now.

[Pugwash]

That's great, I can't believe it worked! Thanks for this.

[Polygon]

i chuckled when i saw the ubuntu feisty splash screen on that guys comp

i laughed even harder when i saw he was running 3dmark05 on his computer......submersed in mineral oil. that is really epic... i wanna try that

[init1]

Uhh wow. That was interesting. I'm not that daring...

I wasn't able to watch it with sound, so I don't know if they explained anything...but would one do this for cooling purposes? Or just for fun...

No explaining in sound, just music. You didn't miss anything

[init1]

Interesting, but does it actually keep your equipment cooler than air? How is the heat dissipated if there's no circulation?

Manual stirring, maybe?

[eentonig]

Actually, this experiment has been done before a few years back. And it was indeed a study for cooling purposes. But you would need to create a current (is this a correct word? To move the water.) so the heat gets spread.

[regomodo]

definitely an improvement on vegetable oil systems.

Surely the vast amount of oil and surface area of the case would be sufficient to not require a circulation system. I wonder if anyone has tried this with all the fans turned off as that oil must be putting hell of a load on them.

[Lord Illidan]

Looked good.. I laughed hard when I saw the bubbles though!

[mips]

Are there any other names for "Mineral Oil"? It might be called something else over here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil

The above has a long list of other names.

Another option is 3M Fluorinert, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert

[tedbeau]

I was wondering about the fans on the power supply and the graphics card also. It would seem that the oil has to be keeping them from spinning at their designed speed. I would assume that this is not ideal for them.
I would suggest removing or disabling them and providing another method to create a current flow in the mineral oil, perhaps an aquarium filter pump. I suppose the bubbler would provide a flow but I would also be concerned about a bubble settling on a motherboard chip surface and causing a hot spot.