Awesome instant cooler spray for $7

[fuzzba11]

I saw some stuff on the shelf at Radioshack the other day, called "Component Cooler" or something. Obviously, being the obsessive cooler I am, I picked it up, and it says it's used to cool electronic equipment below freezing! Sweet! It also says it leaves no residue and "May cause frostbite"!!! So I had to have it :D Especially for only $6.99! Took it home and tried it out on a pair of scissors to test, then on my heatsink, outside my system(which isn't working) and you spray it on and everything gets coated in a white frosty substance, which almost instantly evapourates, leaving your heatsink REALLY cold!!
I was going to wait until I got my system up and running to share this so I could show some concrete temps, but I can't hold this knowledge anymore without sharing! So head down to Radioshack and see if yours carries it! This stuff is so awesome I want to find a way to attatch the cans to my case so I can just hit a button for INSTA-cool!! :D Good luck, happy cooling!

[Über~PhLuBB]

YOu can do the same exact thing with a can of compressed air, and canned air is cheaper (2 x 10oz cans for $7).

All you have to do it turn the canned air upside down, and spray that way... try it. But watch your skin.

[JaY_III]

What use would that be though?
the only use i could see for using that would be for flash overclocking.... i dont imagine you are going to be spraying your heatsink with that stuff every few seconds you are using your PC.

[ALENGOSVIG1]

eheh, i used to play with that stuff. but what use could this be in overclocking?

im from vancouver too jay. what part are you from?

[JaY_III]

Coquitlam, you?

[ALENGOSVIG1]

North Vancouver. i drive by Coquitlam all the time.

[N3D2000]

whats the use? some times your need below freezing temps to post or start up and then the comp runs fine.

[The Overclocker]

if you use that you might crack your cpu, because of the temprature change

[WyrmMaster]

Something i have been thinking about along those same lines, but im not sure how to implement it, is to use a water mister. Set it up so that it keeps the surface of the heatsink wet, then the evaporation will keep the heatsink cool, and therefore cool the CPU. Any ideas.

[N3D2000]

waterproof your mobo

[wildbilly2k]

well i was reading this post ad i saw that a can of air will make things cooler so i started spraying some on my cpu and i was running at 54c my temps went down to 47c with a can of air. this would work to just get your comp to post.

[N3D2000]

exactly what I was thinking, invert the can of air and lett 'er rip untill you feel it is cold enough, switch on comp.

[CrystalMethod]

Condensation? Anyone?
Waterproof the MB all you want, but the pins of your CPU can't be insulated.

[fuzzba11]

The stuff evapourates almost instantly in non-moving air...I think it should come off pretty quick when you have 38 cfm of air moving over the area...I just thought it would be a good fix for cooling down a CPU under stress, like almost instantly take your load temp down from a 44 to a 35, and then it has to slowly heat up again.

Hey...I'm going to try squirt some of this stuff underwater, see what happens, might be a really good way to fix a warm water resevoir for you water coolers out there...