intriguing mod? or crazy!

[Mr-White]

why stupid though you need to say why? im not messing around im an engineer by trade so like coming up with mods

Because if you bring the water temps down below the ambient room temperature you'll get condensation everywhere and you don't have to be a genius to work out why water in a computer is bad.

If you wanted to do this seriously you'd have to insulate all your hoses with foam, grease up your cpu and cover the mobo in plasti-coat. The compressor would also need to be fairly powerful to work continuously and the condenser would need to be big enough to remove the extra heat you're throwing at it. Also having a fridge on constantly would A. be noisy and B. the compressor would kick out loads of heat.

MW

 

[bigjimmyauk]

why stupid though you need to say why? im not messing around im an engineer by trade so like coming up with mods

What sort of engineer are you

 

[reiyushin]

What sort of engineer are you

TF2

 

[no_1_dave]

This has been asked a billion times.

 

[Scougar]

No.. don't do it. Fridges are not intended to cool this way, and it would be REALLY inefficient.

Look into "peltier's" and other things if you want to cool like that

 

[tigerstyle]

TF2

Thats good

Kudos.

 

[koooowweeee]

I've been waiting for this question ever since this section of the forum was made.

Thought it would be go the first few days tho lol

 

[vectisitch]

maybe get some industrial tubing,say about 3000 miles worth and run it to the north pole,through an ice berg or two then back to your pc.sorted.you will need a big spade though as the tube will have to be buried.lol.only joking .or am i.now wheres me snow shoes

 

[koooowweeee]

maybe get some industrial tubing,say about 3000 miles worth and run it to the north pole,through an ice berg or two then back to your pc.sorted.you will need a big spade though as the tube will have to be buried.lol.only joking .or am i.now wheres me snow shoes

that's a Dam good idea.

We could then have it pump through all our computers i one single loop

What sort of pump would we need? Pond pump?

 

[Scougar]

Basically a fridge isn't gonna be up to the task. Don't waste your time. You can get better alternatives pre-made.

 

[vectisitch]

we could all build a super computer and maybe hack into the pump at the hoover dam.that should be powerful enough.
now the legals.this idea in no way reflects my intention or others to actually hack into the hoover dams pump computer.
don't want the FBI knocking on my door in the night

 

[weird_dave]

No.. don't do it. Fridges are not intended to cool this way, and it would be REALLY inefficient.

Look into "peltier's" and other things if you want to cool like that

Peltiers are far less efficient at transferring heat than phase change.
A 226w peltier consumes about 350w whereas phase change can shift 3 times its power consumption.

 

[Dude]

Quite a few years a go a friend used a freezer with a rad inside , filled the freezer 1/2 full of water & than ran PC.
His setup was insulated for TEC cooling so no problems with condensation , worked fine for a few hours & then all the ice melted & temps were similar to a large res .It's already been said , fridges/freezers just not capable of cooling an active heat source.

 

[3t3P]

aye, part of the reason you shouldn't put a hot turkey in the fridge, they aren't designed to be active heat pumps like a peltier or something designed specifically for the task.

I see what youre saying in that you don't care about this fridge, but I wouln't bother personally...

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

maybe get some industrial tubing,say about 3000 miles worth and run it to the north pole,through an ice berg or two then back to your pc.sorted.you will need a big spade though as the tube will have to be buried.lol.only joking .or am i.now wheres me snow shoes

Your line of thought isn't that crazy. Server farms are being built in northern countries now that electricity is getting dear.

Regarding water cooling burying a big loop of copper tubing a few metres underground in the garden would be viable with 4-6 12v pumps in series. It would certainly be cheaper than running a water chiller. The only problem is drilling holes in the wall...

 

[malfunkshun]

take the TEC out of the minifridge and use that in a res

 

[ian54]

If I had a mini fridge sitting around I'd be tempted to use it as a SFF case.

 

[weird_dave]

Regarding water cooling burying a big loop of copper tubing a few metres underground in the garden would be viable with 4-6 12v pumps in series. It would certainly be cheaper than running a water chiller. The only problem is drilling holes in the wall...

I'd use 1 central heating pump or possibly a pond pump, but not 12v stuff.
I'm curious as to why 4-6 of them? :s

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

4-6 is just a rough guestimate. Pumping water from 2 metres below ground to the 1st floor through several metres of copper tubing and long lengths of PVC tubing along with waterblock restriction will take a lot of power. In addition, scaled up versions of the 12v pumps aren't available except for ridiculously loud caravan pumps.

BTW D5 varios are used as central heating pumps.

 

[weird_dave]

4-6 is just a rough guestimate. Pumping water from 2 metres below ground to the 1st floor through several metres of copper tubing and long lengths of PVC tubing along with waterblock restriction will take a lot of power. In addition, scaled up versions of the 12v pumps aren't available except for ridiculously loud caravan pumps.

BTW D5 varios are used as central heating pumps.

Ah, I see. But, you don't need to pump the water at any head at all and you could use wider PVC to get you to the garden and parallel copper tubing.
Now, who's gonna try it first