Abstract
In an effort to increase the performance ceiling and reduce the size of modern personal computers especially gaming computers and consequently data centers and supercomputers, mineral oil is proposed as the working fluid to cool the system. Mineral oil operates as an avenue for transmission rather than a liquid heatsink for heat storage, which differentiates this project from traditional mineral oil systems. Using non-conductive liquid as cooling fluid brings many advantages due to its higher convective heat transfer coefficient, which leads to more compact computers, higher speed of data transition, more efficient processors, lower noise levels, and less upkeep costs with respect to data centers. Modeling and simulations are done in NX to gauge temperature expectations; which is the most important limitation when designing and testing a computer before construction. The temperature range was found to be 34°C–50°C in the motherboard and 45°C–67°C in the graphic card. Based on the modeling results, a prototype of the proposed computer is built and tested. Ultimately, this project is trying to open up an avenue through which processor design can be reconsidered.
