New way to cool pc?

[Alexinator]

Well, I'm assuming you know how a freezer works.. It's bassicly that, but a bit supped up and has ALL of it's cooling energy/power focused on one little point down a tube which leads to your proc .

It involves a compressor, pressure drops, some R-134a refrigerant, and one **** of an overclock They're cheap too! But hard to find

 

[`Sn!pe651]

phase change system? wtf is that?

Amateur Phase-Change System

 

[Andyf]

Yeah, completely separately, I was thinking about that this morning. In heat exchanger terms, computer systems can afford to be rubbish- even hardcore air HSFs- simply because computers run so hot, all the heat transfer potential is there. The wonderful thing about a phase change system, is of course that the phase change of the refrigerant allows it to be colder than air at the point of heat exchange. Hence that joker having his motherboard out in ambient conditions was pretty stupid.

The same goes for the airconditioner (which is basically a fridge anyway, except it has an air humidifier): having the cold end in a normal computer case is just wasting energy, as all the heat you are taking out of the case is heating up the room, and your fans are just pushing your heated room air back into the case. So it wouldn't be much better than a normal fan system.

 

[veedubfreak]

Ya, i cant wait for the snow to start falling, once it does its usually around 60F in my apt instead of the 80ish it is right now (ya im cheap) so i'll be able to get a lot more out of my quad.

 

[Nukem]

phase change system? wtf is that?

Phase Change - FrozenCPU.com  

 

[san21893]

Nextherm ICS 8200 Full Tower Air Conditioned Computer Case w/o PSU - FrozenCPU.com

Well then I guess that does the opposite of what you'd want.

 

[pinoy3000]

Nextherm ICS 8200 Full Tower Air Conditioned Computer Case w/o PSU - FrozenCPU.com

Well then I guess that does the opposite of what you'd want.

wow i think that case would be sweet. low ambient temps = lower cpu temps = faster overclocking! dust free too since there wont be a need to pumping air using fans, and i bet that AC has a filter so dust will be out and only hot air will be pumped out