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Puget Begins Selling Its Mineral Oil Aquarium PC Kit

Posted 10/29/08 at 03:56:43 PM |  by Andy Salisbury

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The masterminds at Puget Systems have decided to make the most of their extremely popular YouTube video, and offer a DIY kit so that the public can create their own mineral oil-cooled PC. Puget is claiming hat they’ve been using the system featured in their video for over a year now with no hardware issues.

Each kit will come fully loaded with an aquarium tank and cover, motherboard tray and IO panel, power/HDD LED’s, a power switch, SSD hard drive mounting bracket and a power cord with an extension to reach the bottom of the tank. That’s the base model, and it’ll run you $312.50. There’s also a higher end version with a radiator aimed at systems that are packing heavier hardware, such as quad-core CPUs, and any video card higher than an 8800GT. That version will run you $375.

So if you’re not worried about voiding the warranty on every component that you submerge in the liquid, head on over to Puget Systems’ site and pick up a aquarium to sink your hardware into. But keep in mind that once you submerge your hardware there will be no going back. According to Puget, “Mineral oil is very difficult, if not impossible to clean from your components once they are submerged.”

 

Image Credit: Puget Systems

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avatarI guess they unplugged the

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Thu, 2008-10-30 09:58

I guess they unplugged the fans in that PSU befor putting it in that fish tank.

 

Also it would take balls of Iron to put your hand in there while everything is powered up. I know that the mineral oid isn't conductive it's still a liquid and every bone in your body would be screaming at you that you are going to get shocked crapless.

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avatarSo much for Hardcore PC

Submitted by Number Six on Thu, 2008-10-30 09:14

I can hear the investors of Hardcore PC cringe!

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avatarI'd bet they're enjoying a

Submitted by skhills on Thu, 2008-10-30 11:00

I'd bet they're enjoying a good laugh right now.  This kit is nowhere near the Hardcore system in terms of useability.  From the looks of it, most people could piece meal something like this together with a trip to Walmart.

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avatar"Fish-less" tank

Submitted by bloodgain on Thu, 2008-10-30 07:56

Shamelessly borrowed from Dictionary.com:

Aquarium
A*qua"ri*um\, n.
An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in
which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

"aquarium." Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. 30 Oct. 2008. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aquarium>.
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That's not an aquarium.  It's an oil-cooled PC in a cheap excuse for a water-tight case.

I'll be impressed when they can do one with fish swimming around in it!

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avatarComment system

Submitted by bloodgain on Thu, 2008-10-30 07:58

By the way, I'm not sure the formatting on the comments section works quite right.  I've tried everything I can think of to put "returns" in my comments to no avail.  Maybe it's a problem with Firefox on openSUSE 11.0, but I doubt it.

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avatarWow! Looks just like a

Submitted by BroadSide on Wed, 2008-10-29 18:20

Wow! Looks just like a cheap, crappy fish tank. How do they do that?!..

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avatarAre they claiming a hat?

Submitted by brainwins on Wed, 2008-10-29 14:38

Are they claiming a hat? ;)

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