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MINI refirgertor Case???

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urbanlegend786

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so my sister came back from collage last year and she brought back home her mini refrigerator...it got me thinking if it possible to mod it a littlebit and be able to put a whole computer inside there.....anyway if i do will i even need any fans blowing of the proccesor or can do i leave it in there bear with nothing over it ......and also it will be one quiet a$$ case........w00t w00t
 
Friend tried it, it didn't work out so well becuase water would build up on the side and ruin his parts.
 
I don't think mini fridges were designed to actively fight heat. It think it would cause the fridges motor to overheat.

I thought it would be cool to put a watercooling radiator inside one of those mini fridges, but I think the mini fridge would die.
 
i had thought of that as well.. building a res inside of a fridge to keep it cooler. havent tried it yet.. plan on it when i go to college next year though.
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
i had thought of that as well.. building a res inside of a fridge to keep it cooler. havent tried it yet.. plan on it when i go to college next year though.
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use that fridge to keep your beverage of choice cool. trying to keep something that is actively producing heat, like your computer's rad, cool will just send that fridge to an early grave.

although, if you like the hard stuff, using a watercooler in conjunction with a 3 litre bottle of vodka, or the like, makes for a great conversation piece (the envy of your fellow students) and means that you pretty much always have cold stuff ready to enjoy.
 
:D how did you know what i was planning.. hehe (course.. i could use a mini freezer (if i could find one) and add some voldka to the water to keep it from freezing, then stash the rest of the voldka in the 0 degree water...... I wonder if that would work...

*thinks that that was what Dashi was suggesting.. but thinks he is too tired to have realized that ahead of time...*
 
Bottom Line : Mini Fridges are not made to aid in computer cooling in any way shape or form. Putting an entire computer in them, a watercooling resevoir, and/or a watercooling radiator all introduce a constant heat source into the fridge that the compressor simply was not designed to handle. Not to mention the simple fact that the gains you will see will be largely insignificant since mini-fridges dont get all that cold.

If you want to chill your water do it the right way and get a small AC unit or something that is designed for a larger load than a mini-fridge.
 
RaphaelVinceti said:
:D how did you know what i was planning.. hehe (course.. i could use a mini freezer (if i could find one) and add some voldka to the water to keep it from freezing, then stash the rest of the voldka in the 0 degree water...... I wonder if that would work...

*thinks that that was what Dashi was suggesting.. but thinks he is too tired to have realized that ahead of time...*
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no, actually.

i was meaning a workplace watercooler, of the sort that normally has a large plastic bottle of water on the top, and a chiller/res inside the stand that will chill the water, such that you can use the spigot to pour yourself a cool paper cup of water to help make it through the work day.

in this variation on the theme, you stick a rubber stopper with a hole in the center, into the mouth of a LARGE bottle of high-percentage liquor, and then put said bottle onto the cooler, such that the spike in the mouth of the cooler, goes into the hole in the stopper.

you can find that kind of stopper at a brewer's supply store.
 
Erasmus354 said:
Bottom Line : Mini Fridges are not made to aid in computer cooling in any way shape or form. Putting an entire computer in them, a watercooling resevoir, and/or a watercooling radiator all introduce a constant heat source into the fridge that the compressor simply was not designed to handle. Not to mention the simple fact that the gains you will see will be largely insignificant since mini-fridges dont get all that cold.

If you want to chill your water do it the right way and get a small AC unit or something that is designed for a larger load than a mini-fridge.
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^ ;)

boiling down to...

consider exactly how much heat a gallon of milk at 70F might hold
and exactly how long it takes to cool it to what 40F? 50F?
thats what minis are about
 
Well not exactly, I have been using a mini fridge freezer circuit that I ripped out of a mini fridge for about 2 years. I submerge the whole freezer floor in a 5 gallon Iglo cooler and I use a 600 gal/hr Mag pump to get the near frozen liquid to my Swiftech water block.

I have a 3500 Venice running at 272x11(2972Mgz at 1.5 volts, stable as can be. Of course you need to waterproof you system as condensation is a daily problem.
 
dennis5452 said:
Well not exactly, I have been using a mini fridge freezer circuit that I ripped out of a mini fridge for about 2 years. I submerge the whole freezer floor in a 5 gallon Iglo cooler and I use a 600 gal/hr Mag pump to get the near frozen liquid to my Swiftech water block.

I have a 3500 Venice running at 272x11(2972Mgz at 1.5 volts, stable as can be. Of course you need to waterproof you system as condensation is a daily problem.
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Pic please. I find those 1/10hp units capable of doing these feats... incredible. What ambient temp are we talking about also on these? :p
 
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