RADIATOR ON FREEZER

[UltimateAlloy25]

Guys I'm genuinely curious, what happens if you mount the radiator of an AIO cooler (h100i etc) to a freezer or other cold object?

[Laederem]

it gets cold, hopefully not cold enough to cause condensation

 

which is bad

[Jerakl]

Cool it with the caps ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

[TheSLSAMG]

If the liquid gets cold enough, it can form condensation on the CPU block, causing possible hardware failure. Either way, I never understood people's infatuations with putting their loops or systems in a fridge/freezer.

[gozzygozborn]

What do you mean what happens? the radiator gets cold.

[Flight1sim]

it gets cold?

umm yeah...

[UltimateAlloy25]

What do you mean what happens? the radiator gets cold.

 

it gets cold?

umm yeah...

I understand It gets cold, thats kind of obvious,

 

 

it gets cold, hopefully not cold enough to cause condensation

 

which is bad

This is the kind of info i was curious about. Clearly there are reasons not to do it otherwise everybody would be.

[Flight1sim]

 

 

This is the kind of info i was curious about. Clearly there are reasons not to do it otherwise everybody would be.

I wouldn't put a freezer next to my PC...

You should've been a little more specific, although I forgot about condensation 

[aidenrelkoff]

Its possible. but do not get it cooler then around 8* C, because then all that stuff happens ^

[JonU]

Also a freezer isn't designed to coll something actively generating heat.

[Stoggy26]

From what i read in most places if your cpu gets a few degrees below ambient theres a chance for condensation which wouldnt be to good lol

[Grrizz]

For the most part fridge coolers aren't that powerful (though modern ones are pretty good) but they aren't designed for active cooling they are more designed to maintain a cold temperature, things like the evaporator size and amount of refrigerant in the compressor need to be balanced based on heat load. Transferring the heat via an air gap is really inefficient too so ideally you want to gut the fridge/air-con and put it in a water interface.

If you were to do something like this generally air conditioning compressors are a better fit however you have to be mindful of condensation which will form at sub-ambient temperatures the exact temperature of which is determined by the current ambient temperature and humidity and is known as the dew point, you can insulate everything (from the tube to the waterblocks to the motherboard itself) to prevent condensation though. Also if it goes too low you then need to be wary of freezing and have to use additives or alternate fluids to prevent it.

The other thing to bare in mind is the power draw, compressors are very efficient coolers but that doesn't mean they don't use a lot of power, they also tend to be noisy and put out a lot of heat.

Then there are a whole bunch of caveats like minimum cycle times on the compressor, getting the correct capillary tube length or setting up a TXV, evacuating the loop of moisture properly if doing a custom one, so on and so forth.

Its not a simple project but if its some thing you are interested in as a hobby it can be fun, look into "phase-change cooling" and "chilled liquid cooling" for more info but its something you want to be very comfortable with water cooling before moving into IMO, even peltier cooling is a good intermediate step.

The simplest setups use a window air conditioner with the evaporator dumped in a chilly bin full of water that gets pumped around the loop.