Ice Packs!

MadKowDZsMadKowDZs U.S.A.
edited November 2003 in Hardware
Nothing cools down my computer like ice packs!
All you need to do is prop the tower up on blocks, then slip some ice packs underneath, with a fan blowing the air up and voila! Instant cooler.

Yes... I know it's quite genius.

So, now you may... :respect:

Comments

  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2003
    Moisture=bad
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    only if it condenses somewhere ;)

    and i think he's talking about those blue squishy things...no moisture from those.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Well it's defintely ghetto but I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon.

    I'd be more inclined to prop my 'puter on the window sill while being open, the cold has officially landed in Ottawa as of lastnight. :grumble:
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    shwaip had this to say
    only if it condenses somewhere ;)

    and i think he's talking about those blue squishy things...no moisture from those.

    If the meateria is colder than the ambient temperature, you will always have condensation. Hold an icecube in your hand and see.
    Then take a cube outside with negative temps (c) and compare. Can't argue with physics.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    unless he gets more than a cm of water in the bottom of his case doing this, i doubt it's a big deal :d
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited November 2003
    TBonZ, I heard that.
  • MadKowDZsMadKowDZs U.S.A.
    edited November 2003
    D'oh! I was attempting to be facetious. It seems my quest to find a person with a sense of humor on the world wide web is a preposterous venture. Honestly, if anybody would actually take the time to prop their computer up onto blocks, just to put ice packs underneath must be a bit absurd!
  • InfidelInfidel Germany
    edited November 2003
    The problem is: There probably are people who WOULD try this ;)

    Infidel
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    MadKowDZs had this to say
    D'oh! I was attempting to be facetious. It seems my quest to find a person with a sense of humor on the world wide web is a preposterous venture. Honestly, if anybody would actually take the time to prop their computer up onto blocks, just to put ice packs underneath must be a bit absurd!

    If this thread was in the pub, i would have taken it as a joke. Posting it here in cooling, and the fact that i doesn't know you that well, i HAVE to take it seriously. After this, i probably won't take you serious at all. ;D
  • MadKowDZsMadKowDZs U.S.A.
    edited November 2003
    Ah! I appears the tables have turned. I have become a product of my own frivolous bantering.

    Of course, I assumed that writting the ending phrase "So, now you may... :respect: " was enough to convince the people of the fallacious nature of the post.

    I will now propose a solution to the problem of "taking me seriously," and Mackanz, you might want to read this...

    Alright, here goes...
    If I make a post that is meant in a humorous way then I will place smily faces in that post (i.e. :p ). Therefore if my post has no smilies, then it is to be taken seriously.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    hmm... i will not be taking your above post seriously :d
  • MadKowDZsMadKowDZs U.S.A.
    edited November 2003
    Technicality correction.
    If the smilies are in parenthesis () or qutations " ", the post is to be taken seriously.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I held a brick of dry ice near the front intake of my dual MP for a little while, then the block evaporated. When someone sends you cheesecake in the mail, what else are you supposed to do with the dry ice? Besides drop it in the toilet and close the lid...

    -drasnor :fold:
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited November 2003
    You dont need to worry about condensation while using that ice pack idea (I know you were kidding) if you just buy a de-humidifyer at a garage sale for $15.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Umm, drasnor, ... you didn't hold it up with your bare hands, I hope! :eek:

    MadKow: If you understand the origins of S-M (back in the old Apushardware and Icrontic days, Ghetto hardware modding was almost a sport around the forum!) then you'd understand why you were taken seriously at first! ;)
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I miss teh ghetto Hardware
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Why... what happened to your computer? :D
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Actually, in Africa they use moist air to cool. The relative humidity is so low that the case inside is well within spec for numidity. Water falls down, cool air forced up by fan. That is for those palces in Africa with large and relaible generators, in mostr cases. those without use Burlap dipped in water hung over one open side of case,literally, for field computer desktop use.

    Depends on RELATIVE humidity and how much cooling you get versus how much humidty at component location. Yes, can and has been done. A\C'd and well sealed structures can be 10-15% humidity without moisturizing, and Arizona and Africa can be similar many times, as can desert areas where moisturizing feels cooler in a climate where the sweat evaporates so fast your skin is dry all the time and a gallon to two of water a day is minimal intake for a non-life-acclimated human in that area for business reasons or such. So dry that skin needs moisturizing cream for those folks not born and bred there, also-- eyes need things like Refresh Liquigel 5-8 times day also, I have friends who have doen missionary work over there and they still correspond on the web with folks over there (African end uses CELL access for web surfing for the majority, some cities use Satellite uplinking).What we would think of as Web Cafes or kiosks are more common over there proportionately than direct connected users, as LOTS of Cell use is NOT microwave relayed, it is Satellite phones.

    BTW, this post is literally true, those with electrcial power in abundance put the computers in refrigerators that self-defrost(costs MUCH less to cool a smaller cubic area than a large one when you have to truck in fuelk for many hundereds of miles many places in the world's dry zone).. Those are in the VAST minority, but refrigerators do use the fact that liquid grabs more heat than vapor, take Thrax's article about submerging electronics in cooled and non-electrolitic LIQUID for example.

    John-- who knows places where moisture cooling in NECESSARY to not have what we would consider fast boxes die in less than a day. But in aplace where humidity is 50%-60%, for get moisture cooling, it is built into the air flow (fine-particle water vapor grabs more heat than dry air).
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I actually did do this for about 5 seconds holding the brick in an oven mitt. I tossed it into the toilet afterwards, which surprised the next person to use the bathroom (fog coming out of bowl).

    -drasnor :fold:
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Ageek had this to say
    Actually, in Africa they use moist air to cool. The relative humidity is so low that the case inside is well within spec for numidity. Water falls down, cool air forced up by fan. That is for those palces in Africa with large and relaible generators, in mostr cases. those without use Burlap dipped in water hung over one open side of case,literally, for field computer desktop use.

    Depends on RELATIVE humidity and how much cooling you get versus how much humidty at component location. Yes, can and has been done. A\C'd and well sealed structures can be 10-15% humidity without moisturizing, and Arizona and Africa can be similar many times, as can desert areas where moisturizing feels cooler in a climate where the sweat evaporates so fast your skin is dry all the time and a gallon to two of water a day is minimal intake for a non-life-acclimated human in that area for business reasons or such. So dry that skin needs moisturizing cream for those folks not born and bred there, also-- eyes need things like Refresh Liquigel 5-8 times day also, I have friends who have doen missionary work over there and they still correspond on the web with folks over there (African end uses CELL access for web surfing for the majority, some cities use Satellite uplinking).What we would think of as Web Cafes or kiosks are more common over there proportionately than direct connected users, as LOTS of Cell use is NOT microwave relayed, it is Satellite phones.

    BTW, this post is literally true, those with electrcial power in abundance put the computers in refrigerators that self-defrost(costs MUCH less to cool a smaller cubic area than a large one when you have to truck in fuelk for many hundereds of miles many places in the world's dry zone).. Those are in the VAST minority, but refrigerators do use the fact that liquid grabs more heat than vapor, take Thrax's article about submerging electronics in cooled and non-electrolitic LIQUID for example.

    John-- who knows places where moisture cooling in NECESSARY to not have what we would consider fast boxes die in less than a day. But in aplace where humidity is 50%-60%, for get moisture cooling, it is built into the air flow (fine-particle water vapor grabs more heat than dry air).

    ;D
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