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I am going to build a mineral oil pc soon and chose all of the components already. I was just curious if I could have some opinions of these choices and whether or not I should change something to my build. Also any advice towards building mineral oil pc's would be helpful. My first one ;) 

 

The components

  • Asus maximus viii gene m-atx
  • saphire nitro r9 390 8gb
  • g skill ripjaws 5 2x 8gb
  • cm master air maker 8
  • RMi series rm850i
  • intel core i7 6700k
  • 120gb kingston ssd now
  • wd blue 1 tb (i know it cannot go in the oil)
  • Asus wifi card (PCE-AC68)

Thanks in advance!

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yeah, change this - don't do mineral oil

CPU: Intel i7 5820K @ 4.20 GHz | Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS | RAM: Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz | GPU: Sapphire R9 Fury (x2 CrossFire)
Storage: Samsung 950Pro 512GB // OCZ Vector150 240GB // Seagate 1TB | PSU: Seasonic 1050 Snow Silent | Case: NZXT H440 | Cooling: Nepton 240M
FireStrike // Extreme // Ultra // 8K // 16K

 

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20 minutes ago, Jason_Tan_ said:

I am going to build a mineral oil pc

Why?

 

Cons :- Can't maintain it easily ,cant clean it easily, expensive, cooling is meh, seems delicate (no metal case just a fish tank).

Pros :-  Sounds cool

 

Seems a bit of a faff for not much benefit to me .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Would certainly be a pain in the *** to maintain as our commander and chief, Linus, stated. However, a willing man with a well thought out plan; why not? 

I wish you luck on your endeavour. 

COPPER THEMED SCRATCH BUILD: PROJECT CUFEC IN PROGRESS 

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50 minutes ago, Jason_Tan_ said:

I am going to build a mineral oil pc soon and chose all of the components already. I was just curious if I could have some opinions of these choices and whether or not I should change something to my build. Also any advice towards building mineral oil pc's would be helpful. My first one ;) 

 

The components

  • Asus maximus viii gene m-atx
  • saphire nitro r9 390 8gb
  • g skill ripjaws 5 2x 8gb
  • cm master air maker 8
  • RMi series rm850i
  • intel core i7 6700k
  • 120gb kingston ssd now
  • wd blue 1 tb (i know it cannot go in the oil)
  • Asus wifi card (PCE-AC68)

Thanks in advance!

The components looks good so far. You may should get 16 GByte RAM as upgrading later is a pain. The PSU is a bit an overkill but will work fine. A bigger SDD would also be a good change.

 

But the way more importatnt questions are:

- What case / DIY do you use?

- How do you cool the oil?

- What oil do you use?

 

If you start the build, please make a build log.

 

Also look here:

 

 

EDIT: It is already a build log ;)

My bad.

Mineral oil and 40 kg aluminium heat sinks are a perfect combination: 73 cores and a Titan X, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Oil

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1 minute ago, gamingowiz said:

 why not?
I wish you luck on your endeavour. 

Don't get me wrong I am not saying don't do it I am just saying that FOR ME it seems a lot of faff for no benefit,

But if it is really what you (TINY)want then go for it.

 Two motoes to live by   "Sometimes there are no shortcuts"

                                           "This too shall pass"

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1 hour ago, Stefan1024 said:

But the way more importatnt questions are:

- What case / DIY do you use?

- How do you cool the oil?

- What oil do you use?

I will use a fishtank from the pet store

I will hook up a large radiator and a pump to cool the oil

And I will use the same type of oil that Linus did in his video

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1 minute ago, Jason_Tan_ said:

I will use a fishtank from the pet store

I will hook up a large radiator and a pump to cool the oil

And I will use the same type of oil that Linus did in his video

Sounds reasonable. Should be fine.

Mineral oil and 40 kg aluminium heat sinks are a perfect combination: 73 cores and a Titan X, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Oil

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