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Re:The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune... by biot on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @01:23PM (#2755532)
Water may be better at transferring heat, but there is the slightly undesirable effect that it shorts out your electronics and causes corrosion.

Don't try this using water: http://youtu.be/PtufuXLvOok?t=2m10s

Re:The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune... by chadgeidel on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @01:37PM (#2755607)
Although I can't watch the video at work - I assume it's one of the many videos where the entire motherboard is submerged in mineral oil. Certainly that's the case, and it's why overclockers have been trying this for over a decade. It's just a problem with moving the heat away from a very concentrated area of the die. As lutorm observed, the viscosity (combined with the inability to transfer heat quickly) ends up preventing an efficient mineral oil based cooling solution.