PC-Rig as a Sous Vide heater?

[LordBangalot]

Heyho dudes.

 

As some of you might know, a video on the topic of "Sous Vide"-Cooking was published on the Techquickie channel (Right here). My idea was to build a badass a rig, containing power hungry hardware (e.g. AMD FX-9590 or a good old Pentium 4, which has proofed it's ability to cook things....) and watercool the whole system, in order to get a quite hot water temperature. The water could pass a chamber or aquarium, before going through radiators, so you have quite a big tank containing hot water. This hot water could then be used to do some "Sous Vide"-Magic. A schematic can be found below.

 

What do you guys think? Could it work?

 

I can't try it myself, so maybe one of you or even LMG will test it:)!

[ThinkWithPortals]

[ShadowCaptain]

6 minutes ago, LordBangalot said:

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sous-vide needs precise temperatures for specific lengths of times, not sure this would make a great cooker 

[IcedEskimo]

what if the sous vide bag breaks and you have pieces of chicken or whatever in your loop?

[LordBangalot]

@ShadowCaptain That it won't be a great cooker is obvious, but if you run things like Furmark for some time, the temperature should not change that much, should it?

 

@IcedEskimo No risk, no fun, right?

[ShadowCaptain]

4 minutes ago, LordBangalot said:

@ShadowCaptain That it won't be a great cooker is obvious, but if you run things like Furmark for some time, the temperature should not change that much, should it?

it could do, and if you need to alter the temp to cook sometihng specific you would not have very granular control

plus the energy costs, noise etc of running the PC

[I am an SSD]

4 minutes ago, LordBangalot said:

Heyho dudes.

 

As some of you might know, a video on the topic of "Sous Vide"-Cooking was published on the Techquickie channel (Right here). My idea was to build a badass a rig, containing power hungry hardware (e.g. AMD FX-9590 or a good old Pentium 4, which has proofed it's ability to cook things....) and watercool the whole system, in order to get a quite hot water temperature. The water could pass a chamber or aquarium, before going through radiators, so you have quite a big tank containing hot water. This hot water could then be used to do some "Sous Vide"-Magic. A schematic can be found below.

 

What do you guys think? Could it work?

 

I can't try it myself, so maybe one of you or even LMG will test it:)!

 

The water wouldnt hot enough IMO, however powerhungry a system you use. You'd be better off with the pizza heater if you really want to cook something with a computer.

[Lays]

Water moves around in a loop to fast for it to be super hot on 1 side of the loop, and cold after it goes through the radiator.

 

There are many youtube videos explaining how it works, but it doesn't magically become 30c hotter after going through the component blocks, and then 30c colder after going through the radiator.

[LordBangalot]

@ShadowCaptain Let's say you don't have high standards in meal quality and you just want to "heat up some food" while you are gaming on a sick rig. I think it would be kinda funny. Energy costs should not be higher than running a normal gaming rig + Sous Vide heater.

[ShadowCaptain]

3 minutes ago, LordBangalot said:

@ShadowCaptain Let's say you don't have high standards in meal quality and you just want to "heat up some food" while you are gaming on a sick rig. I think it would be kinda funny. Energy costs should not be higher than running a normal gaming rig + Sous Vide heater.

haha if you dont have high standards you dont need a sous-vide ;P 

they have already done the pizza warmer option, which would probably help warm up normal food anyway

 

I admire the insanity though

[ZetZet]

First of all, not enough heat to heat up enough water to SUBMERGE something. 

[LordBangalot]

@ShadowCaptain To be honest, i just wanted to see some people doing wicked shit. If you would build a water circle without any radiators and just let the big tank act as a ghetto SousVide heater and passvie cooling element, you should get a good tempearture, right?

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, LordBangalot said:

@ShadowCaptain To be honest, i just wanted to see some people doing wicked shit. If you would build a water circle without any radiators and just let the big tank act as a ghetto SousVide heater and passvie cooling element, you should get a good tempearture, right?

Maybe, might not be enough heat to get the water that hot, you need water at like 50 degrees.. and you will need to heat a lot of water

[You_are_a_cunt]