I have heard that the whole idea of using a miniature fridge is a perfectly good, and VERY cheap water cooling system...
Yan
Nubius said:You heard wrong. A miniature fridge runs off of water vapor dude....you don't want that going into your computer....beyond that a fridge's motor is meant to stop every now and then...trying to adapt it to a computer would be like having the door open all the time. Someone posted a link to where a guy tried making a refrigerator unit for his CPU and some wiring in the compressor was wrong and blew up and so the refrigerated box he made was useless.....all in all it's not a good idea, nor easy, nor CHEAP for that matter to try and use a mini-fridge
You heard wrong. A firdges compressor can work off of a lot of different gases. The most common gas or chemical used in a fridge is CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) which is totally harmless, next is the poisonus ammonia, then the ozone eating freon gas most commonly used in air conditioners.Check out this: http://home.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator.htm
Even if a fridge were to run on water vapor it wouldn't matter if it made condensation or not because it is contained in a copper coil. Even the fridges that run on CFC will make condensation. Condnsation is aused by a temperature lower than 0 degrees celsius.
If you were to use a fridge to cool your comp your best bet would be to have your rig water cooled and put the radiator inside a fridge. This is very possible if you get a mini-fridge or "dorm room" fridge and drill 2 holes on the side big enough for a plastic tube to fit through then connect your radiator up to the tubes inside the fridge. Then take some "great stuff" or caulk and seal the holes around the tubes. There you go, you have your own vapochill system.
So obviously he was talking about using a fridge as a 'water cooling' solution...does that sound like amonia or CFC? No....... What your suggestions was was to disassemble a fridge and use it's parts to build a water cooling system...that's completely different than putting your computer inside an actual fridge and trying to get it to run like that.miniature fridge is a perfectly good, and VERY cheap water cooling system...
Even if a fridge were to run on water vapor it wouldn't matter if it made condensation or not because it is contained in a copper coil.
Nubius said:No the point of the matter is you won't be able to do it. I've already seen one article where a guy tried this and failed...regardless if you use different gasses a mini refridgerator is not meant for that and the compressor is meant to turn on and off. If you'd like to disprove that theory and build your own by all means go ahead but I'm going to say you will NOT be able to accomplish that.
also if I recall correctly he said
So obviously he was talking about using a fridge as a 'water cooling' solution...does that sound like amonia or CFC? No....... What your suggestions was was to disassemble a fridge and use it's parts to build a water cooling system...that's completely different than putting your computer inside an actual fridge and trying to get it to run like that.
If you've never seen condensation inside your refrigerator on any items then you are crazy and have obviously never seen a refridgerator or something. Not all the water vapor is simply contained within the coil there sonny. You're making it sound like you can throw your computer parts in a fridge and expect no consequences. That is just wrong.
Point is...you try and put your comp in a 'mini-fridge' for a 'cheap water cooling solution' and you will fail miserably.
Your method of putting a water-cooling inside the fridge is just ridiculous and completely destroys the whole point of 'using the fridge as water cooling' as Yon thought possible.
Most 'mini-fridges' will not work off something like freon, amonia or CFC and you know damn well it'd generally be water vapor....Musjunk...you aren't a 13yr old computer genius so don't think it. You know a lot of useful info but that post pretains to nothing besides trying to prove someone wrong in which the ideas portraid are nothing of the original idea ' make a "cheap" water cooling solution with a mini-fridge'........
I NEVER said this!What your suggestions was was to disassemble a fridge and use it's parts to build a water cooling system
Your right I'm 14. But thanks for the compliment, I guess.Musjunk...you aren't a 13yr old computer genius so don't think it. You know a lot of useful info but that post pretains...