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TESTING Our Oil-Cooled Components - Do they still work!?

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You should have taken apart the card to see if you could identify what the failure was. I'd bet thermal paste degradation but who knows. Interesting to find out.

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Yes Luke also killed his gpu when he took it from his mineral oil cooled pc. Apparently all the thermal paste was eaten away by mineral oil. He explained it hire: https://youtu.be/Cqj-p2ywA84?t=2m20s

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I would have done this differently too. I would have soaked the components in 99% isotropic alcohol for a few minutes then taken them out and let them dry for a few hours.  This would have removed that nasty mineral oil film which can become conductive with all the dust he was saying stuck to it.

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12 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Luke killed his graphics card when he pulled it from the original mineral oil PC because it had no thermal paste and it fried.

 

You guys don't learn from mistakes, do you?

my thoughts exactly

 

would make an interesting video nonetheless to see what failed

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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RIP 780 Classy. You weren't even used.

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I think the biggest mistake in this video is Linus carelessly wiping mineral oil on his clothing... IMO anything you dunk electronically in mineral oil is automatically garbage.

 

Also what video did 5:12 come from? I remember it I don't remember the video... the editor forgot to mention it in the video :P

 

If I was Max I would of dragged @CPotter or someone else telling them it's as easy as point and shoot xD Because it got weird fast.

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Disappointing. I've been looking for a new grey bin and can't find any reviews anywhere. 

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HA! YOUR BSOD DIDNT SCARE ME AS I WAS WATCHING ON MY IPAD!

 

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$1000 for a mineral oil tank seems a bit much... It's a bunch of acrylic. Cut in on that fancy laser cutter?

Anyways if someone wants one I've got a spare one that I'm not using. Dunking components in oil is scary.

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29 minutes ago, JMY1000 said:

$1000 for a mineral oil tank seems a bit much... It's a bunch of acrylic. Cut in on that fancy laser cutter?

Anyways if someone wants one I've got a spare one that I'm not using. Dunking components in oil is scary.

Just use a fish tank fam ?????

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On 2/22/2018 at 2:14 PM, nicklmg said:

Buy EVGA video cards
Amazon: http://geni.us/9G24
Newegg: http://geni.us/PHz83b

 

Buy EVGA motherboards
Amazon: http://geni.us/Q278nz
Newegg: http://geni.us/pBhhp

 

Will our previously oil-cooled video card & motherboard work after all this time?

 

 

Hey Linus I have a780 ti classified and had the same issue and what It could be is the bios needs a reflash but I found that out after baking it. It is still working fine after 4 months of constant use 

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OMG linus you really did not need to kill this :D sorry man that one is on you not the oil (as everyone already knows). Sorry to be repeating what people have said, but you should have given both the graphics card and the motherboard a clean with spirits or even specialized PCB cleaner which is what I use now. So firstly,  the dust collected by the oil can turn into a conductor again had to be washed off and second you killed the graphics card because you did not clean and reapply thermal paste and padding. Now I get to why I came across this video to begin with and why I wanted to make a post about it. I am fairly disappointed about how easily you guys gave up on the whole project. I was hoping to see some more serious overclocking tests and better cooling of the oil to come. I have had my oil cooled rig since like mid 2012. Mobo hasnt changed yet still got my ASUS MAXIMUS IV with i7 2600k. GPU wise, I had 2 X GTX560Ti in it, one of which still works now in another system and the other one went missing. Now I have 2 X GTX780Ti Classy in it (still). I had done a fair bit of experimenting with that system. to get better temps first of all I have better oil cooling and second most important thing is I went to thermal padding. Thermal paste is useless in this situation and you can't go liquid metal because the oil will wash it off onto the PCB, so eventually I got my hands on thermal padding from Fujipoly, but it is hard to find. My oil cooling can cool the oil down to ambient and even below using a pump that can circulate the tanks contents in just about minute to 2 and a radiator with blower fan from a toyota camry climatecontrol system, it's controlled by a thermal relay controller (from chineEbay) so that only runs on demand . Now however I was planning on rebuilding the system. All new components and need to find new thermal padding solution where I was hoping you guys could help with advice, I see coollaboratory  have this liquid metal pad which looks intriguing just without any real data about it besides size and weight. The plan btw is to go subzero on the oil temp as well using an A/C,by directly submerging the evaporator and running the condenser outside. I hope you guys pick on that topic some time again and maybe even make another kool build and hopefully you are not so scared of the oil next time... i recon it was funny how you did the whole thing with the garbage bags and overprotecting everything instead of just going head on like usual :D

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On 2/22/2018 at 1:14 PM, nicklmg said:

Buy EVGA video cards
Amazon: http://geni.us/9G24
Newegg: http://geni.us/PHz83b

 

Buy EVGA motherboards
Amazon: http://geni.us/Q278nz
Newegg: http://geni.us/pBhhp

 

Will our previously oil-cooled video card & motherboard work after all this time?

 

 

 

On 2/22/2018 at 1:14 PM, nicklmg said:

Buy EVGA video cards
Amazon: http://geni.us/9G24
Newegg: http://geni.us/PHz83b

 

Buy EVGA motherboards
Amazon: http://geni.us/Q278nz
Newegg: http://geni.us/pBhhp

 

Will our previously oil-cooled video card & motherboard work after all this time?

 

 

 

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Would be interesting if you tried a fluid designed for this, for example from Engineered Fluids. This is the future of immersion cooling.

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