IDEA: PC in a fridge.

Omaeka

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I'm not even joking. :p

I'm not too wise at this kind of thing, but I think it would be possible to build a PC inside some sort of fridge, and of course there are the issues of condensation and residue. That's why you could incase it in glass, with a tube, or series of tubes that connect from the container the PC is in up to the top of the fridge to allow for breathing (so it doesn't microwave itself inside its protective casing). I have no idea if this is the place for it, or if there even is a place for suggesting things like this. The idea started as a joke between me and a friend, but with a little thinking we decided it might actually be plausible! Not that I expect anyone to do this, nor will I be doing it myself (I weep at the thought of even swapping motherboards) but meh, I may aswell put it here for a laugh/serious discussion, most likely the former! :p
 
How so? So long as there is somewhere for the heat to escape without letting the damaging effects a fridge could produce effect the PC, it should be okay right? I'm talking a big fridge here, not something that's going to be making much contact with the hot casing, there would have to be a lot of space between the fridge walls and the case walls.


djshauny1 said:
try it :P
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I'd rather eat a fridge, ty. :p
 
Fridge is designed to bring the ambient temperature down to a few degrees - trying to displace 200+ watt of heat will as Biffa said possibly burn out the compressor at worst and just end up saturated at best unable to bring temps down more than a couple of degrees.
 
Be the same, you need to have something specifically designed, the compressor would probably trip on thermal overload plus you really need direct cooling.
 
Well the more conventional means of cooling, which are absolutely necessary for higher end rigs, I would never use. I would never liquid cool as there have been numerous cases of the liquid escaping and scrapyarding the hardware, and I wouldn't use nitro for the same reason I wouldn't keep a block of C4 in my pantry. I'm surprised there aren't things available which are similar in design to a fridge/freezer for PC's. I doubt this is the first time something like this has been thought of.
 
Biffa said:
Fridge would burn out
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This, most fridges aren't built to constantly cool themselves down. That's why it's insulated so it keeps cold until the temperature rises (as you open the door letting heat in).


Even if you did get a fridge that is built for this sort of thing, what a waste. Not in the cost of the fridge but in the running cost of it :)

You'd be using just as much power or more as another PC trying to keep it cool, very inefficient.
 
Omaeka said:
Well the more conventional means of cooling, which are absolutely necessary for higher end rigs, I would never use. I would never liquid cool as there have been numerous cases of the liquid escaping and scrapyarding the hardware, and I wouldn't use nitro for the same reason I wouldn't keep a block of C4 in my pantry. I'm surprised there aren't things available which are similar in design to a fridge/freezer for PC's. I doubt this is the first time something like this has been thought of.
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It isn't common because it is a daft idea :p Like air bags in a shopping trolly or sand paper toilet roll, both are entirely possible but why would you wipe your crack with sand paper? It would not only be unpleasant but it's more expensive than bog roll!
 
Omaeka said:
I'm surprised there aren't things available which are similar in design to a fridge/freezer for PC's. I doubt this is the first time something like this has been thought of.
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Phase or peltier based systems exist and aren't that rare as such, once your talking LN2 tho you have all sorts of issues to deal with... condensation would be just as much of an issue with these kind of systems if not more so than a possible leak with watercooling.
 
Oh it's this idea again! I've missed you, old friend.

Do a search for fridge pc or something and you'll see hoe many times it has been asked and the sort of replies it always gets :p

Zefan.

:Edit: Why is this even in this section...? Did overclocking and cooling not fit the bill?
 
I was thinking along the lines of something like this but not for single pc's We have some blade servers at work and they must kick out an insane amount of heat if you could somehow get that heat away in a nice copper tube you could then use the said copper tube to provide heat to other areas of the building rather simply as long as you returned the cool water to the other side of the system rather like a water cooling loop works now just on a larger scale. There must be billions wasted on energy needlessly to run servers and then cool said servers that could potentialy be used elsewhere. Imagine a load of showers for example next to the data centre all running on the heat generated from the data centre. hmmm, I even remember read somewhere they were going to heat a swimming pool using the waste heat from the local crematorium.
 
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You want a cold computer without bothering with water cooling or adding freon to the inside of your rig, then buy air conditioning. :)

Most of the people in here run their rigs 100x harder than anyone else in this entire forum, you think if there was a cheap and easy way to keep our kit cool we wouldn't have thought of it by now?

I've run just about everything you can think of and probably run some of the hottest kit here, and I am coming to the conclusion that the best way to keep a rig cool is either silly expensive (air conditioning) or a water chller. Which is probably where I am leaning towards.
 
Slade2 said:
I was thinking along the lines of something like this but not for single pc's We have some blade servers at work and they must kick out an insane amount of heat if you could somehow get that heat away in a nice copper tube you could then use the said copper tube to provide heat to other areas of the building rather simply as long as you returned the cool water to the other side of the system rather like a water cooling loop works now just on a larger scale. There must be billions wasted on energy needlessly to run servers and then cool said servers that could potentialy be used elsewhere. Imagine a load of showers for example next to the data centre all running on the heat generated from the data centre. hmmm, I even remember read somewhere they were going to heat a swimming pool using the waste heat from the local crematorium.
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This is a brilliant idea, considering heat is such a valuable resource (most in winter), its a wonder why less people recycle it, rather than just letting it escape into the atmosphere.

Biffa said:
You want a cold computer without bothering with water cooling or adding freon to the inside of your rig, then buy air conditioning. :)

Most of the people in here run their rigs 100x harder than anyone else in this entire forum, you think if there was a cheap and easy way to keep our kit cool we wouldn't have thought of it by now?

I've run just about everything you can think of and probably run some of the hottest kit here, and I am coming to the conclusion that the best way to keep a rig cool is either silly expensive (air conditioning) or a water chller. Which is probably where I am leaning towards.
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Surely though, what is the issue with something like this: ?

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PhilthyPhil said:
Because it is a crazy idea and this is the craziest section on the forum :D
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