I deep fried my computer, literally!

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I'm not sure which forum to post this, but I just wanted to share one of my stories with you guys . I had recently read a few articles on submersion cooling, where you take your computer and dump it into a tub of non-electrically-conductive oil. It seemed to work really well, and was cheap. So I saw it as a type of poor man's water-cooling.

I bought a large aluminium oven tray and 9 litres of canola oil.



Since I didn't really want to screw up my good computer, I tested it out on an old Pentium II 266 with Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra. I placed the motherboard in the tray, and began pouring canola oil all over it, until it was partially submerged.



And it worked. The computer booted into Windows 98 fine, and I even started up good old Quake 3 and started playing.



But I soon became hungry for a fried snack - and since I had used all the oil in the house I couldn't fry myself anything. Then I had a brilliant idea. Why not use the oil that the computer's in?

I placed an electric stove under the aluminum tray, and turned it to full blast. Soon, the oil reached frying temperature and I dumped a few chips into there. Meanwhile, the computer was still happily chugging along running Quake 3.



Eventually, though, the strain of 120 degrees C ambient temperature and the load of Quake 3 caused the computer to overheat and crash. I rebooted it, and it loaded back into windows. Although Quake 3 still crashed when trying to play. At that point, the chips were ready. I turned off the heat and enjoyed my snack while I waited for the oil to cool so I could use the computer again.



Mmmm... toxicated fries...

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lol that is awesome. Cooking with computers... I don't think I could approve any more.

You are freakin' weird.

Thanks for one of the most entertaining posts I've read in a long time.

you have too much time on your hands, lol. anyhow, how were the fries/chips?

One of a kind... I'll say that much

that would be an awesome HS science project.

good stuff, OP!

wow, this is cool! I am impressed.

Now that was one weird post. I like your shoe collection though.

Originally Posted by Sc4freak

Soon, the oil reached frying temperature and I dumped a few chips into there. Meanwhile, the computer was still happily chugging along running Quake 3.

I hate to always be nay-saying, but those "chips" look suspiciously like french fries.

Darnit. Now I'm going to have to try this over the weekend.

Also, I hope you realize that those fries most likely have a lot of lead in them. You didn't eat them, did you?

Originally Posted by modi123

I hate to always be nay-saying, but those "chips" look suspiciously like french fries.

Bah, I live in Australia. And in Australia, we go by the UK system and call them "chips".

if you where a real man you would eat the chips!

Nice little experiment. bored?

I'm starving...do we have any chips around?

This is front page material if I ever saw it. Nice man....Nice.

This thread has broadened my horizons. Thanks.

This thread makes me waffle.

Awesome stuff, dude!

Imageshack has killed your high res versions

Excellent idea. Let's see this on Hard's front page for pure innovation

What is that in the upper left corner of your second-to-last picture? Looks like a Commodore

Originally Posted by Sc4freak

Bah, I live in Australia. And in Australia, we go by the UK system and call them "chips".

Kiss a koala for me...

~snoogiens~

That’s cool. Did you do any temp comparisons? Air vs. Oil?