Fridge PC?

[Izaya Orihara]

Then what's the point of putting it in a fridge?

Wut double post after 3 hours? 

[gylmir]

we all know a fridge condensate but only the sides will so the best way to use a pc in a fridge and turn it on is 100% possible and easy to manage.

 

first make sure you mobo is on a stand in the fridge and cover top and sides with a form of hard plastic if their might fall a water drop down it will just flow to the bottom of the fridge.

2nd put at least 2 fans inside aiming at your mobo for moving air in this situation the more fans the better since you create dry air at some point and then your system will have no water inside anymore.

 and last don't turn it on high if you can set it about 15° or higher it is best, and try to not open the fridge every 5 min because that gives moist the chance to enter your case

 

i'm glade to help you

[thedigitalmilk]

we all know a fridge condensate but only the sides will so the best way to use a pc in a fridge and turn it on is 100% possible and easy to manage.

 

first make sure you mobo is on a stand in the fridge and cover top and sides with a form of hard plastic if their might fall a water drop down it will just flow to the bottom of the fridge.

2nd put at least 2 fans inside aiming at your mobo for moving air in this situation the more fans the better since you create dry air at some point and then your system will have no water inside anymore.

 and last don't turn it on high if you can set it about 15° or higher it is best, and try to not open the fridge every 5 min because that gives moist the chance to enter your case

 

i'm glade to help you

Condensation is made when warm and cold air collides meaning that at the point where they collide, the condensation forms. Meaning that it forms directly on the heat source eg, VRM, CPU or GPU whatever makes heat generally.

[skorpien]

Not sure if this has been covered, but you'll more than likely burn out the fridge. They're designed to chill food which, once chilled, doesn't warm up again till you take it out – not to keep a running computer cold. The computer being turned on means the fridge will be working constantly, which will reduce the life of the fridge drastically.

It may work for benching, but 24/7 use isn't a good idea.

[`br4dz-]

Condensation is the least of the worries.

 

Simply put, it won't work. Refrigerators work by removing the heat from inside and displacing it outside of the fridge, not actively cooling everything inside. Anything producing heat inside of a fridge will simply heat up the inside, and a computer is no minor heat producer. If the concept was feasible, don't you think many people would have done this by now instead of spending hundreds on water cooling and more extreme methods?

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

mineral oil computer in a fridge. oil and water don't mix so no condensation

[Yummychickenblue]

Mini fridge... don't you mean a define R4?

 

 

You have to admit it looks like one

Not really.

 

[Socratic]

The fridge would overheat, probably blow before condensation became a problem. 

 

Might be able to use this with mineral oil or just a custom loop.

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2010/07/20/hailea-hc-500a-water-chiller-review/1

[ManWithBeard1990]

Condensation is made when warm and cold air collides meaning that at the point where they collide, the condensation forms. Meaning that it forms directly on the heat source eg, VRM, CPU or GPU whatever makes heat generally.

Not really true. Condensation forms when hot wet air is cooled below the point where the relative moisture saturation reaches 100% So it forms on the cold surfaces, not the hot ones. Technically your mobo is safe, until you open the fridge and let air in that's warmer than the board.

[gylmir]

the fridge won't blow up not if it is a decent one.

we all know that at some point the fridge has to start a defrost program so it will turn around his normal working for a few sec, but you can change it by adding a timer on the compressor that after like every 30 to 60 min it wait 3 min and then start again at this point you won't blow it up (this is only for old fridges the newer ones are cooled with the oil inside that is why new fridges have oil returns and you can transport it everywhere and don't have to wait few hours to plug it in.