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As you all may know you can cool your PC with mineral oil. I was wondering if there are any alternatives to mineral oil that are non conductive and are habitable and hospitable to fish. I was wondering if it's possible to fill a case with this fluid and have your fish live in the same case, and liquid, as your pc.

Hi, Just bought a screensaver from uscenes but now it says its unable to play on my computer as saver because the file isn't supported. Is this because of windows 10?

I got a betta fish today dunno if anyone is a fish fan but i've had turtles in the past, and i always wanted a fish, so i got a betta today (Dragon Scale Male in case u were wondering). i got a pretty small tank with a thing that helps me clean the water faster (not a filter, its more like a tank with a reservoir that the water goes when its dirty), some rocks that came with it and a nice looking figure (he seems to like it because he goes in between some squares that the shape is) my room temp is about 75 normal, goes to around 79's when i game bc pc produces heat. And at night i think it goes to about 72-73 sometimes what should i know to take care of him and have him live a good (hopefully long) life. Also suggest me names

Hello guys, I am new to the Linus Tech Tips forums, I wanted some advice on my new custom water loop, my specs are: i7-4790k MSI ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97S SLI KRAIT EDITION PS: is 8gb ram good enough or should I go 16? A 1tb hard disk from Seagate A 256tb Samsung SSD Corsair AX 860 modular power supply Enermax Ostrog red case, I have been searching some water cooling loops and I think I am going to go for a custom water cooling system as an upgrade as I have been running into problems with my current air-cooler. And since I am going all in with this with a practically endless budget, I wanted to get creative with my loop. I intend on using a Corsair Hydro series H100i for my CPU. Although I am not sure if some of the parts I want to add onto that system are compatible. My main concern is the shark that I'm gonna put into the loop. So I guess the question is, is a great-white shark ATX compatible? And if not, would drilling custom holes damage the PCB inside the shark? Thanks for the advice.

