anybody tried this ???

eX&TriC · 11-08-2001, 07:00 PM

- fluorcarbon -
the name is : Fluorinert variant FC 43
it is manufactured by 3M and is used to
cool supercomputers etc.

- no electrical conductivity
- no corrosion
- higher thermal conductivity than H20

if you want you can just put your case
(ecl HD/DD) in a fishtank filled with
this stuff.

Don't know a price, still looking

just a thought for the ultimate cooling

greetz

DivideByZero · 11-08-2001, 07:24 PM

Yes, it has been done. I remember seeing several experiments where this one guy modified a foam cooler to house a barebones setup submerged in the stuff. Then he went using dry ice pellets and a waterblock with liquid nitrogen cooling. Had some pretty good results, but the price definately puts it out of reach of most people... Flourinert is something like $500 a gallon. Here are the links to the Flourinert projects. They seem to be down for me but then again I am at work and a lot of things on the 'Net don't work right from here...
http://www.octools.com/articles/subm...ubmersion.html

AND
http://www.octools.com/articles/subm...bmersion2.html

11-08-2001, 07:00 PM	#1
eX&TriC Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Belgium (center of the universe) Posts: 51	anybody tried this ??? - fluorcarbon - the name is : Fluorinert variant FC 43 it is manufactured by 3M and is used to cool supercomputers etc. - no electrical conductivity - no corrosion - higher thermal conductivity than H20 if you want you can just put your case (ecl HD/DD) in a fishtank filled with this stuff. Don't know a price, still looking just a thought for the ultimate cooling greetz __________________ P4 1.8A @ 2.4 - 256MB PC1066 - GF4 355/780 Peltchilled-

11-08-2001, 07:24 PM	#2
DivideByZero Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 6	Yes, it has been done. I remember seeing several experiments where this one guy modified a foam cooler to house a barebones setup submerged in the stuff. Then he went using dry ice pellets and a waterblock with liquid nitrogen cooling. Had some pretty good results, but the price definately puts it out of reach of most people... Flourinert is something like $500 a gallon. Here are the links to the Flourinert projects. They seem to be down for me but then again I am at work and a lot of things on the 'Net don't work right from here... http://www.octools.com/articles/subm...ubmersion.html AND http://www.octools.com/articles/subm...bmersion2.html __________________ WARNING: Module REALITY.SYS caused a General Protection Fault in USER.EXE. Reboot Universe? (Y/N)

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