the other day i thought of something which may be awsome but i have no idea if it will work, if i had a small freezer and i placed 2 rads in there and drilled holes for the tubing to go in then out, and if i fully sealed them holes, will this work, one thing to consider will be the fluid in the rads freezing when the pc is turned off but will antifreeze in the cooling fluid work ?
Crazy idea, will it work ?
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No it wont work. Ive seen it discussed so many times. It simply wont be able to dissipate the heat and will eventually become overwhelmed.
It may work for bench runs it you cool it down as much as possible with just the pump running then start the pc up and bench.
Would be horridly inefficent long term
It may work for bench runs it you cool it down as much as possible with just the pump running then start the pc up and bench.
Would be horridly inefficent long term
i too taught about this before... only with a little can fridge though, i got a fridge of a cousin a few years back, its still sitting under the stairs, i never got around to trying it out, it wouldn't freeze up, but only chill, also talked about an outside rad..but was worried about condensation problems. i suspect both fridge and outside rad could give long them problems. but i would love to try them out.
as with a freezer, wow maybe a bit to far. you could try Ln...or something like a little devils v10 Phase Change sub-zero cooling, at crazy money!
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Edited, read it wrong 
Fill the whole thing with water!!!
Fill the whole thing with water!!!
I can just see a Chest Freezer Pc build.. But imagine having to stop gaming to pull out a bag of peas
rofl
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A friend of mine did this with a mini freezer, but instead of radiators just used copper tubing inside the freezer. Apparently it works quite well.
lol OH MY GOD! that is crazy... i too want to know if this would work, very curious indeed.
if it did work, i wonder what cpu temperatures you'd get
I can just see a Chest Freezer Pc build.. But imagine having to stop gaming to pull out a bag of peas
hahahaahah
LMAOthats a smart idea, i guess you wont have to pay for a rad
try it and do a project log
guess its true, all the ice will be melting once you turn the pc on
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Huge external reservoir, ice maker sat above said res feeding ice cubes constantly into the res. Only you've have to have an overflow system as the ice cubes melted and introduced more water into the system... but then that water could be fed back into the icmaker to make more ice cubes
Only you've have to have an overflow system as the ice cubes melted and introduced more water into the system... but then that water could be fed back into the icmaker to make more ice cubes 
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If you drop your temps in the loop bellow ambient, which you will when the pc is off or idle, you will have to face the problem of condensation inside your PC. This problem can be handled with careful insulation or not very careful application of poly-filler...everywhere.
Surely a phase change cooler will be in the same price range as this project and will work a fair bit better by cutting out the middle man (cutting out radiator and freezer of water).
Surely a phase change cooler will be in the same price range as this project and will work a fair bit better by cutting out the middle man (cutting out radiator and freezer of water).
Huge external reservoir, ice maker sat above said res feeding ice cubes constantly into the res.
even better idea