Fridge cooled CPU

[swanysto]

So I am sure this has been done before, but my google search came up negative.

I would like to put the radiator of a watercooling setup in a mini fridge. Then I would like to run the tubes out of the fridge and into my case and over my CPU block. I figure water at 38F would cool my CPU a lot better than ambient temp water.

Does anyone know where I could find a log or tutorial of someone who has done this? I have an idea, but I would like to know exactly how they sealed the holes where the tube goes, and if there are any dangers to this setup, etc. etc.

Thanks

 

[RoBo]

I don't think the fridge will have the requied cooling capacity.

 

[Dethman]

ive never used watercooling, but just an educated guess mixed my uber fridge expierance waiting for beer to cool

It takes a while! the water just passes threw the radiator right? so that is like what, a few seconds in the fridge?....I would say, get like a strong pump, longer tubing, and put it in the freezer, and then the resovour in the fridge, ...that should cool it down

 

[Nettwerk]

I think the problem is the heat from the radiator goes nowhere inside the little fridge so thats why people take and rip the units apart and just put the cold coils in water with the radiator.

 

[swanysto]

Umm..wouldn't the radiator get very chilly being inside a refrigerator? The fan would be blowing 36F air onto the metal radiator. The water would pass over the near freezing cold(as opposed to a ambient temp radiator) and thus become colder than it would in a normal setting. Not to mention I could also put the reservoir in there, like stated, and start the loop with cold water.

This is all hypothetical, but logically, I don't see why there wouldn't be a huge difference over keeping the radiator in an ambient temp room.

 

[FallenMystic]

Kind of a guess here but I would almost think that you would be better suited to put the rad outside the fridge and run some lines into the fridge to a res, this way you've got a large volume of water sitting there longer than a small volume of water passing through.

Or another thought would be put a copper spiral inside the fridge to act as a heat leach, (ala a still.)

Biggest problem you'll reach would be is the water in the fridge long enough to make a difference and if you continuously add warm water to it will it offset the cooling power of the fridge thus detracting from the thermal dissipation ability.

My advice…turn it into a keg-o-rator… you’ll get much more legs out of that.

 

[Arcygenical]

This has been brought up time and time again... And I'll say exactly what I say all the time:

"Apples, Cheese and beer don't produce heat. Computer components do."

What do I mean by this? I mean that your radiator will *constantly* be dumping at least 150w of heat into a fridge designed to remove only a tiny amount of heat, slowly.

This will cause the fridge to run at maximum for weeks (drawing obscene amounts of power) until the refridgeration unit burns out, and you're SOL.

 

[Cobalt2112]

And your wife or mom will kick your a$$ for it. Unless they were looking for a good excuse to get a nice side-by-side/freezer at bottom unit.

 

[Manbearpig]

This has been brought up time and time again... And I'll say exactly what I say all the time:

"Apples, Cheese and beer don't produce heat. Computer components do."

What do I mean by this? I mean that your radiator will *constantly* be dumping at least 150w of heat into a fridge designed to remove only a tiny amount of heat, slowly.

This will cause the fridge to run at maximum for weeks (drawing obscene amounts of power) until the refridgeration unit burns out, and you're SOL.

This man speaks the truth. My relative needed to buy a new $2000 refrigerator because his oven was right next to his fridge. The hotter the fridge is, the more energy the fridge needs to put out thus resulting in a really confused thermostat. The thermostat had thick sheets of ice on it while the fridge was relatively warm.