Methods of Creating Cool Air

[Stiganator]

I was wondering what methods exist to create cool air, lets say 0-30 degree F range.

Was thinking of a way to use cold air to cool a rig.

All I can think of is a peltier, but one side would be really hot.

Thoughts?

 

[Stiganator]

In hindsight, 0-30 is probably too low and would cause condensation maybe? Perhaps 40-50 F range is more appropriate.

Could it be possible to rig up a bottled coolant that would flow through some pipes, blow a fan over those pipes and into the rig. That could be pretty quiet I would imagine, but I know nothing of compressed coolants.

 

[Shadowknight]

Buy a vapochill unit. They're made for extreme overclocking.

 

[Stiganator]

I don't want to overclock. I just want a cooled and quiet system. Plus I like DIY things, and the vapochills run like $700.

 

[RallyMaster]

If you want a cool system, just grab a Scythe Ninja for the CPU, a Zalman VF900 for the GPU and a Thermalright HR-05 for the NB. It'll be very quiet. Couple it with a few 120mm fans at 1200RPM and neither you nor your system will complain.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
If you want a cool system, just grab a Scythe Ninja for the CPU, a Zalman VF900 for the GPU and a Thermalright HR-05 for the NB. It'll be very quiet. Couple it with a few 120mm fans at 1200RPM and neither you nor your system will complain.

but that limits you to room temperature.. he wants get air thats cooler than room temperature in his case

 

[JAG87]

yea I am interested in something like this too.

I was thinking of cold packs, you know those you put on when you injure yourself. But those would only last little time, and they are not cheap. So is there anyway to make some kind of cold checmical that you can place in a reservoir and stick inside your case, and hopefully get your case temperature cool enough to throw a few beer in there?

 

[Ayah]

Custom build a phase change unit, perhaps a modification of one of chilly1's creations.

 

[potato28]

Air Conditioner in the room?

 

[mindwreck]

peltier in a sealed computer for below ambient temperatures without condensation?

 

[Running]

air conditionaer is only thing i could think of that is reasonable

 

[aceO07]

If you're not going to OC, then you don't need the computer to run that cold. I can understand keeping the CPU cold to do extreme OC or wanting to keep the system silent, but keeping the CPU COLD without needing to is a new one to me.

One unreasonable way to do it is to route your home cold water pipes into whatever heatsinks you have and back out to the main pipes. It won't be as cold as you want, but it'll be free. Though a HUGE hassle and INSANE. (also the water probably doesn't move until someone uses it)

 

[Stiganator]

well keeping your components cool helps them stay functional longer. I have ninja now and I gotta say its pretty hot. Quiet I guess is more important, but I like to care for my components well, that way they treat me well.

 

[Bobthelost]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
well keeping your components cool helps them stay functional longer. I have ninja now and I gotta say its pretty hot. Quiet I guess is more important, but I like to care for my components well, that way they treat me well.

I think it's a pointless excersise, while dropping the temperature might extend component life at high temperatures you're not going to extend it much by decreasing the ambient too far. Also by the time they start dying you'd save money replacing them compared to any cooling system i can think of.

Options:
1) Fridge. Take a small fridge and put the computer inside.
2) TECs. Take a couple of the massive 120W TECs, run them at about half load (more efficent that way), one side connects to massive heatsink inside sealed box, one to massive heatsink outside sealed box.
3) Some sort of replacable/replenishable coolant.
4) Find a source of constantly running cold water, duct that through a heat exchanger in your computer case.

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
Options:
1) Fridge. Take a small fridge and put the computer inside.

This wont work, a mini-fridge's compressor is only capable of cooling down neutral objects over a long period of time. Put a heat source inside like your computer and that thing will go down without much of a fight.

Originally posted by: Stiganator
well keeping your components cool helps them stay functional longer. I have ninja now and I gotta say its pretty hot. Quiet I guess is more important, but I like to care for my components well, that way they treat me well.

While this is true, its going to be a difference of something breaking in like 10 years vs 8. In the end, are you using anything from an 8 year old computer? a 10 year old computer? The odds of something breaking in a computer is much more likely to be mechanical. (Fans, HDD's etc). Cold computers are really only useful in an OC, to achieve a higher overclock. Otherwise active cooling is going to provide no noticeible difference, and a screw up could make things worse faster.

That being said, the only things that might be useful to cool a computer (as in cool an active load). Phase change such as an air conditioner or Vapochill, or a couple of peltiers attatched to a heatsink as suggested above. Though All these options would be expensive and 100% pointless in the end. Plus if it gets cold inside on a humid day, and you get condensation, your on a much faster route to breaking things than heat.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i just leave my AC on, it helps cool my cpu, and video card and myself in the summer.

 

[SparkyJJO]

AC FTW