Fridge for a cooler? please read!!

only the radiators would be in the fridge the pc itself would be sitting inside a case how would it get condinsated?

well one day when i get good amounts of money a shall make a youtube video lol

When you get good amounts of money you could just buy a "Phase Change" cooler and save yourself a lot of time and trouble and get much lower temps.

A slight diff than most post on this. Most ask about sticking the PC in the fridge - Not a good idea. You are asking about just using the fidge to cool the coolant. As others have pointed out, you can only dissipate so much heat before overworking the fridge.

If you want to try, one suggestion is that you use one raidiator outsid to first cool the coolant down to room temp, thena rad in the fridge to cool down to sub-ambient temp. Set the fidge setpoint to warmer than normal and take down slowly to find a good point where the fridge is not on 100%. On condensation - You do NOT want this to take place on the pipes going into the computer so need to insulate them. Should not have a condensation problem on the HSF itself. Condensation is more a problem when dewpoint and ambient temperature delta is low.

Just a comment on Relative Humidity. It is a function on Ambient temp, dewpoint and barametric pressure and is a calculated value. Home use RH displays are not really accurate and very by as much as 5% from unit to unit and varies more at the end points..

I actually tried using an air conditioner, the problem is the air conditioner compressor cuts on and off to bring the entire room to a set temperature then cycles on and off continuously going from super cold to barely ambient.

It's a slow process to get the entire room cooled down to the set temperature range and then the compressor shuts off and the air is flowing through the cooling coil until it's heat rises enough to cut the compressor back on.

That on off action is not noticeable in a large room but when it comes to the cooling coils warming up to the point of kicking the compressor back on, that super cold is gone and the airflow is not cool enough to keep the entire cooling sufficient, you would have to override the compressors cut in, and probably freeze the coils and ruin the AC.

From my own experience it seemed like a great idea, but was not a sufficient cooling solution at all.

When it comes to overclocking purposes you need a steady temperature to depend on, your overclocked settings may work at one temp and not work 5c higher, so you need as consistent a temp as possible.

On sticking the rad so that the ac blows on it. A 2nd ary probllem is the delta between on/off cycles in terms of expansion/contraction of parts. would probably see a good 10 c delta.

If he lived in the Artic he could just stick his PC outside the window with a stock air cooler.

i think it will work nicely

you can try this thing too
that is
1. addition of some common salt in freezer's iceing tray and alow it to go below 0'c
2. Put your radiator in this tray and close the fridge (will need to make some hole in door for pipes)
3. You are good to go.

Only thing required is a very good quality fridge.
You can add common salt to your setup too (i.e, in reservoir)

would a normal minifridge even cooldown below 0?

Would it work if he used a SWAMP cooler instead of an AC unit? I personally run (used to run) my swamp cooler all the time in the summer...

Also are you asking this because you are living in a desert like me (Vegas)

hello!
seems like you have bunked your chemistry classes.
a normal fridge can freeze water to ice. right
adding salt to that ice will result in melt down of ice but keeping temp below 0'c

no, i am not talking about freezing salt water, it is only to get more cooling from liquid state of water which is movable

no dnt live in the dessert actually far from it its 21 degrees outside haha,just when i get good amount of money saved i want too build a massive iverkill gaming pc instead of just a hardcore machine , as all massive overkills go you need massive overclocks

it seems ok but when you look at it you dont go HOLY like, with the minerall oil submerged pcs thats something to go holy over. sadly its not much anybetter than air tho

Mineral oil (and oil in general) has less thermal capacity than water...

Why do people get all excited about mineral oil submersion when they don't have any clue how actual watercooling works to begin with? Just because it is even more foreign of a concept to most people, does not make it better.

If that were the case, watercooling people would actually be oil cooling people- we tend to use the best thermal transport solution readily available...which happens to be water.

Please, let the refrigerator/freezer and mineral oil submersion thing go...

You still will need some way of cooling the oil- it will only transfer heat VERY slowly via convection and will easily overheat unless you make strong efforts to move the oil away from heat producing components effectively and then cooling the oil. A few people have done this by basically cooling the oil the same way you would with a watercooling loop- via pump and radiator. However, you have to carefully consider components that aren't effected from contact with oil as o-rings and some plastics degrade very quickly in this type of environment.

lol rice burners to many of them around where i live thinkin there cool with hondas and eclipsses dropped, i get what your saying witch is why i opened the thread. i want it o look good and be powerful as can be such and such a ricerburner to a nissan gtr both looks good but only one will perform good

GT-R isn't in the same category as Honda; it's an actual sports car categorized with Porsche 911, BMW M3, Corvette, Viper, etc. given performance numbers. It's designed to do what it does, from the factory, not after you bolt on Ebay parts for cheap looks.

Let's keep the thread on topic, though.