anyone tried a PC Air Conditioner ??

[revenant]

I was just reading the latest Think Geek email today... and this caught my eye...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/7a7a/?cpg=25H

I normally had really steered away from these types of things because of size and possible condensation issues, but I was just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with one? If they had any condensation issues? I was thinking, if I put it in one of my middle 5 n 1/4 bays right in front of one of my video card fans, the cooled air could help cool the hot GTXs and then also get sucked into my rad (on top) helping with the coolant temp in my loop... this is just me day-dreaming really... playing with fleeting thoughts. there has to be some down-side to these... other than the fact that it's stark white... anyways... any thought or comments welcome.

PS: Do these types of things use thermoelectric cooling? maybe the core of the turbine is a peltier device of some sort... how the hell do does it work? there's a really el-cheapo version of this one reviewed here, but that's really old... hrm... just trying to figure this thing out... seems "hokey" to me... very much so!

 

[jpmkm]

It's just a fan. It doesn't actually cool the air. There was a thread about this device last week in the case mod forum:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1007438

 

[mrmagoo_83]

Agreed, it looks just like a crossflow fan. There is a PC AC out there that look God awful, and uses a TEC to cool, probably loud as hell.

I have been contimplating a PC AC, based off an idea I had a few years back, but now someone designed it into a case Should have went for it back then.

 

[revenant]

ok - thanks for the responses... so there is no voodoo going on in there... I figured as much.. plus it looks like it fell out of the fugly tree hitting every branch on the way down.