Exclusive: Oil Immersion Cooling Goes Mainstream with Hardcore PC's Reactor

Written by Gordon Mah Ung 10/20/08 at 01:00:00 PM



Stop. You had us at oil submersed motherboard, CPU and GPUs. You didn’t even have to dunk the SSDs, PSU or create a custom motherboard and bullet resistant tank too to convince us that you’re really hard core, umm, Hardcore.

Of course, if you stare too hard at the tank, you’ll miss all the heavenly glory that the Hardcore PC truly is. From its beautiful aluminum case, to its top port routing and the easy to access hard drives, every centimeter of the machine oozes custom computing. And we can honestly say that after tinkering with the most exotic PCs available on Earth for a decade now. What Hardcore is trying to do is so over the top that no one has ever tried it before on a production machine.

But before Hardcore can ascend to take its place among the top performance PC makers, there are an awful lot of questions to answer. Like can they really make and sell these babies for how much the company claims it can? Does it really work? To find the answer to that read on.


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I was going to try this with some old PC parts with a fishtank, which can be seen on this video:

But I gave up looking for mass quantities of baby oil and measuring fish thanks.

YouTube - Mineral Oil Submerged Computer

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LOL, nice video Everlong. However, mine would probably end in a sparks flying everywhere and a loud explosion. :eek:

haha. I just saw this after posting the same thing in Chillout room. haha I saw this today and was amazed. lol

Yeah but does it cool?

















Later Ted

I helped build a mineral oil cooled computer with quad SLI. The four pumps did a nice job on cooling the oil but the heated oil damaged the capacitors on the board. It ate through the seals.

I think I will just stick with air cooled with a few good fans for now.

I air cool all my hardware with no problems. I did replace the Cooler Master fans with Noctua to quiet the chassis down 30dB.

So there is a second use for baby oil