Just read the Mini Fridge thread....Will this work on Air?

[Sir. BOBSONATOR]

What if, i, with my normal joe-smchmo stock cooling (all on air), put all my parts in the mini fridge?

Seems like it would work, since there is no water cooling here,

suggestions? Cause i really want to try this out!!!

Thanks for the Replies.

[Strida]

Still wouldn't work... Air inside fridge would get chilled, then you would turn the computer on and then everything would heat up in the fridge. It wouldn't be able to keep up.

[Sir. BOBSONATOR]

Still wouldn't work... Air inside fridge would get chilled, then you would turn the computer on and then everything would heat up in the fridge. It wouldn't be able to keep up.

Are you shure?

so it will change the ambient temperature?

[Strida]

Here's a scenario:

You start up the fridge, let it cool everything (including the air inside it) down to 10C or so (not sure how cold minifriges get!).

You start your computer, and it is immediately cooled well by the chilled air around it.

The computer (processor, graphics, motherboard chipset, etc.) heat up the air trapped inside the minifridge as the minifridge struggles to cool it but there's a problem: The minifridge was never designed to constantly remove that much heat and it can't keep up.

The air inside the minifridge slowly heats up and will continue to do so until your computer crashes.

To put it simply: The fridge can't handle (read remove) the amount of heat dumped into the air (which is trapped inside the fridge) by the computer.

[Sir. BOBSONATOR]

Thanks for the analysis. Im off to try it now.








Jk. lol. back to the drawing board...

[Time4aMassiveOC]

it would take roughly a half hour for the processor to put out what the minifridge is capable of cooling in a 24 hour period. however if you take the evap (the part that gets cold) and submerge it into your water cooling resevoir then the heat transfer rate would vastly improve and if the cooling unit of the minifridge is a high quality one then you can cool your system with the chilled liquid.

however an airconditioner would be cheaper and made to run constantly. and would be able to cool it better for your money if you did the same thing with the evap

[Layback Bear]

You best have a backup power supply. If the power goes off you will have rain with out a backup power supply to keep the frig working.