septoid2 said:Seems as though the only people here educated in the fine art of Chemistry is BennyV and Flanker.
The idea would work, you guys think since the computer is hotter then its surroundings cold air is going to condense onto the case and the inner components, which makes sense, thats how frost is formed. So basically, yeah, the computer would have a layer of frost surrounding it
Ways you can avoid that. You can put your computer in a closed apparatus INSIDE the freezer to reduce chances of hardware failure (although I'm not too sure hardware would fail due to frost formation). There will still be condensation however minimal, most of the condensation would form around the apparatus, like a box or something.
Um, thanks for the comment, but condensation happens when an object is COLDER than its surroundings, not HOTTER. If it was hotter, then condensation would be forming on my motherboard right now because I can bet you that its hotter than the air around it. When you use LN2, you cool the motherboard and CPU to below room temperature, and when the hotter air in the surroundings comes into contact with cold components, it loses molecular energy and chances into a liquid (condensation).
I have some new reasoning. I just put a temp monitor in my freezer. It read 3*F, thats -16.1*C. And yet...there is no frost in there. My reasoning? NO H20 in there. I say that all th water vapor in there already froze and theres no more left in the air. What I'm thinking is if you put the PC in the freezer with the side taken off (and turn it off), the water vapor would escape from the case and freeze. Then, you could turn on the PC without any chance of water vapor damaging it. Since condensation wasn't an issue, the only danger to the PC would have been from water vapor that got on the components and shorted them out. Since we got all that, the only thing you're going to be getting is -10*C temps.