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Intel Tests Using Mineral Oil to Cool Servers

Posted September 02, 2012 3:47 PM

From DVICE:

It's been done before with an Xbox and now Intel has been testing it. "It" is one of the strangest methods I've ever heard of for cooling down a computer. "It" is dunking said computer in mineral oil.

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Re: Intel Tests Using Mineral Oil to Cool Servers

09/03/2012 11:17 PM

"It" is one of the strangest methods I've ever heard of for cooling down a computer

Mineral oil is a very common insulating liquid in the power industry (high voltage transformer anyone), and seems to scale well to smaller heat sinks and components.

Cooking oil used as a computer coolant, that is the strangest I have heard (that actually worked anyway).

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