New Cooling Idea

[progbuddy]

How about having a better cooling system. I've thought of an idea. Have a pump connected to a reservoir/radiator outside of the computer (along with a Master Cooler oversized 250 mm fan). Have copper tubing with coolant (probably freon) run over/ between the CPU heatsink, video cards, harddrives, etc. The copper tubing will be almost flat (maximizing cooling ability). As an add-on, have a CPU heatsink with the coolant running in between the slats and have a traditional 60 mm fan (cooler master rocks! lol) to cool the CPU and surrounding hardware.

Any input? Comments?

[GT40_GearHead]

well....
if you just run the freon thru the tubes it wont do anything

you have to compres it until it becomes luquid, and vaporise it in the cpu block and then compres it agayn and so on

[Slug Toy]

you might as well go get a phase change cooler if you want to do that. or you could take apart a fridge and see if you can do something with the cooling mechanism in it.

[DaveW]

you might as well go get a phase change cooler if you want to do that. or you could take apart a fridge and see if you can do something with the cooling mechanism in it.

For the love of god, don't do that. The chemicals are highly dangerous.

-Dave

[simon275]

Heh *tinkers around with screw driver whats that hissing noise*
- pain

Play it safe children dont do fridge.

Yeah phase change cooling is the way to go to bad one of those units is like a $1000 bucks.

[progbuddy]

I just hatched an idea off this idea. Since the CPU generates heat, why not use RV fridge coolant. It uses heat to cool off the refrigerator, without the electricity (fire/heat mechanism could be the CPU).

oops on the heat word lol

[CanaBalistic]

That might just work... Does a cpu give off enough heat to facilitate the cooling action?

[simon275]

I don't think it would give off enough joules of kinetic or heat energy to make this system work.

[The Black Pumpkin]

Would one be able to combine all the heat generating parts of a system into it? Or is it limited to just one heat source.

CPU + GPU, maybe two GPU, NB, hard drive...

[progbuddy]

what about a weaker solution?

[EPYK]

whoa... has ne ever noticed the phase change cooling is alot like how refridgerators and acs work..... hint hint... cheap phase change for you modders

[progbuddy]

I'm thinking of a way to cool the PC from the case (paint,covers,etc).

Help?

[dgrmkrp]

for the ultimate no-moving-parts, inspire yourself on the zalman tnn cases.. and go from that point beyond :) looooots of heatpipes and big heatsinks...

[progbuddy]

omg, an awesome idea. Make a liquid-cooled frame, watertight of course. Have a radiator outside the case in an external "box" attached to the back with the pump. Since metal is good at conducting heat, it will cool the case, in turn, cooling the air inside the case.

[progbuddy]

To add on to the idea above, put in a water block with a condensation absorber. Then, add color to the coolant and run the tubes in and out of the computer (with a couple LEDs to spoof it up). Then put in the ultimate touch - a heart monitor.

beep... beep... beep... beeeeeeeeeeee(wtf:? )eeeeeeeee...