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welcome to a crazy you know rig sort of feature showcase honestly this was one of the things about slicks resume that really popped out at me because he actually put this on his resume he was like one of a computer that's lik oil-cooled and I was like okay I guess and so I had to talk to this guy of course right because who puts that on a resume I was like I really hope this is a custom resume I hope you don't like apply for a job at like a car dealership and you're like I have an oil cooled computer because they'd be like okay well is like for cars and stuff no we're not talking motor oil we're talking mineral oil so this is slicks oil cooled machine which is actually still running after all this time so this is back when a 780i i qx60 708 gigs of corsair dominator what the heck is this stuff 8500 memory so this is somehow he managed on a 780i board to get four dims working by some freaking miracle is the thing overclocks to a little bit yeah a little bit exactly because that's not an easy feat I can tell you guys that much GeForce GTX 260 you see you can see the DD C or DD C plus up and what it is is some kind of pump going on in there you can also see he's got like seriously this thing is old school that legit hardware checkers up hx6 20 modules applied with all of the casing stripped off so even the fan is gone however you can see from the tubing coming in here that he's got the fresh coolant coming in near the power supply so I think he recognizes that the power supply would be one of the more disastrous things to go wrong in a mineral oil cooled computer so one of the questions that a lot of people have about oil cooling is why does this work and not water because you always hear people say well deionized water is non-conductive and it is but the difference is that the ionized water is also very aggressive in picking up ions from metal that is placed in it so whether it's an heatsink or whether it's a copper you know exposed portion of a PCB or whatever else the case may be that distilled or deionized water is going to pick up ions like that and it'll probably short out within about ten or fifteen minutes whereas mineral oil is much more inert and is much easier to have running on a long-term basis so this has been running pretty much non-stop other than an incident where there was some kind of a party at the dorm that he was staying in and someone broke the bottom of it or something along those lines that be refilled other than that it's been running pretty much non-stop all this time now if he had a bigger reservoir he could probably run it without an external radiator but due to the fact that he's using a fairly compact case you guys come here and look at it from the top you can see it's only about an ATX mini tower size case it's actually probably even smaller than that this is more like an M ATX case because the power supply instead of being mounted here or on the bottom is actually just like gano mounted near the memory most cases are not designed this way so what he's done is he's used a quadruple so it's a four by 120 millimeter ghetto sauce radiator album it is a fake radiator so in terms of performance it's going to be darn close to something like a thermal chill quadruple radiator he's got 3/8 inch tubing which by the way is very stiff the mineral oil has some interesting effects on your hardware including stiffening up cables that it can it creeps its way up so it'll stiffen cables stiffen tubing and it can be a bit of a challenge that way now if only solid state drives had been feasible at the time that he built this machine you probably wouldn't have to have a mechanical drive here but you can actually see there's a mechanical hard drive right there hiding under yep hiding under this lip because mechanical hard drives are one of the few components along with optical drives you can see he uses an external optical drive do not sell the fit are you kidding me are one of the few components they cannot run in mineral oil due to the fact that they would just die instantly so uh so yeah you know the oil inside the hard drive would be really bad for the 7200 rpm spinning they would slow down a lot um which is bad so anyway so he went with a hard drive an SSD however could run inside here just fine now speaking of things slowing down in the mineral ah you can see that it is still sort of fan cooled in spite of the fact that there's there's mineral oil going on inside here these fans have slowed down however due to the properties of the mineral oil they actually are not damaged by this I mean they're running in lubricant so it's not the end of the world to have them to have them running submerged like this I'm just trying to see if I've missed anything the decorative plant is fantastic of course and so is his he actually doesn't own a single cooter thing as far as I can tell I mean maybe maybe the girl he's dating you know gave him this um what else does he have that's not like ghetto I mean that's a cool machine like a few years ago but uh okay yeah he loves this keyboard this is a mechanical keyboard it's a duckie he put like you know custom key caps on it okay he's kind of a geek you know that's that's sort of par for the course when it comes to working in this business I think that's pretty much it as far as slicks liquid-cooled mission liquid flow see I kept the habits here oil cooled machine so I hope you guys enjoyed me sharing this with you and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from Oh unboxings reviews and other computer videos although I cannot promise that I'll be doing ones like this very often and for those of you who are inevitably going to post to an oil cooled machine build guide no not gonna happen it's way too much work and the hardware is pretty much fubar by the end of it because he said to dry something to drip dry one of these components out is going to take a matter of weeks we're not talking days we're not talking like you know dust it off we're talking like by the time you can actually use this in an air-cooled environment and not have it just be disgusting and get oil all over everything we're talking week so anyway cool machines lick you know I don't think when he upgrades this to something modern he's probably stick with the oil country he says no but it was fun while it lasted and it was definitely an interesting item on the resume don't forget to subscribe