my idea of vapochill

[ThePCmanWAnnaB]

hey
i wanna share an idea that it may sound crazy and it may need some changes or maybe someone to hit me on the head and yell am i stupid or what?.here it comes...
can a pc be build inside of one of those small coolers they are selling everywhere?
can i use that cooler system and make it fit in my pc somehow?
and my last question....
if somehow i make it fit in my pc would the heat from my lga775 and the cool from the cooler produce water and damege my pc?(sorry if i dont use the right words ,my english is limited).
if someone does this it will not cost as much money as the real vapochill.

 

[Geomagick]

What I can sort of make out here is that you want to put a PC in a fridge/freezer.

Condensation would be major problem with either setup unless the air was dried and then a hermetic seal used.

The real Vapochill, which I use cools to much lower temps -45C compared to -18C of domestic freezer.

If you are referring to the Vapochill System cooler it is really just a ducted air con unit, but despite being smallish has a high cooling capacity.

Also remember a Vapochill LS removes 200W of heat. A beer cooler might only remove a few watts, possibly a dozen or 2 but no more.

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/valia11.html

a real VapoChill? Are other vapor phase systems just sour imitations?

 

[iamtrout]

The coolers that are sold everywhere (the ones that don't freeze) use peltier systems, not condensers like the vapochill. Those are really weak, and probably wouldn't do much along the lines of supercooling a computer.

I guess you could build a cube computer and stick that in a cooler and it'll probably help a bit.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

this idea has been beaten to DEATH in these forums over the last coupel years. Yes it is possible, no it will not condensate on teh cpu as condesation comes from something cold condensing teh water in the air not something hot. Heat evaporates not condenses. I am not saying that condensation will not be a problem in other places though. All in all it is not a very good idea, no offence. There are two feasable ways of getting these tempuratures:
1. Get a real vapor compression system
2. build a water cooling setup with the water lines running to adn from a small fridge/freezer. (this is where condesation comes into play)

 

[ThePCmanWAnnaB]

how about putting a regular water cooling system and then putting the radiator and fan inside a portable cooler(the ones kmart sell for the car )?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: ThePCmanWAnnaB
how about putting a regular water cooling system and then putting the radiator and fan inside a portable cooler(the ones kmart sell for the car )?

Its more feasable to just put a pelt with a heatsink on the resevoir.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Originally posted by: ThePCmanWAnnaB
how about putting a regular water cooling system and then putting the radiator and fan inside a portable cooler(the ones kmart sell for the car )?

Its more feasable to just put a pelt with a heatsink on the resevoir.

not really. putting a peltier on a resevior leaves too many things out. First of all you will be increasing ambient case tempurates, second the cold from the pelt will have to travel through the plastic or metal that makes up teh resevior. It is very inecfficient.

As for putting the radiator and fan inside one of hte the cheap drink coolers from k-mart, they are not desdigned to disipate heat, just keep things cool. If you got one of the those small fridges like from home depot for $50 and ran your tubing to a radiator and maybe a fan(thought i need to do some tests to see if the fan is even necessary) in the frexer compartment you woudl be much much better off.