I've been urged to put this here in my build log. So let's see if I can figure this forum nonsense out... Later I'll post a video, I'm better at video, it's actually my profession. My Problem: I needed to separate my computer from the TV so I can work while everyone else in the house can watch TV. WOW that sounds sad now that I type it out! Solution 1: Use a Raspberry Pi. That worked for a while but it got tired after a while so I decided to upgrade. Solution 2: Buy an actual Android TV box thing. That only worked for a month and the thing kept dropping the digital sound signal! Solution 3: Get a refund and combine two projects that I've been wanting to do for a LONG time and go ALL out. This consisted of buying proper PC hardware, designing a custom perspex "tank", getting oil with which to fill it up, getting a fish tank to put the perspex tank in, guilting the girlfriend into buying fish for the fish tank because she killed the last one. The Parts: Mobo: GA-B85M-HD3-A (rev. 1.0) Chip: i5 4460 RAM: Some sort of Kingston 1600 Mhz low profile nonsense (2 x 4Gig) SSD: Samsung EVO 850 120Gig SSD PSU: Raidmax RX-450 Computer Tank: Custom design (ask me for drawings) Mineral Oil: Engen's Poweroil TO 1020 (60U) Fish Tank: Juwel Vision 180 Keyboard/Mouse: Rii i25 Parts added later in the build: Radiator: XSPC EX240 Fans: Cooler Master SickleFlow 120mm Fish tank pump: Some random SP2500 ssubmersible thing I had laying about. As you can see, nothing special in the machine component department. The fish tank I will say is fantastic as a standalone thing but that's not the point of this post. Now please forgive me if I make this post wrong, I'm a dumass deep down The procedure (The pictures aren't great, I was too excited!): First thing was to get the tank, some fish, and some decorations from my local pet shop and let the tank "cycle" before I actually get to doing anything. Next step were the bits and pieces of the computer and getting them fit and ready for use and to test it all out with my entertainment system. I ended up installing Windows 10 and Kodi. I then got the network up and running using a little WiFi dongle I had laying about. Then downstairs I hardwired it to the network and tested the audio. Then let Kodi do its thing and categorise all my stuff. This part was me testing to see if I could output digital audio through the HDMI properly from a "normal" computer... success!! Custom tank finally arrives a few days later from a local perspex company. Next step was to put everything into the case and test it out. Yes I was watching a review of Duke Nukem 3D And here are a couple more pics of it in the oil tank without oil... In the mean time my fish can go into the tank since it's been long enough for the water to cycle. At this point some of the more unobservant of you are freaking out: "DON'T PUT THE FISH IN OIL!! YOU'LL KILL THEM!!!" No I won't... End of discussion After a few days my oil arrives so it's time to begin filling the oil tank Now here's where I hit my first PROPER snag. The CPU fan won't properly engage once the machine shuts down... OH NOES!!! After some back and forth and a lot of help from this forum (I'm calling @Stefan1024 out here to say thanks) it finally came to light that this little fan will NOT start in oil. The PSU fan runs just fine! I then decided to get myself a radiator, some fans, and pipe plus sundries for this whole activity. Like I said before, I'm a dumass, I'm GUESSING my way through this whole project Here's the proper Frankenstein bit. Basically now the oil is being pumped out of the tank via that silly little fish pump through the pipes, through the radiator, and back into the tank. See that black thing just above my left foot shoe? That's the pump. Also for those REALLY paying attention you'll see I've made myself a "front panel" out of some plastic that I found from the fish tank cover with some recycled LEDs a NEW USB 3.0 header and some buttons (this fails later). Now comes my temperature tests. I ran it in a few different circumstances to see what the best would be and also bought some submersible temperature gauges so I can properly see what's going on. Totally guessing here! Also bare in mind I'm going by memory here so I could be wrong. You'll notice I've measured the water as well so I can see what happens. I let the pump sit doing nothing to see what "normal" was and I got about 40 degrees. I ran the pump with no fans and got about 37 degrees (no surprise here). I then ran the pump with the fans going using the machine "normally" and it came down to about 29 degrees (I do some research and the fish actually prefer it.) I also experimented with the position of the oil's "in" and "out" points and found that the best heat reduction came from pulling the hot oil from the top, cooling it, and pushing the cold oil to the bottom. This sounds counter intuitive but my cheap, little, blue temperature gauge doesn't lie. Finally decided that it was time to put it into the tank. These 16 liters of oil with components and perspex are HEAVY!!!!! I removed about half the oil so I can lift it without it slipping out my hands, removed about 30 liters of water from the tank (I'm being cautious OK!) and IN IT GOES with the help of my girlfriend cable bashing for me! What a laugh! I didn't think that the thing would float; but hey, that's how boats work! LOL! Once everything has equalized out after a day or two of "normal" use both the fish tank temps and the oil temps are at 27 degrees. PERFECT! And here's what it finally looks like after I bought one or two extra fake plants. Conclusion: It performs VERY well as an HTPC. I'm going to connect the main media drive in the built in cupboard below soon so it doesn't have to talk through the network all the time for media. But all in all I'm VERY happy with the result! What I learned: Oil is messy. It WILL invade everything, your fingers, your food, your hair, your house, even your nose! Once all has settled though all of that goes away... until you have to change a stick of RAM! I would definitely redesign the case to have handles and to have the motherboard mounting board removable. MANY times I found myself going "Oh S!@# I can't reach whatever" and ending up with a HUGE struggle that wasn't necessary. Plan MORE. That "front panel" I made was suppose to fit directly into a hole on top of the fish tank that the original plastic came from. Great idea in theory but the wires dangle in the water which is less than ideal so now it sits on top rather than neatly in place. This actually resulted in a minor oil spill from the wires; lucky me, the fish survived. It seems as though my Mobo can't control the fans properly. The board outputs either 12v or PWM for some control. So they're both running at full blast now but they're not actually all that loud. I'd buy different fans for anyone following. I probably should have made some sort of "lid" for the oil tank. I'm finding that the bubbles popping and water condensation on the fish tank "roof" are causing water to build up on the top edges of the oil tank. Weather this is getting INTO the oil or not (Or EVEN THE MOTHERBOARD) I don't know yet... If I costed this whole project before hand I probably wouldn't have done it. But I don't regret a single moment of failure or Rand spent (My currency). I've learned a lot from this build and also gained a FULLY FUNCTIONAL HTPC that the smaller and cheaper alternatives just can't live up to. All in all, I'm VERY happy. I'm going to be posting a video some time soon given enough free time! Throw me any questions you want. Compliments and criticisms welcome (I can always learn more).

Help! how much watts do I need for this build/is this a good build? Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-02 MSI Micro ATX A88XM GAMING AMD A10-Series APU A10-7850K Corsair H80i G.Skill 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Ripjaws Series EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB Super SC ACX 2.0+ with Back Plate Crucial BX100 120GB SSD 500 GB WD Black HDD

