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Well yeah that icepack one is pretty much what I'm looking to achieve. Need instructions on how to build the pump unit and see if you can buy those shirts anywhere lol.

Just looked at the wattage draw power of the peltier cooler those things are about 140w that might be too much for a battery system to support. More power = more batteries, which = more weight. mhh few things to think about and research anyway, thanks all.

I saw that episode with Adam, that's what gave me 1/2 an idea, but I think he uses an actual mini refrigeration unit with gases, which seems a bit dangerous lol Hopefully a simple water cooled system will still reduce the temperature by a few degrees making it slightly cooler. I looked up the peltier element - saw one with a plate and heatsink ready to go for sale like this. How would I utilize the cold plate in the design? would I still use water pipes and run the tubes over or between 2 of them?

The PVC tubing would be stitched to the inside of the shirt / jacket and have direct / close contact to skin, in a pattern that's favourable to comfort and pipeflow / anti kink design. It wouldn't be another layer it would be the only thing you wear on your top half of your body (you could still wear a sports jacket with nothing underneath (sports bra for women)) Room temperature should still be less then body heat, so you should feel a difference, if average body temp is about 36 degrees and average room temp is say 24 degrees then you should feel a difference., even more so if you are active like dancing or walking/running your body temp will be increased so you should feel even more of an effect. For example if you are dancing in a night club where the room temp is say 28-29 degrees you could go outside / air conditioned room that is say 20-22 degrees, stay there for a bit while the system circulates and cools down then go back and dance. This is something that I'd have to research more as I only have a basic understanding of thermal dynamics It can be yes, but as others have suggested I could fit everything into a backpack design instead to alleviate weight. Thank you this is all brilliant feed back, I want to hear the good and the bad to see if it's ultimately feasible. Like I said before still just an idea, designs can be changed / modified.

It's not as a crazy concept as you make think, water cooled suits already exist for various sports like nascar and other extreme activities, I'm just trying to make one a bit cheaper, still with some functionality and a bit of bling, like I said I was aiming for something you could wear to a rave / festival / nightclub / cosplay to look good and stay comfortable.

I actually had that in mind, cause I could fit the power source in there as well.

Well I was thinking of using a light sports jacket with mesh vents or something similar already designed into it so it's comfy, and went with the res/pump combo so cut down on parts, I don't know how heavy they are but putting on the top of the shoulders or upperarm like someone would have a attached via a sports strap should be ok. The fan and radiator would be a slight challenge, it would be easy enough to make a mount and put it on the upper back so it would just feel like a small backpack.

Yeah this is just pretty much fresh outta my brain and onto paper so early stages of planing, brain storming, and problem finding. Good idea with the parallel tubes and checking the movement of pipes before hand, that's the kinda info I need thanks! I did intend to make it as a raving / dancing shirt to wear at nightclubs and festivals / cosplay so it would be pretty bright and hopefully wont get mistaken for some other device lol ......

Ok hear me out, cause this is a weird idea and I want to know if it will work. I've always wanted to make a water loop cooled shirt to keep you cool when you're out doing stuff / dancing / working out, and I just had a brainwave that I could use PC watercooling gear to accomplish this. Below is a really *rough* sketch of what I want to make. There would be no CPU water block cause I only want the water circulating though the plastic tubes which would be sewn on the inside of the shirt. I should be able to create a mount/platform and attach / mount the Rads and fans either to the front or back of the shirt and have the reservoir pumps mounted on the shoulder or upper arm. Parts I had in mind were 2 x EK Classic 160 SPC PWM D-RGB Pump Reserviors 2 x EK Coolstream PE 120mm Radiator (expensive) / Bykski 120mm Radiator (cheaper) 2 x EK Furious Meltemi PWM 120mm Radiator Fan (expensive) / EK Furious Vardar EVO 120BB 120mm Cooling Fan (cheaper) 3m Corsair Hydro X Series XT SL (10/13mm) PVC Tubing Main thing I need to know is will the pumps be powerful enough to pump water around the tubes? I've separated it into 2 parts for this reason so 1 pump doesn't have to do all the work. As for power I would power this crazy contraption with a high capacity usb power brick in the pocket and get a simple 5v usb to 12v DC converter. Each pump/res combo is rated at 6 W/h and the fans are rated at ~9.5 W/h so that's about 32 W/h, the current battery pack I've got for example is 12000mAh / 44.4Wh so that could power a system for about 1hr, and you can get higher capacity ones as well. So yeah crazy idea or what? will it work? It would look really cool at night with the RGB lights and all.

Performance wise it's going to be fine? I originally opted for the R3 cause it might serve media files for DNLA but just file serving in general.

I don't know anything about Pi's, I have to buy a board and probably do some soldering or something etc too much messing around in my view, I just want to build a PC, that's what I'm used to and comfortable with.

Ok well putting in a A3000G, 2 x 4gb RAM and taking out windows brings in down to $561, which is a lot better. I just used one of their basic templates to start with, so a bit lazy could of done better. And yeah don't really want to go down the Pi route, too much messing around, Ill just stick to PC's

Budget (including currency): As cheap as possible ($AUD) Country: Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Media / File server. OK is this build enough for a basic media server? I intend to take out the 3 3.5" HDD's from my current gaming all in one rig and put them into a small media/file server. Will these specs be enough or should I upgrade anything? will 8gb ram be enough or should I get 16gb? going to use onboard video of the 3200G so shouldn't need a GPU of any sort, not playing games or anything, probably wont even have a monitor cause ill set up remote desktop or something. The extra $99 at the bottom is for my computer store to put it all together + warranty, but I can always do it my self to save a bit of $ but not really fussed, warranty is nice if anything goes wrong I can just take back to store.

I've been using soft pads pretty much all my life, until now I got a CM RGB Hard Surface mat... and I like it a lot! it feels like I have more control over the mouse and it feels a hell of a lot smoother.

That would be cool if you could somehow rig it up so it looks like a normal DVD drive but when you push the eject button the usb plugs comes out automatically on a CD-tray then retreats behind a door.