Could this thingy replace a radiator and be more effective?

[Quaky]

http://www.coolworks.simplenet.com/ilwc.htm
I saw it on a site Vimal showed me. It looks very interesting because it uses 240/110 VAC and is easy to install.

Any comment's or does anybody knows of a better inline water chiller?

[Monaco]

I tried something like this with an office water cooler. It worked for a while but the heat from the CPU eventually overcame the refrigeration unit inside. It's designed to keep water cool against room temperature, not against 75+watts of CPU heat. Sans rad, my rig overheats the water in 15 minutes. With the cooler it took 20 minutes. That link looks a bit more powerful than the cooler I used, however.

I'll bet your idea would rock if you used a radiator as well as the chiller.

.02c

[Quaky]

How about an inline cooler for a soda machine, for coke and stuff like that. I got the idea in a fastfood restaurant, you know, the stuff that mixes water and powder to coke. I think you can tamper a bit with stuff like that until it's more efective.

Any ideas?

[Badger]

Originally posted by Quaky
http://www.coolworks.simplenet.com/ilwc.htm
I saw it on a site Vimal showed me. It looks very interesting because it uses 240/110 VAC and is easy to install.

Any comment's or does anybody knows of a better inline water chiller?

The specification on the site says it can deliver 2 Gallons of chilled water a DAY, compare that to the 100 Gallons plus an HOUR a typical water pump pushes and you can see you would have a water shortage problem.
Nice thought though.

[mudguts]

Their area code was nearby so I gave them a call and spoke to a friendly guy there named Brian. He was very helpful and pointed out that their "iceprobe" (http://www.coolworks.simplenet.com/iceprobe.htm) would be better suited to our needs as a chiller. It can be easily mounted in a plastic reservoir with the probe immersed in the coolant. It runs on 12V DC@5.5amps and comes with a neat little ac adapter but can also be purchased with just bare leads for 69 bucks. It is easily mounted by just drilling a 1 1/4 hole and tightening the included locknut. I plan on doing some before and after tests and will definitely post my results in the cooling section when Im done. :D

[johns linux box]

the specks still say a little over 2 gallons a day for the ice pick

[Badger]

Originally posted by mudguts
Their area code was nearby so I gave them a call and spoke to a friendly guy there named Brian. He was very helpful and pointed out that their "iceprobe" (http://www.coolworks.simplenet.com/iceprobe.htm) would be better suited to our needs as a chiller. It can be easily mounted in a plastic reservoir with the probe immersed in the coolant. It runs on 12V DC@5.5amps and comes with a neat little ac adapter but can also be purchased with just bare leads for 69 bucks. It is easily mounted by just drilling a 1 1/4 hole and tightening the included locknut. I plan on doing some before and after tests and will definitely post my results in the cooling section when Im done. :D

That still wont give you enough cooling, 5.5W*12V=66W as it uses a TEC (peltier) the actual cooling it supplies will only be 40-50W. Fast AMD's put out more heat than this (80W+) and if your using a peltier on your cpu you would need to deal with maybe 300W of heat. May drop your temps a degree or two if you use a radiator as well but don't try to use it instead of the rad or you could use two or 3 of the things that may work.

[Patchmaster]

Looks to me like the IceProbe is little more than a peltier with a heat sink on one side and a giant thermal reservoir on the other.