Hi everyone, I'm new here and ready to make an ass out of myself. I've been interested in water cooling for a while, opting to go with an AIO Corsair unit in the interest of budget and safety. After watching some water cooling videos on LTT, specifically the whole-room water cooling, oil cooling, and scrapyard water cooling videos, some gears started turning in my head. My computer doesn't run hot but it is a bit loud and if I can make it quiet and cooler all in one go, all the better. My solution is using an aquarium as a passively cooled radiator/reservoir combo, the idea being that the surface area of the water would dissipate heat without the need for fans or a separate radiator. I know that it wouldn't be nearly as efficient as an actively cooled system but my goal was for perfect silence and as few moving parts as possible. Following the information in the Watercooling 101 sticky thread and doing some of my own research and number crunching I came up with the following: To calculate the number of hours it would take to heat the water in the tank you have 3.1 * Gal * ∆F / TDP = Hrs where Gal is the volume of water in gallons, ∆F is the temperature change in Fahrenheit, TDP is the heat generated by the parts being cooled, and Hrs is the number of hours it would take to reach the target change. The first stage of this project would be to just cool the CPU, which is rated at 140W TDP but the goal is to cool the CPU and both GPUs, which is a total TDP of ~440W. (Note: I would be running a submerged pump to reduce noise and haven't taken the pump's TDP into account) To find the right balance of tank size and time the system could be effectively cooled I plugged in the variables and came out with this chart: (Temperature delta in F, results in hours) 30 degrees F is my baseline (100F/37.8C target - 70F estimated room temperature) with 50 being the upper limit (which would put the water at 120F/48C. I haven't seen any data comparing coolant temperature to CPU/CPU temperature, and I doubt it's 1:1, but 120F seems like a reasonable limit. So now that we have values for everything else we need to decide now long we want to keep the system at full load before hitting these temperature targets which will tell us our tank size. Looking at the 30 and 50 degree rows the 10 gallon column appears to give the best times for my typical usage, 2.1 hours and 3.5 hours respectively. Another variable, which will either depend on or determine the outer diameter of the tank is heat loss due to evaporation and radiation which is dependent on the surface area of the water. One tank I'm looking at is cylinder with a surface area of 1.07 sq ft. Using this chart as reference we get a BTU/hr loss of 230 which translates to 67.4 watts/hr when the water is at my 100F target and 137 watts at my 120F target. It's not going to dissipate the whole 440w load but it will slow the rate at which the water warms, and it also assumes there's no air moving across the water so the efficiency could be a little higher. If I need to increase the amount of heat being shed I could also run a standard radiator mounted to the top of the PC. Like I said, I would be starting with just cooling the CPU which is only 140W. The chart for that looks like this: (Temperature delta in F, results in hours) 6.6 and 11.1 hours at full load, not taking the natural cooling of the water into account, is certainly doable. With all of that out of the way, does anyone see a reason this wouldn't work? The main issue I see right now is finding a submersible pump that will supply enough flow without adding too much heat to the water.

This is my first ever build log and it is also going to be the stupidest build I have ever done and It will take some time because I don't have all the parts yet but it should be a fun media computer for my living room, I hope you enjoy the end result

So my Hyper212 EVO FAN started making a fast clicking sounds like a baseball card on a bike spoke but on a much smaller scale I oiled it (not WD40) went silent but now its back and wont go away Sause what do you guys think?

So I just saw this news article and thought it was hilarious, and that you guys may enjoy it too.

So a while ago I started a project to build a home server for my family as a place to store music and movies as well as monitor my families computers and store backups. I decided on some pretty weak hardware, since it wasn't going to be used for much, and focused on looks and heat dispersion. I ended up going with a very old 3.4 GHZ Pentium D 945 dual core intel chip on the LGA 775 platform as well as a 430W psu, an evga GT 520 for the occasional video output, and a vantec 6 port sata II raid controller which is going to run 3 1TB western digital red drives in raid 5. now. while home servers aren't impressive, and this one isn't impressive in any way shape or form, I thought that i'd make it look interesting by equipping it with a thermaltake spinQ heatsink, and submerging in fishtank filled on one half with mineral oil, and on the other half with actual fish (I'm adding two panes of plexi-glass with a an air barrier in between for heat. I'm not an idiot). I'm making it look flashy and awesome because I have to put it in a place where everyone will be able to see it, and I wanted it to be pleasing to look at. if the temperatures prove too high, then I probably won't keep fish in the water part of the tank. I would also like to point out that the oil will be cooled by being pumped to the top of the fishtank (it's only half filled) and then pouring down the glass on all sides to cool against the glass. I'm going to try to get as thin a layer as possible to get maximum cooling. anyways, I was wondering of anyone had any ideas they wouldn't mind sharing, or any input as to hardware to use or tips for oil cooling. thanks a bunch, and I'll post pictures here and to a different thread when it's done! (if it's possible, haha) specs so far: motherboard: MSI core 2 Quad MATX G41M-P34 Storage: 3X WD red 1TB NAS in RAID 5 processor: Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHZ RAM: crucial 2X4GB DDR3 1333 MHZ umbuffered memory RAID card: Vantec 6-port (only four usable at a time) SATA II controller GPU: EVGA Geforce GT 520 (just for 1080P video playback capabilities) CPU heatsink: Thermaltake SpinQ with Blue LED centrifugal fan PSU: Corsair Builder series CX 430W psu coolant: a lot of mineral oil. actually, not that much compared to most oil cooled PCs, but it looks like a lot. There seems to be some confusion about the two separated halves. imagine a piece of plexi glass cutting a fish tank in half vertically. one half has mineral oil on it, and the other half has fishies on it. that's what I'm going for. Also, thanks for the positivity

hi i am new here and have a question. if you have a 15 Mbps down coming from your isp can every device get that full speed or will it always have to be divided up depending on how many devices? for example: if you have 24 Mbps 6 devices 15 / 6 = 4 Mbps/device or is there a way to get the full speed on all devices? i have a d-link dir-601 a1 (sorry for the noobish question im a computer builder not a networking guy lol)