Soldato
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This is an idea in the really early stages...
I'm sure you are all familiar with the 6-7 litre mini fridges you can purchase from Argos and the likes. The idea is to somehow integrate the cooling unit into a PC case, with the intention of reducing the internal temperature. Conversely, introduce the cooling unit into the initial part of the airflow into the case, ie. cooler air for the case airflow to work with.
The problems I can see are as follows:
1) Noise? Some of the minifridges use a rather manky fan on a heat exchange to cool the fridge. The effect is supposed to be about 10c-20c cooler than ambient temps. During summer tho, this could be a real advantage to air cooled cases.
2) Heat generated by the cooling unit... I know sounds weird, but most of these systems generate some sort of heat, even if it is just from the power transformer.
3) Insufficient drop in temperature to effectively alter the airflow temp bias. Too much air moving over the "cooling element" and not enough "cool" to make a difference.
The other idea was to use to cooling unit to cool a reservoir of air and then push it over the desired components, either by piping it to say the GPU fan so it is immediately working with cooler air, or to the CPU. Either way, more space but just an idea in the early stages.
The ultimate goal is to reduce the temps without having to buy something like a vapochill or water cooling
I'm sure you are all familiar with the 6-7 litre mini fridges you can purchase from Argos and the likes. The idea is to somehow integrate the cooling unit into a PC case, with the intention of reducing the internal temperature. Conversely, introduce the cooling unit into the initial part of the airflow into the case, ie. cooler air for the case airflow to work with.
The problems I can see are as follows:
1) Noise? Some of the minifridges use a rather manky fan on a heat exchange to cool the fridge. The effect is supposed to be about 10c-20c cooler than ambient temps. During summer tho, this could be a real advantage to air cooled cases.
2) Heat generated by the cooling unit... I know sounds weird, but most of these systems generate some sort of heat, even if it is just from the power transformer.
3) Insufficient drop in temperature to effectively alter the airflow temp bias. Too much air moving over the "cooling element" and not enough "cool" to make a difference.
The other idea was to use to cooling unit to cool a reservoir of air and then push it over the desired components, either by piping it to say the GPU fan so it is immediately working with cooler air, or to the CPU. Either way, more space but just an idea in the early stages.
The ultimate goal is to reduce the temps without having to buy something like a vapochill or water cooling
AAAAAAAAAGHHHH MINI FRIDGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
? Should cool the water down a bit.
