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3M Novic fluid?

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2 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Doesn't seem that different to mineral oil. Other than it doesn't seem to have oily part going on.

The main difference is mineral oil has a boiling point of 300+°C. This stuff will keep your components at 60C I think it is m

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17 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

The main difference is mineral oil has a boiling point of 300+°C. This stuff will keep your components at 60C I think it is m

About 61 C is where the liquid evaporates, but the components will get slightly hotter than that as you know, it needs to transfer the heat through the metal to the liquid.

2 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Doesn't seem that different to mineral oil. Other than it doesn't seem to have oily part going on.

The entire tank has to be perfectly sealed to prevent the gas escaping.

 

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1 minute ago, amancalledoss said:

it seems like an over expensive gimmick to me , if it was cheaper then maybe but you would still have to spend all the extra money on perfectly sealing the chassis.

This isn't really designed for the home gamer. It's made to help cool massive high performance compute systems like super computers and the like. In those situations getting the highest cooling efficiency helps save on money and even in some locations is a legal requirement. 

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38 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

The main difference is mineral oil has a boiling point of 300+°C. This stuff will keep your components at 60C I think it is m

I don't see why you bring up those two numbers. PC hardware, even server grade won't be near 300C. And why would it matter if novec can keep components at 60C when LTT video shows lower temps with mineral oil?

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8 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I don't see why you bring up those two numbers. PC hardware, even server grade won't be near 300C. And why would it matter if novec can keep components at 60C when LTT video shows lower temps with mineral oil?

Because you asked the difference, when you have 4 xeons and multiple phi coprocessors in a 2U size rack case, being able to use an engineered fluid that boils at a great temperature, is not flammable nor electrically conductive is a great solution. Especially when things are getting higher powered(per U of rack space) with more densely populated motherboards. 

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17 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Because you asked the difference, when you have 4 xeons and multiple phi coprocessors in a 2U size rack case, being able to use an engineered fluid that boils at a great temperature, is not flammable nor electrically conductive is a great solution. Especially when things are getting higher powered(per U of rack space) with more densely populated motherboards. 

I didn't really ask difference. And I thought OP wanted to do this with desktop hardware like mineral oil build. In which sense I still don't see much difference other than 3M claims this fluid lacks the oily part of mineral oil.

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7 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I didn't really ask difference. And I thought OP wanted to do this with desktop hardware like mineral oil build. In which sense I still don't see much difference other than 3M claims this fluid lacks the oily part of mineral oil.

Ahh, sorry my bad, for some reason I thought you did.

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