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Linus did a video where they put an air cooled PC into a refrigerator and bench marked it and I'm not entirely satisfied with the method used. I feel like a better way to truly test the refrigerator idea is to use water cooling and pipe the radiator into a refrigerator next to the cold air output. Or even so much as taking the radiator in the refrigerator out and rigging up the PC radiator to the compressor deck to refrigerate the coolant. Anyone else interested?

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14 minutes ago, Liveonafarm said:

Linus did a video where they put an air cooled PC into a refrigerator and bench marked it and I'm not entirely satisfied with the method used. I feel like a better way to truly test the refrigerator idea is to use water cooling and pipe the radiator into a refrigerator next to the cold air output. Or even so much as taking the radiator in the refrigerator out and rigging up the PC radiator to the compressor deck to refrigerate the coolant. Anyone else interested?

You're looking at condensation problems if the coolant is colder than room temperature.

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On 12/27/2016 at 0:10 PM, Liveonafarm said:

Linus did a video where they put an air cooled PC into a refrigerator and bench marked it and I'm not entirely satisfied with the method used. I feel like a better way to truly test the refrigerator idea is to use water cooling and pipe the radiator into a refrigerator next to the cold air output. Or even so much as taking the radiator in the refrigerator out and rigging up the PC radiator to the compressor deck to refrigerate the coolant. Anyone else interested?

It's called a water chiller and it has been done.  Dealing with condensation is a massive bitch, and the noise of having a compressor with your desktop.

 

A regular fridge isn't designed for the purpsoe.

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