Hello all :) Was seeing my temps (nothing to boast of w/o thermal paste) and was casually wondering a hypothetical situation in which the entire mobo is immersed in PURE unionised distilled water. There will be no need to use any fans. Just a decent Heat Sink would do. Think of the power you save and ofc the overclocking you can achieve w/o worrying about about heating issues! The rotary parts like HD, CD ROM Drives can be kept outside....just the cpu and board to be put in water... I know all this is hypothetical and even pure water does conduct but then as I said...hypothetical :) Good Luck and Happy Computing, Kailas Shastry, 2000+ u/c to 1700+, No thermal paste : DDR 256MB 10.2GB Samsung SV1022D

And it will surely remain hypothetical. First of 100% pure destilled water might be very costly and as soon as you did the board into it it will no langer stay 100% pure so you surely get shortages. Second, the water just connecting will not help that much for cooling. You still need a steady supply of cool water streaming along the cpu which is quite difficult inside an open system!

If it was unionised, it would go on strike. <heh> Seriously, why would putting electronics in ANY water help? Even if you somehow waterproofed the motherboard (which would be dang near impossible) and put it in IONIZED water, the amount of water needed to keep it cooler than the air that now cools it would most likely fill or overflow the case it is now in.

i believe some early supercomputers were completely emmersed in liquid hydrogen/helium? if i recall correctly. Mr X

I have read an article about this somewhere ... The people that did it there didn't use water they used some other no-conductive liquid but it worked, so it can be done ... the question is WHY?? lol Zee. AMD Athlon 2800+ barton @ 12.5 X 176 : 2200mhz 512Mb Corsair RAM MSI KT6 Delta mobo Leadtek AGP 6600 gt 128Mb 120Gb Seagate HDD

I think the idea behind this was that 100% pure destilled water should be non conducting. But as I wrote above as soon as you put the mainboard in it the water wouldn't be 100% pure anymore!

Thinking about this ... why don't you just build your PC inside a FREEZER? Sure you would have to be carefull of frost forming on the components ... but it should work. Infact to get around the frost forming you could paint over everythin in a thin layer of varnish (except heatsinks etc) so that even if it did get frosty it wouldn't short out :) Lol utter madness of course .... Zee. AMD Athlon 2800+ barton @ 12.5 X 176 : 2200mhz 512Mb Corsair RAM MSI KT6 Delta mobo Leadtek AGP 6600 gt 128Mb 120Gb Seagate HDD