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I know.. aint it great!?!?!? Besides, MilchstrabeStern said he had a laptop that he uses primarily. Experimenting with something new can be fun. So what if it turns out it dont work. 8 or 10 years ago water cooling was on the bleeding edge. Many thought it was a bad idea and many more had EPIC failures.
Sure, maybe it aint the best idea for your primary pc, but if someone wantd to tinker around with building a second pc, I say "come big or go home".
But Oil submersion is nothing new...
It's been around for more than a decade, and since then, there has really been no evolution in it's use. It's just not practical.
8-10 years ago, water cooling wasn't even an industry, the few people who experimented with it used aquarium pumps and car heatercores with homemade water blocks, I don' know about you, but that is most certainly not my definition of "Bleeding Edge". Nowadays there are numerous companies that exclusively make water cooling products and do a **** fine job of it.
Some of the problems with an oil submersion cooled pc include:
Computer weighs too much to move, it coats all your parts in oil, you have to change the oil as it gets dirty, need to be careful not to spill, once the oil becomes hot, it's nearly impossible to cool it down again, and to cool it, your basically running a water cooling loop, so what the point?
And the majority of these problems are impossible to solve to the point of making oil cooling practical, so why bother?
Also I believe the phrase your looking for is "Go big or go home".