...Is that safe?! 0_o

Yeah it's safe, it's not water it's industrial transformer oil.

o-o It's a bunch of hardware drowned in water and red cool-aid! D:

Why is nothing plugged in? XD

It is all plugged in and fully working. I just put some extra ram, processor and HDD I had in for decoration.

Beautiful work! That took a lot of time to get right, and to look right, I'm sure.

Thanks, it did take a while but it's still not quite complete. I just need to sort the lighting out and i may upload a video of it running and put the link up top.

Ohh, gotcha, that's what confused me.

I've seen these aquarium rigs before, and I've always wondered... wouldn't they eventually get really hot? I know the oil keeps it cooled, but since oil doesn't circulate like air would through a regular air-cooled tower, wouldn't the oil just keep getting warmer and warmer over time? Or is there not enough in the rig itself that'd put off that much heat?

Good question. Last time I took the temp it was holding at a steady 30 degrees C. Since it has such a large surface area it's able to maintain this temp indefinitely. The actual HDD tho which sits upon a ledge under the black cover gets very very hot and needs additional cooling. (it cant be submerged due to the fact the oil would seep in and slow the internal platters down)

Yeah, since it's a server it doesn't have a GPU does it? That'd really heat things up extra in a box like this. I wouldn't turn the fan on the CPU on either, since the resistance of the oil would slow it down and could burn out the fan's motor.

Oh i keep the CPU fan on =D Its nice watching it spin round slowly.

A Youtube vid I saw with a fishtank PC had one of those aquarium bubblers stuck in it for effect XD

yeah my original tank had an aerator in it. Unfortunately they don't help cool it down like i thought it would and the pump is kinda noisy so i left it out of this design.

Maybe you should get one of those little divers with the treasure chest that has the lid that bubbles open XD

Does that actually work? o_O

If you get a SSHD you can submerge it.

this is obseen , i like it.

I suppose putting a fish in there is out of the question?