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Water may be better at transferring heat, but there is the slightly undesirable effect that it shorts out your electronics and causes corrosion. Don't try this
by biot 15y ago
Water may be better at transferring heat, but there is the slightly undesirable effect that it shorts out your electronics and causes corrosion.
Don't try this using water: http://youtu.be/PtufuXLvOok?t=2m10s http://youtu.be/PtufuXLvOok?t=2m10s
- chadgeidel 15y agoAlthough I can't watch the video at work - I assume it's one of the many videos where the entire motherboard is submerged in mineral oil. Certainly that's the case, and it's why overclockers have been trying this for over a decade. It's just a problem with moving the heat away from a very concentrated area of the die. As lutorm observed, the viscosity (combined with the inability to transfer heat quickly) ends up preventing an efficient mineral oil based cooling solution.