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Discussion in 'Overclocking, Cooling and Modding' started by PaulWuzHere, Mar 17, 2006.

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  1. SOcRatEs TechSpot Paladin

    Could be cool to isolate the 3 major heat producing componants to a separate daughter card;
    Gpu, Cpu and chipset and emerse only them in a much smaller container.

    The bottle neck then is to make a connection from the cooled componants to the rest of the now dry/quiet system.
    Now you wouldn't need to make so generous a donation to the MS of petrol Co.'s
  2. kirock Newcomer, in training

    CMHreplied:" The PSU has to stay dry probably because of the high voltages in there." Yes a switching power supply uses high voltage in the DC to AC to DC section to generate the required power. Power =VoltsXAmps, so a common good PSU would have 12V@28A which is 336Watts. But directly switching 28A is ridiculously expensive to do. But if you up the voltage using a small transformer to say 120V, then we have 2.8A to switch on and off. Maybe still a little high. So we use 240V and we get 1.4A better, but keep going. Let's go 480V and we have 0.7A or 700mA, that's better, much less expensive mosfets can now be used to switch that 700mA.
    All along we never lost any power, 480VX0.7A=336Watts, what we wanted in the first place.
    I just love to take the opportunity to :zzz: people.
    :wave:
  3. CMH TechSpot Chancellor

    I remember something about nothing in this world being 100% efficient.

    Changing those voltages around probably isn't very efficient, but might be better (and safer) than having 4.8A flowing around (which I might add, very dangerous).

    Time to seal up the HDDs to work with that setup....
  4. MrGaribaldi TechSpot Ambassador

    True... I guess I'm still living in the past, where a situation like that was death to the cpu, unless you were quick on your feet..
    But I'll try to keep in mind that things have moved on since I was last following it. Thanks for arresting me!

    CMH> That depends on how you build your case. You could create a separate compartment above the oil-filled one, where you had all the components that needs to stay out of the oil. Create small slots to get the cable through, and then seal them with silicon (or similar).
    (Imagine a full tower, where everything except the motherboard (and thus anything connected to the PEG/AGP, and PCI) is on the top, and then having a watertight seal between top and bottom.)

    CrossFire> As for overclocking, that is only if you just use the oil to cool the 'puter with. Nothing wrong with having a phase-change system, LNO2 or regular water cooling in a rig submerged in oil. Actually better, since the insulation will be done for you by the oil :)
  5. PaulWuzHere Newcomer, in training

    Its weird imagining a world without jumpers on the mobo and water cooling replacing air cooling. Also with people running 2 graphics cards in Sli and Crossfire. Even tho I am only 15, things have changed ALOT! It all started with Intel's socket 478 and Amd's 754/940/939. I can't wait to see what happens with AM2, maybe jello cooled comps or 8 chraphics cards. Maybe 4 cpus all quad core! WHO KNOWS! Maybe the standard in one year will be 2 Gigs of ram to open windows. lol. This is getting outta hand my friends.
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