Newbie question: Cooling with oil?
 

Hi everybody.

I just need anybodys oppinion before I'll start the resarch for my new hobby: I intend to buy a small deep-freezer, fill it up with fine oil and thereafter I will throw my old Pentium III 450 MhZ down there. I have been looking at some deep-freezers that actually was made for autocampers, and they proclame that they can reach -25 celcius after have been turned on a cupple of days.

My logic tells me that oil won't have any effect on the electricity (This project would not have been possible with water)and I can't see any problems about my cpu should work fine down there.

Now, I am a totally newbee (have just signed up here today), I'm only imagining things now, haven't actually tried even a small overclock. Does anybody here think that it might work? At -25 celcius, what cpu-frequenze do you think I can reach by doing this? Is there an absolute maximum I can reach with my Pentium III 450 MhZ?

It looks to be a great site, this. I will probably stick around here in the future.

Regards from David.

Hello. I thought of this before, and then I was told that it was a bad idea because the freezer wouldn't be able to handle cooling that much heat, all the time, and that the freezer would simply not work after a few days. They aren't designed to cool a heated substance 24/7, so sure, you'd have the -30C or whatever you were talking about the first time you used it, but the temperatures would steadily increase, and then soon enough, you'd have a broken freezer, a system covered in oil, and possibly a fried system at that from the increase in heat.

many people have used Mineral Oil for coolant. I personally think its a bad idea, but many people have used it successfully. Its thermal properties are just a bit worse than water.

the freezer wont keep up with the heat, it's only made to keep things cold that are not makeing heat. as for oil ? best make sure it's 100% nonconductive. :)