Well I took my old man for lunch yesterday for his b-day and we got into a interesting discussion about PC cooling.
He was telling me about a site he saw that had these neat vapochill units that make your PC temps 0c under high load and costing 1000 bucks+ aka the hardcore over clockers toy.
So we started to brain storm of the "cheap mans" unit. Why you ask? Because we love the idea of being cheap skates.
Now the PC we used for the idea is the one I recently fixed for my sister aka a PC we both would know about.
Specs would be this.
Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4ghz single core San Diego (zalman cpu cooler)
256mb PCI-e EVGA 7600GT (Zalman VGA cooler)
Motherboard Nforce 410/430 MCP
160gb SATA HD
4gb PC3200 Ram
Now I know condensation would be the key problem here so we set some guidelines on the fridge unit.
Now the thought was based off a 10 hour day.
Unit would be ran 10 hours per day 50% idle and 50% high loads.
Now to battle condensation this fridge would NEVER be opened again (unless it had to be to fix pc or add something) after you put the PC in and would have the door sealed to help prevent air leaking in.
PC would be put in backwards in the mini fridge to allow you to drill two 2 inch holes through the front for your wires and one 2 inch hole would be for the power supply and drives and would then be sealed as well putting caulk between the wires as well to help air leaking in.
For sake of it we just will use double sided sticky tape the PSU to the fridge door and the dvd drive on the top of the fridge.
Only thoughts we had were would be
1. Could the fridge keep up with the heat generated by the PC.
2. How long would the fridge's cooling last if it ran for 24 hours a day (aka you never turned your PC off)
3. Would turning the PC off for the night generate moister when you booted it back up in the morning.
I don't plan to do this mind you its just a thought we had and thought "what the hell lets see what others thought"
So what do you think...would it work? would it dmg your PC? Or would it just burn the compressor within a week lol.
He was telling me about a site he saw that had these neat vapochill units that make your PC temps 0c under high load and costing 1000 bucks+ aka the hardcore over clockers toy.
So we started to brain storm of the "cheap mans" unit. Why you ask? Because we love the idea of being cheap skates.
Now the PC we used for the idea is the one I recently fixed for my sister aka a PC we both would know about.
Specs would be this.
Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4ghz single core San Diego (zalman cpu cooler)
256mb PCI-e EVGA 7600GT (Zalman VGA cooler)
Motherboard Nforce 410/430 MCP
160gb SATA HD
4gb PC3200 Ram
Now I know condensation would be the key problem here so we set some guidelines on the fridge unit.
Now the thought was based off a 10 hour day.
Unit would be ran 10 hours per day 50% idle and 50% high loads.
Now to battle condensation this fridge would NEVER be opened again (unless it had to be to fix pc or add something) after you put the PC in and would have the door sealed to help prevent air leaking in.
PC would be put in backwards in the mini fridge to allow you to drill two 2 inch holes through the front for your wires and one 2 inch hole would be for the power supply and drives and would then be sealed as well putting caulk between the wires as well to help air leaking in.
For sake of it we just will use double sided sticky tape the PSU to the fridge door and the dvd drive on the top of the fridge.
Only thoughts we had were would be
1. Could the fridge keep up with the heat generated by the PC.
2. How long would the fridge's cooling last if it ran for 24 hours a day (aka you never turned your PC off)
3. Would turning the PC off for the night generate moister when you booted it back up in the morning.
I don't plan to do this mind you its just a thought we had and thought "what the hell lets see what others thought"
So what do you think...would it work? would it dmg your PC? Or would it just burn the compressor within a week lol.