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- Oct 11, 1999
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Originally posted by: glugglug
I suspect the exact same thing will happen with most oils, so the oil will have to flow within its own airtight system (or at least not directly on the mobo), just as you do with a water-cooling system - if the oil dissolves dust/dirt from your case, it will no longer be such a good electrical insulator.
Won't happen. The reason why water becomes conductive is because of the dipole nature of the water molecule, each side of the molecule has a slight charge because of it's arrangement. This separates particles into it's ionic compounds and these free ions act as charge carriers for conduction. Oil OTOH, doesn't have this property so contaminants don't create ions, and thus carriers, within the liquid.