Distilled water submerged pc

I did it in 2008.
I said that in one of my previous posts last year I think...
I used mineral oil.A lots of it lol...
 
I don't know about distilled water but I know you can use Mineral Oil. De-ionized water will also work but I heard that it will ionize after like 5 minutes when it's by the computer for some reason and short out the components.
 
SpringWater said:
Has anyone ever attempted that? I talked to a chemist and he said that it's actually possible, but it's very hard.
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In theory it is possible, I use to work on distilled plants on ships back when I was in the Navy. Distilled water literally has nothing in it so essentially possible but the problem you run into at the end it is water so bacteria will start to grow in the case. You would literally need to be in a sterile room and have sterilized every component of the computer. Then seal it, to much work and like said above by others I would imagine certain types of oil would be more beneficial. Not to mention oil has a higher boiling point, water's boiling point is 212 degrees whereas mineral oil depending on the kind has a boiling point anywhere from 424 to 1,189 degrees.

As stated that would be cool but impractical, at least when I look at it from a logical stand point.
 
The reason why I would use water instead of oil is because water is a way better heat conductor. If I added a device that would suck the water out, cool it, and then dump it back in I would get better temps than if I used oil. The only problem is, like stated before, that water gets contaminated very quickly as compared to oil. It's not actually the bacteria that are the main problem, but the ions from the air that would make the water conductive again. I think I might attempt doing it just for fun, I'm thinking of using an older gaming rig, just in case things go bad. Probably something like a core 2 duo paired up with 4gb of ram and something along the lines of a gtx 280. If I do get into it and want to post my progress on the forum which section should I use?
 
The thing is only certain components really need to be liquid cooled, like the processor, video card, chipset, RAM, etc. You're much better off with traditional liquid cooling.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but while distilled water is technically possible to be used to submerge a PC, each component would have to have no impurities on it that would leak into the water, otherwise the water is no longer pure.
 
WRXGuy1 said:
The thing is only certain components really need to be liquid cooled, like the processor, video card, chipset, RAM, etc. You're much better off with traditional liquid cooling.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but while distilled water is technically possible to be used to submerge a PC, each component would have to have no impurities on it that would leak into the water, otherwise the water is no longer pure.
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You are totally right, and I would have to use Deionized water which is even more pure than distilled water. Also, I see what you mean by traditional water cooling being more effective, but the only reason why I want to build the computer is for the looks :D
 
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