From what I know, the mineral oil builds are usually more for novelty than utility. Mineral oil isn’t a particularly good heat conductor, and it’s several times harder to push around than air is, so it’s not great for efficient thermals. It’s usually just done as a sort of “lol look at what I could do” build by people who have more money than sense.
Agreed, the only argument for oil immersion cooling is, AFAIK, better energy efficiency which is of course not a real consideration for high end consumer grade hardware. A previous iteration of our national compute cluster was oil immersion cooled but the tradeoffs in maintainability etc. were not even close to sensible so the next iteration went back to regular server racks. And the iteration after that needed the floor space and finally dialed in the end of oily door handles and eerily quiet but oppressively hot server rooms.
The cable is probably routed outside (likely towards the roof) in a humid environment with the indoors end being at a lower pressure. At night, when the air cools, the humid air would condensate and start dripping out
Uhh… Why is there water?
Could also be mineral oil wicking up the cable, there are the absolute madmen who opt for oil immersion cooling their rig
Seems like the water is coming from the left. So the wall not the PC.
This looks like the “switch” or “router” end of the cable, so it could be coming from the PC
Oh man you’re right. Two ethernet cables on the right. So yes it’s coming from the left.
Could be oil from a PC or water from the wall.
Glad you’ve caught up lmao, Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays to you too.
Now back to my spiked eggnog
Yes and happy holidays! My egg nog is not spiked unfortunately but I’ll cheers ya anyway, so cheers! :)
Might not be a PC but a security camera or some other outdoors mounted device
From what I know, the mineral oil builds are usually more for novelty than utility. Mineral oil isn’t a particularly good heat conductor, and it’s several times harder to push around than air is, so it’s not great for efficient thermals. It’s usually just done as a sort of “lol look at what I could do” build by people who have more money than sense.
Agreed, the only argument for oil immersion cooling is, AFAIK, better energy efficiency which is of course not a real consideration for high end consumer grade hardware. A previous iteration of our national compute cluster was oil immersion cooled but the tradeoffs in maintainability etc. were not even close to sensible so the next iteration went back to regular server racks. And the iteration after that needed the floor space and finally dialed in the end of oily door handles and eerily quiet but oppressively hot server rooms.
The cable is probably routed outside (likely towards the roof) in a humid environment with the indoors end being at a lower pressure. At night, when the air cools, the humid air would condensate and start dripping out
Or it’s just routed outside and it’s normal indoor cable. The sun made the cable brittle and the insulation shattered, leading to leaks
Because the network is flooded.
It’s IP.