Maryland Teen Builds Mineral-Oil Cooled Computer

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i could have sworn i read an article in boot magazine (which became maximum pc eventually), which hasn't been published in over ten years, about this... and it wasn't new then either.
i really don't think this is news worthy, it sounds like its written by his father or aunt... 4 in the united states? umm.. i highly doubt it.

josh of NY 9:48PM May 19, 2011

There are way more than 4 mineral oil cooled rigs in the US.
But this guy probably did a good job. When I built my first PC when I was 12 years old some people didnt think it would work. But it did. And it"s still unnniing today. But some people still didnt belive me. Anyway this guy will probably be really smart when he gets older

Darby of WA 8:26AM October 14, 2010

Gamers have bee building mineral oil cooled rigs for ages. I've personally built 6 for my friends. It's quite simple. If you look up mineral oil on wikipedia you'll see it's been used to cool electronics for ages. I think the first mineral oil cooled rig I saw was maybe 8 years ago. This is nothing new and certainly is not worthy of a news article. It look me literally 25 minutes to assemble the last one I made.

Stevo of PA 8:25PM September 20, 2009

Wow! I remember back when I really did hear about this the first time.
What a crock this kid is getting credit for this.

Staticlag of NE 6:55PM August 07, 2009

So it's apparent that Glorioso didn't come up with this idea on his own, but let's not be too harsh on him. He admits that he looked information about the project online. He doesn't claim to have invented the idea, several of the facts that people have taken issue with are not quotes from Glorioso, and the quote about the CD drive not working sounds more like it goes with the next paragraph.
The fault here lies with the reporter and US News, and the way new gathering and reporting is conducted in our Internet dependent world. Kemp should have done some basic online research on this subject before submitting the article (and/or had a tech-geek read it over), and USN should have done additional research before posting what sounds a lot like a "local interest" story in the "Science" section of an international magazine. Because much news reporting is done through news crawlers other new sources are now picking up this story as "important news" and making Glorioso sound like a pompous idiot, though he's just some kid who's hobby and technical skills caught the eye of the local (small town) paper.
Glorioso didn't write the article, didn't publish it as international science news, and the most egregious statements in the article are not quotes from him, so complain about the reporting not the kid minding his own business working on cool hobbies.

J. Jones of MD 12:17PM June 27, 2009

This article irks me to no end... I hope to goodness someone realizes his renowned project is plagiarism before his praise gets out of hand. Pugetsystems already sells mineral oil cooling kits. There are hundreds of guides online on how to construct one of these PCs. Bellow are links for 5 other mineral oil cooled PCs, dated before this project. I stopped at 5 because it's all the was necessary to prove that the kid's full of crap. I found those 5 in the top 20 hits on google for "mineral oil computer." Also, his knowledge of electronics is obviously very rudimentary; much more so for custom pcs and pc cooling.
"The faster a computer processor runs, the more likely it is to overheat, which can cause its components to melt or catch fire."
"Some people build water-cooled systems for computers, but those can be dangerous, he added."
"Glorioso was able to submerge everything but the computer's power supply..."
"I just wanted to prove it could be done," he said. "Something happened to the CD drive, so I pulled it apart and started going through it."
If he has managed to ignite a processor, he should not be anywhere near a computer. Water cooling is the safest liquid cooling, especially since there are additives that make the cooling solution non-conductive. If the kid doesn't know not to submerge an optical or disk drive, he doesn't have the faintest idea of their inner workings. Finally, the power supply would not be harmed in ANY way if it were submerged; it also happens to be one the PCs greatest sources of heat- so it should be a priority to submerge.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/computer-cooled-with-mineral-oil/
http://www.leetupload.com/tutorials/1337_fleet/
http://www.ultimatecomputers.net/submit_portal/view.php?type=project&id=16
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2155869902477492116

Sir Charles of VA 2:23PM June 22, 2009

This is very old news. The kid likely did nothing but follow an article on a website. I don't see how this could go out as news without the author or editor taking a brief minute to google "mineral oil computer" to find that it's been done long ago.

Aaron of GA 4:48PM June 17, 2009

4 in the nation? thats a bunch of crap...
these really arent that hard to build at all
i built on just recently. and am 19 years old
this kid is getting all kinds of recognition for something that wasnt his idea.
a patent? that would piss a lot of people off...
just stick to doing your hobby, kid, and leave it at that.
when you build a computer being cooled by something that is more difficult... like a liquid that is actually conducive... or something totally off the wall, then i will be impressed...

Not Impressed of TX 4:02AM May 30, 2009

I hope he doesn't get the patent because its not like he came up with this idea its been done before and he probably saw the Puget Systems one in the previous comment. And for someone who says he knows a lot about computers he obviously has no common sense because obviously the CD-ROM and Hard drive(unless you use a Solid State Drive[SSD]) won't work in the mineral oil because they have moving parts that make them work and the viscosity of the mineral oil will slow them down thus ruining perfectly good PC Components.

Craig of MA 11:26PM May 08, 2009