Ultimate Hybrid Cooling?!?

[Tyo_Atrosa]

So i had an idea for a cooling solution that might sound crazy and overkill but hear me out.

 

So you take a few High-Powered Peltier cooler plates, slap it on your CPU and GPU, slap some water cooling heatblocks to those with a high flow pump,

and then submerge the computer in Mineral Oil to prevent the condensation buildup on the components when you crank up the cooling to overclock the crap out of your system. 

 

Think it would work? It's way cheaper than submerging in Novec anyways...

[Shimejii]

Mineral oil honestly is not worth ever doing. Its pure novelty, nothing more at this point. 

[Tyo_Atrosa]

it this case i'm not really talking about using it to submerge for cooling, just to prevent frosting on the components from the peltier. unless you can think of a better solution?

 

in this case it would be a Very Compact build (everything crammed in as small an enclosure as possible with no air clearance, all plastic covers and stickers removed) with very little internal volume, so it wouldn't take much mineral oil to fill the case. i'd also be sealing it with epoxy to prevent leaks, with the rear ports and power plug being directly epoxied to the rear of the case to allow access without having to ever open it.

 

i also thought of maybe just sealing everything in Resin, but then the passively cooled parts would probably overheat like crazy.

[Shimejii]

Honestly it is just for a show build, your not going to be using this day to day because maintenance is a bitch. You're going to be spending so much time and energy doing this and your going to gain little to nothing compared to other cooling solutions  Some cases already are not fun to carry around with a full build, let alone a more condensed case with mineral oil.

[Tyo_Atrosa]

with the peltier cooler actively cooling the cpu below ambient you could theoretically get much crazier overclocks, especially if you live in an area like me where ambient temp and humidity is already high enough to keep standard air cooling from maintaining a reasonably low temp. is more about protecting the components from humidity then anything, as i've had regular game consoles and pcs alike be killed by the high humidity alone in my area. even the 'hot' components on a motherboard are sometimes cooler than ambient temperature just because they are shaded from the sun, so moisture ends up all in my stuff.

 

I can't use a regular water cooler in my pc for the same reason. the condensation kills everything down here.

 

anyone who thinks its hot in hell must not believe in alabama.

[W-L]

1 hour ago, Tyo_Atrosa said:

with the peltier cooler actively cooling the cpu below ambient you could theoretically get much crazier overclocks, especially if you live in an area like me where ambient temp and humidity is already high enough to keep standard air cooling from maintaining a reasonably low temp. is more about protecting the components from humidity then anything, as i've had regular game consoles and pcs alike be killed by the high humidity alone in my area. even the 'hot' components on a motherboard are sometimes cooler than ambient temperature just because they are shaded from the sun, so moisture ends up all in my stuff.

 

I can't use a regular water cooler in my pc for the same reason. the condensation kills everything down here.

 

anyone who thinks its hot in hell must not believe in alabama.

It would be easier to just conformal coat the board and add the proper insulation and dielectric grease if you were going subambient but peliter cooling isn't really popular for the main reason of inefficiency . Regular watercooling will not have any problems as it doesn't go below sub ambient. 

[Tyo_Atrosa]

Normally, watercooling would be fine, but i'm aiming for a fully sealed systen due to the enviroment i live in. the humidity corrodes unsealed electronics very quickly around here.