Mineral Oil Submerged PC in Aquarium (original video)
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22 Comments for Mineral Oil Submerged PC in Aquarium (original video)
1. macfuehrbush | February 3rd, 2011 at 10:30 am
go ubuntu!!!
2. 240SSONLY | February 7th, 2011 at 5:29 am
in theory would computers last longer this way,? since most electronics are made to fail…. also no corrosion or dirt would ever get to them and wear them out….
question as far as servicing, just drain and fill how often?
thanx, 5 stars
3. jeroeniskoning | February 8th, 2011 at 6:38 am
What are the advatages?
I guess;
No dust
quiet
Nice look
extremely cool?
4. biohealz | February 11th, 2011 at 12:08 am
how does this work?
5. bob505470 | February 11th, 2011 at 9:12 am
because the mineral oil is not conductive
6. kobun37 | February 14th, 2011 at 8:22 am
Normal hard drives are not airtight. They have a hole covered by a filter in the casing to equalize air pressure at higher elevations.
7. JAbrahamCollins | February 14th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
This machine is submerged into mineral oil (horse laxative) which is completely non-conductive. submerging a PC into water would be a sunken failboat.
8. JAbrahamCollins | February 15th, 2011 at 10:35 am
A radiator and pump.
9. leafybean | February 15th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Sure would! If you tried this with a standard HD, it will fail quickly due to the oil slowing the movement of the head.
10. pntballkid95 | February 19th, 2011 at 2:50 am
i dont know much about this, but how is the thing still working under liquid oil?
11. ErikLiberty | February 21st, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Would the new solid state hard drives work?
12. mranenome | February 23rd, 2011 at 9:58 pm
That’s a five gallon container, excuse me
13. mranenome | February 25th, 2011 at 6:19 am
I have some of the parts of such a project sitting in a corner over yonder. I went as far as to get a gallon plastic tupperware container and mounting a motherboard tray in it. But I cannot cannot bring myself to put a thousand dollars worth of stuff in oil. God the shame. Also Im pretty sure I need to set up a radiator and oil pump to get cool the oil. One of these days I’ll win the lottery and do whatever the hell I want.
14. Xmarmaras | February 27th, 2011 at 5:29 am
3:09 What Would Be An Aquarium Without Bubbles LOL ^_^ !!!!!
15. Minigunner | March 1st, 2011 at 9:25 am
Bet thats a mess to clean up.
16. ByT3R | March 2nd, 2011 at 5:23 am
At least you were smart enough to not submerge the harddrive. Some other guys on YouTube dumped all the components in the oil.
17. 97268324 | March 3rd, 2011 at 6:47 am
Hey shut the fuck up, i made a small mistake ok, mineral oil then. Big deal..
18. arzy2008 | March 3rd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
so and where is a fish?
19. gnikko23 | March 6th, 2011 at 7:56 am
that’s very good i heard it cools PC just about 10C. that’s very very cool, but is heavy anyways if i we’re to build a thing like that I’ll pick a small container w/c can submerge all parts ^^
20. vwfanarg | March 6th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
you can fry some potatos in there, cool
21. SylphViper | March 9th, 2011 at 10:33 am
It’s actually prett cheap to make these PC’s, at least compared to the higher-end PC’s.
22. c3h89 | March 9th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Wonderful, but….
How do you cool the oil. If you don’t cool the oil at an effective rate it’s like cooling with a brick, when it’s cold it’s cold, but when it heats up it can get very hot and fry the computer.
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