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Published: 2009-12-16 09:41:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 4653; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 99
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EDIT:This is now finished!! See the finished version here:
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and here:
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This is the MK-I immersion PC I built for a university project. I had problems with the second hand hardware and had to scratch together some ancient hardware. At the time of writing it is running a quad core processor and 8800GTS video card. As pictured it is using a crusty old PIII LOL!
OS: Ubuntu Karmic Koala on an 8Gb USB stick, with XBMC installed for media duties. Media is stored on a remote portable drive.
Works well and am working on MKII at the moment. Yeah I know it looks like garbage but it was a rush job for uni.
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With the right oil level, it's 100% silent! The operating system is on a USB thumb drive so no hard drive ramp-up noise or anything.
There's easier and cheaper media systems now (namely the Western Digital media system) but they are nowhere near as cool or interesting I think
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Pure silence is worth the extra alone, the neat factor is a bonus.
Have you tested how hot the oil gets? I've heard these things can actually trap heat during really long runs.
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Yes, the final version will run an oil cooler, I just haven't had the time to finish it as yet. Without the cooler it sits at 43 deg C all day except for the middle of summer where it will get up to 50 and trip an alarm after a couple of hours. With the cooler it should happily sit at a few degrees above ambient all day long.
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Is it going to be a passive cooler to maintain the zero noise pollution? If so, that is going to be one awesome box.
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it'll use an aquarium pump submerged in the oil to circulate it. Beacuse it doesn't need to pump onto the surface water for aeration like a fish tank it should still be dead quiet.
when I'm back from holidays I'll be able to finish it!
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It's a medical oil called Ondina15. It has a high flash point and good electrical properties.
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