illmatik
07-13-2003, 04:40 PM
I know this idea has been entertained all over, just not sure to these specifics.
I was thinking of building an inline chiller for my hydrocool setup in hopes of adding chipset and gpu blocks and keeping noise down. If this would actually work, I'm considering building one of these to cool several shuttle xpcs (w/ the geforce chipset and barton 2600s) which I may be buying to build a linux cluster.
I've seen a number of these peltier fridges around cheap and a buddy of mine has one in his basement he used to use in his camper I may be able to get for a song. He thinks it uses about 100W and said that it had no problem cooling beers from room temp to ice cold goodness.
I'm entertaining the notion of putting a a resovoir and possibly a small hydor pump into it and running into my hydrocool's loop. I figure cooling the water up to 40 degrees below ambient would be better than the straight air radiated setup.
Then, after more brainstorming, I was thinking, what if I made a whole system contained in such a unit? Like what if I threw in a small res., a sandwiched between some 120mm fans, and the pump in there? The insulation should serve a double purpose in protecting against high room temps, and reducing (possibly) eliminating fan noise.
I figure this would be about a $100 experiment. Do you think its worth a shot?
And what would be better, just to have a large resovoir or a combination of a res and a fancooled radiator to circulate the cool are inside around better? I could prolly run a dual 120mm rad w/a couple of delta fans on a rheobus. If the temps actually do go down to 40F, thats a pretty good amount of cool energy to use considering the 90 odd degrees my hydrocool is reading now (and its a mild day)
I know a mini fridge would be better than a thermoelectric (plus I wouldnt have to get up for beer!!), but I know condensation would become an issue and these tec fridges are a better size and actually look like computers (some of em).
Any thoughts?
-Joe
I was thinking of building an inline chiller for my hydrocool setup in hopes of adding chipset and gpu blocks and keeping noise down. If this would actually work, I'm considering building one of these to cool several shuttle xpcs (w/ the geforce chipset and barton 2600s) which I may be buying to build a linux cluster.
I've seen a number of these peltier fridges around cheap and a buddy of mine has one in his basement he used to use in his camper I may be able to get for a song. He thinks it uses about 100W and said that it had no problem cooling beers from room temp to ice cold goodness.
I'm entertaining the notion of putting a a resovoir and possibly a small hydor pump into it and running into my hydrocool's loop. I figure cooling the water up to 40 degrees below ambient would be better than the straight air radiated setup.
Then, after more brainstorming, I was thinking, what if I made a whole system contained in such a unit? Like what if I threw in a small res., a sandwiched between some 120mm fans, and the pump in there? The insulation should serve a double purpose in protecting against high room temps, and reducing (possibly) eliminating fan noise.
I figure this would be about a $100 experiment. Do you think its worth a shot?
And what would be better, just to have a large resovoir or a combination of a res and a fancooled radiator to circulate the cool are inside around better? I could prolly run a dual 120mm rad w/a couple of delta fans on a rheobus. If the temps actually do go down to 40F, thats a pretty good amount of cool energy to use considering the 90 odd degrees my hydrocool is reading now (and its a mild day)
I know a mini fridge would be better than a thermoelectric (plus I wouldnt have to get up for beer!!), but I know condensation would become an issue and these tec fridges are a better size and actually look like computers (some of em).
Any thoughts?
-Joe