ICastFist comments on Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category — card hits 2,202 MHz, takes top six Fire Strike scores

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For some reason, I'm reminded of using mineral oil for computer cooling. As in, you just leave the entire thing submerged in mineral oil

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did some robotic submarine stuff in college. One of the techniques for waterproofing was put the electronics in a open at the top box and fill it with oil that was heavier than water. Messy but it worked.

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[–] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's absolutely genius. It's like something out of troll science. "We soak it in heavier liquid to keep liquid out". I'm a little awestruck.

It'd probably stand up to pressure when deeper under water better than most other options too.

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah you didn't have a risk of pressure popping the seal and flooding the electronics. Also if there was a leak in the box you knew about it before you put it in the water.

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[–] coriza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There was as scene in Halt and Catch Fire with this technique. If I recall they where testing the hardware or software for a new 16MH CPU but it had not arrived yet so they overclocked a 8MH instead in the meanwhile.

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[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You'd still want induced flow for better heat transfer though

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