Oil Cooling... I will do it. BUT I need some help.

[pendrin2020]

At school My friends and I have managed to scrape together an Abit BE6-II and A P3 @ 550mhz.

Through some unnamed connections I have attained a large quantity of oil primarily used in medical analysis machines. The oil is engineered to flow over PC components without causing interference. We're going to try to submerge the whole board and get the processor speed to double.

I know... I sound like an idiot.

We can do it though. If we cool the oil and pump it directly into the processor heatsink. I think we can disipate enough of the heat to get it to be stable.

First were are going to set up the board in the oil and get the cooling pumps and radiator fans working. After that we'll slowly step up the speeds and find out what the little querks of the setup are. I don't plan on going for a 200mhz FSB until we've experimented for a while so I'm not too worried about the components.

We plan on running:
1)600watt enermax power supply (Had it lying around doing nothing)
2)256mb PC133
3)whichever AGP or PCI video card that is compatible with the board that I can get my mitts on
4)40gig WD hardrive
5)Abit BE6-II mobo
5)Windows XP Pro (It's just more stable than home in my experience)


I just have a few problems to sort out and I was hoping that some of you could enlighten me.

1) Will the Increased FSB cause a PCI graphics card any trouble?
2)What model of PC133 mem should I use? I need one that will handle the overclock.
3)can someone give me a glossary of what the abbreviations of testing programs mean?


My friends and I have only minor expierience in Overclocking and we need to know if There are any soldering, wiring mods that need to be done.

( Aside from removing fans from the components and getting them extended so that they run outside of the oil. Don't want one to burn out trying to move that oil around.)


If anyone can take some time and answer these questions, I would be so grateful.


On another note, We plan to use this experience as a springboard into P4 Overclocking.

By the way, we want it to be stable enough to game on.

Thanks
Pendrin2020

[technobeast]

First welcome to PCTT. I can only wish you luck.
I've had experience with this board and a 600Mhz CPU (if I remember correct it was a Celeron) and was successfully used at 900Mhz - air cooling.
1) The increased FSB multiplier causes a PCI/AGP bus speed increase. Again if I remember correct the mobo didn't have a PCI/AGP lock which allows FSB speed increase not to affect PCI and AGP. And if it has- congrats
2) It's probably a matter of luck on the brand you'll pick. I have PC133 PQI mem at home and it has successfully run at 166 (haven't tried more). TwinMos, etc companies should be able to give you better opportunities for o/c imho

This is what I can post so far. It will be extremely interesting to get every result you receive from the mobo so please keep us updated about it.


oh and.... GOOD LUCK

[RipperRoo]

Wow nice idea, make sure you document every step and take plenty of photo's.

an article about your experiment would be an interesting read - and it goes without saying that you picked the perfect site when you joined as we have a hugh list of affiliates who link to the articles we publish (original articles get 20,000+ reads )

Good luck and Welcome to PcTT!

[pendrin2020]

Got it guys, Thanks!

[pendrin2020]

you guys wouldn't happen to have any ideas about what temperatures the processor would hit with the stock cooling system (no oil), do you?

[technobeast]

43 Degrees Celsuis (that's my guess).

Now seriously.. you cannot expect anyone to have idea about the temperatures. The normal ones at 20Degrees Room temperature would be 35-40 idle and 40-46 Full load imho. But that depends on mobo voltages (slightly higher voltages may increase the temp by a degree or two), CPU series, and I guess several other factors.