Dry Box PC

[Darmek]

Hello everyone,

 

    Regarding the LTT overhaul of their chiller, I had previously wondered why, considering their condensation problem, they haven't tried using a Dry Box. The computer being built into the interior of the box with fittings similar to what they used on the chiller to allow passthrough the walls of the box with connects on the inside and out would disallow moisture from entering the enclosure. With the right box you can get to 1% relative humidity or lower. Having the combo of the improved chiller and a near 0 humidity environment would mean maximum cooling with a significantly reduced or non-existent condensation problem, the whole of the system would have to be cooled with loop cooling with potentially a fan inside the box for air flow which would keep accessory components cooled as the entire enclosure is likely to become cold. I feel like they would be able to push the cooling further if this method were used. Any thoughts?

[The_russian]

I think the main reason they didn’t do this is because they use the chiller for different builds. With the chiller they have now, they could hook it up to any system when they want to overclock a new cpu or gpu that comes out. If the system was inside the box, the box would have to be bigger so it would be less portable, and it seems like it would be annoying to replace a component if the whole thing was inside a box.

[Darmek]

Just now, The_russian said:

I think the main reason they didn’t do this is because they use the chiller for different builds. With the chiller they have now, they could hook it up to any system when they want to overclock a new cpu or gpu that comes out. If the system was inside the box, the box would have to be bigger so it would be less portable, and it seems like it would be annoying to replace a component if the whole thing was inside a box.

The dry boxes have doors on the front, and they could fit the box similar to a test bench allowing swaps and with the quick connections they would be able to disconnect and reconnect the chiller from the box as need be. If you're curious what I mean by dry box I have a link in the OP "Dry Box"

[The_russian]

I think I might have misunderstood did you mean have the chiller and the pc both in the dry box, or leave the chiller as it is and put just the pc in the dry box?

[Darmek]

2 minutes ago, The_russian said:

I think I might have misunderstood did you mean have the chiller and the pc both in the dry box, or leave the chiller as it is and put just the pc in the dry box?

Oh just leave the chiller as is, having fittings on the inside and outside of the dry box so tubes could be ran between the chiller and the box.

[The_russian]

1 minute ago, Darmek said:

Oh just leave the chiller as is, having fittings on the inside and outside of the dry box so tubes could be ran between the chiller and the box.

That makes a lot more sense, not sure why I thought you meant having both in the dry box.

[Darmek]

1 minute ago, The_russian said:

That makes a lot more sense, not sure why I thought you meant having both in the dry box.

Yeah that would be a massive setup aha