Air cooling...Literally!

[Kaej]

Would it be possible to cool the air that flows into and over the components and HSFs in a case? If watercooling uses air to take heat away from water, is there a way to take heat away from air in a similar way?

This at first SOUNDS like a stupid idea but think about it. Water cooling can only account for certain components in the case. At the very most it will cater for the CPU, GPU, GPU memory, HDDs and RAM and chipset, maybe with a few mosfets. But that still leaves voltage converters, the whole of the motherboard and every other component in the case.

By cooling the air going in you can effectively cool every corner, nook, cranny and component inside the PC. Effective exhausting would be essential (now thats alliteration kids!) but this would be air-con for the case.

Any thoughts?

[Razors Edge]

Its called an exhuast fan, Blows out the hot air from the back of the case.

[jreffy]

Would it be possible to cool the air that flows into and over the components and HSFs in a case? If watercooling uses air to take heat away from water, is there a way to take heat away from air in a similar way?

This at first SOUNDS like a stupid idea but think about it. Water cooling can only account for certain components in the case. At the very most it will cater for the CPU, GPU, GPU memory, HDDs and RAM and chipset, maybe with a few mosfets. But that still leaves voltage converters, the whole of the motherboard and every other component in the case.

By cooling the air going in you can effectively cool every corner, nook, cranny and component inside the PC. Effective exhausting would be essential (now thats alliteration kids!) but this would be air-con for the case.

Any thoughts?

This is easy enough to do. Basically you just need to set up a pump and radiator at your INTAKE fans, not your exhaust fans. Then you also have to make sure that your fluid inside your radiator is colder than the air coming in. This is basically what an air conditioner does. You'd just need a special coolant (like freon) inside your pump and radiator.

[Kaej]

Its called an exhuast fan, Blows out the hot air from the back of the case.

If you read what i said you'd see that i was on about the intake fans bringing in cold air. Talking somewhere in the region of sub 10 degrees Celsius.

Freon sounds good but that stuff is usually kept for refridgerating systems.

What if you could set up a phase change cooler to attach to the CPU W/Block of a watercooling system with a radiator that has an intake fan on it? The liquid in the W/C would have to have or at least be completely made of anti-freeze to prevent the liquid freezing in the CPU WB and blocking the flow of water.

Thoughts?

[Razors Edge]

I skimmed through it )

[progbuddy]

Try a 1/2 mix of coolant and water. Or you could try a compressor/decompressor method, but that would take up a LOT of wattage.

[progbuddy]

I have a full tower case for anyone that needs one.

[progbuddy]

Or you could try 1/3 all the way around (antifreeze, water, and coolant). This is basically what a car engine cooling system works off of.

[Omega]

Or you could try 1/3 all the way around (antifreeze, water, and coolant). This is basically what a car engine cooling system works off of.

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Coolant is any form of liquid used to cool, not anything specific. Coolant can be water, Coolant can be Antifreeze, Coolant can be both. Coolant can even be soda, urine, anything liquid used to cool something down.

Cars should run about 50% Antifreeze and 50% Distilled Water.

[progbuddy]

Actually, some of the newer Japanese cars (Honda) use actual Cooling liquid in thier solution for the newer cars because of higher engine heat output in the newer engines