cooling the reserator even more

GnomeWizardd

I have the zalman reserator and ive been thinking of a mini fridge for my room to set next to my comp desk anyways to store Mountain dew. I am thinking of getting the next size bigger and modding to to put the reserator in it. Whats your guys take on that?

Thrax

10/1 says the reserator spends more heat than a minifridge is capable of cooling.

You must remember, it is easy to cool a liquid, because it's only warm once. Same goes for any food, really. Once cool, it's easy to keep cool because it's not actively trying to heat up again..

The reserator on the other hand has in excess of 140w of heat pouring off of it at all times.

GnomeWizardd

I think this mini fride is more than big enough to cool it my problem I was thinking is if the water was too cold and hit the water blocks on my cpu and vid card the temp difference would be too much and thus condensation would form

Geeky1

Thrax is right. Even without condensation, it won't work.

Mt_Goat

Plain and simple; Thrax and Geeky are 100% correct! Any thing but a large full size fridge won't work (some of those are marginal at best too). They simply don't have enough cooling capacity. If you read the manual for them, it recomends only putting food already cooled in them to keep the temp down. You would be better off putting it in front of a big fan.

muddocktor

These guys aren't steering you wrong, Gnome. I just bought my daughter a mini fridge for her room, one that stands about 3 1/2-4 ft tall and it doesn't have enough cooling capacity for what you need. It doesn't even keep ice cream hard in the freezer section.

Armo

im not exactly sur of the website or the exact mod, but i recall a guy that modded a mini fridge with coils upon coils of thin copper tubing to supply his stuff with cold water, and u know its much easier to cool a bit of water in a tube compared to alot of "standing" *( not quite sure the type you have ) water, a puddle of water heats up alot quicker in the sun than a pool does, so i suspect the opposite would hold true

Straight_Man

GnomeWizardd wrote:

I think this mini fride is more than big enough to cool it my problem I was thinking is if the water was too cold and hit the water blocks on my cpu and vid card the temp difference would be too much and thus condensation would form

You would almost have to have the reserator in the fridge, yes, but you can control fridge temp to a degree if you get a GOOD mini-fridge, just high enough to prevent condensation. Or use a non-condensing coolant and metal tubing or TYVEK tubing, run the coolant through the FRIDGE tubing matrix. Then you would have a fridge that kept the Mountain Dew luke warm and cooled the coolant some with the average inexpensive baby fridge.

Essentially you want the tubing and compressor or vacuum pump (which of those depends on chemcical composition of coolant used, and water will not get better for cooling much without condensation, pressure tubing insulated with closed cell foam in the computer, and the cooling system itself of a fridge but NOT using the fridge as secondary cooling source-- instead run the coolant for computer THROUGH the fridge cooling system, and regulate temp of coolant by cycling compressor on and off using a sensing of temp inside tubing in computer.

Fridge as secondary cooler not good, but fridge-like cooling system as PRIMARY cooler maybe worth trying.

Armo

i found it

http://www.overclockers.com/tips798/

Mt_Goat

Now I've seen a lot of things but.....Overclock your fridge to cool your overclocked CPU.

Missileman

O/C is a disease. Probably be cured by a new folded protein ? Then of course we have to fold a protein to cure folding. Terrible dillema

Mt_Goat

Missileman wrote:

O/C is a disease. Probably be cured by a new folded protein ? Then of course we have to fold a protein to cure folding. Terrible dillema

Of course this leads to more O/C'ing so we can find the cure as quick as possible.

yagga

yep yep

Tex

I tried the mini-fridge. I switched to a smallish chest freezer and was running -20 to -30 degrees but had HUGE probs with condensation.

Look into a inline chiller of some sort instead. one made from a copper block with peltiers or whatever to just knock a few degrees off without the noise. My freezer made enough noise that you kill the advantage of the zalman in the first place.

If your going for a few more degrees drop without condensation thats really the practical and noiseless way to go. If your shooting for sub zero then thats another story.

Tex