Cold-Proofing a PC build

[morriscey]

Looking to build a garage PC for a house warming present for my fathers new garage. I want to make sure that even if it's kinda frosty out there, or humid in the summer that it won't short out if it's turned on so I was looking for recommendations on condensation proofing a mobo / PSU.

Will likely be an old core 2 duo board or maybe an FM2 board.  Have a few old PSU's to sacrifice as well. 

 

Hopefully something I could just spray apply to give it a small insulation. thinking about perhaps neoprene sheets, or dielectric grease.

 

 

[Drake10114]

9 minutes ago, morriscey said:

Looking to build a garage PC for a house warming present for my fathers new garage. I want to make sure that even if it's kinda frosty out there, or humid in the summer that it won't short out if it's turned on so I was looking for recommendations on condensation proofing a mobo / PSU.

Will likely be an old core 2 duo board or maybe an FM2 board.  Have a few old PSU's to sacrifice as well. 

 

Hopefully something I could just spray apply to give it a small insulation. thinking about perhaps neoprene sheets, or dielectric grease.

 

 

Linus did a build w/ sub-zero temps, I'd look into what he used there, I think it was kneaded erasers. But why a garage PC?

[You_are_a_cunt]

The only real problem is condensation. Make sure that doesn't get into the PC and you're golden.

PCs love sub-zero temps.

[The Sloth]

fx cpus, r9 fury build. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

You could use something called conformal coating (I don't know if this is the actual name of the stuff). It basically applies a layer of something like polyurethane. It's used in electronics that need to have water protection.

 

Otherwise, the only way to combat condensation would be to either keep the immediate area dry or warm. Humidity isn't really much of a problem (speaking from someone who used a computer for several years in a tropical/subtropical environment with no use of climate control)

[Bananasplit_00]

plasti dip. just plasti dip everything you can. i doubt there is going to be a problem even if you do anything but still, plasti dip is a great option

[Zando_]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You could use something called conformal coating (I don't know if this is the actual name of the stuff). It basically applies a layer of something like polyurethane. It's used in electronics that need to have water protection.

 

Otherwise, the only way to combat condensation would be to either keep the immediate area dry or warm. Humidity isn't really much of a problem (speaking from someone who used a computer for several years in a tropical/subtropical environment with no use of climate control)

Is it this: https://www.liquipel.com/products/watersafe

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Is it this: https://www.liquipel.com/products/watersafe

I think it's this http://www.galco.com/buy/Techspray/2103-12S?source=googleshopping&gclid=CIra2c3KvdMCFUOSfgodFEoOwQ

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I think it's this http://www.galco.com/buy/Techspray/2103-12S?source=googleshopping&gclid=CIra2c3KvdMCFUOSfgodFEoOwQ

I think Liquipel does the same thing, just you send it to them and they use their special machine to do it, and then send it back to you. I'd check before spraying anything on the mobo though. And if Liquipel does it, they'll have to replace it if they mess it up. 

[morriscey]

2 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

plasti dip. just plasti dip everything you can. i doubt there is going to be a problem even if you do anything but still, plasti dip is a great option

Hadn't even considered plastidip - may be easier to get ahold of than conformal coating and may do a decent enough job. 

2 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You could use something called conformal coating (I don't know if this is the actual name of the stuff). It basically applies a layer of something like polyurethane. It's used in electronics that need to have water protection.

 

Otherwise, the only way to combat condensation would be to either keep the immediate area dry or warm. Humidity isn't really much of a problem (speaking from someone who used a computer for several years in a tropical/subtropical environment with no use of climate control)

Yeah conformal coating is what I was looking for. it'll be in a garage - so hot humid days with a bay or two open and cool dark evenings might make a problem. in the summer the surfaces in his old shop were commonly covered with a slick coating of condensation. 

2 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

I think Liquipel does the same thing, just you send it to them and they use their special machine to do it, and then send it back to you. I'd check before spraying anything on the mobo though. And if Liquipel does it, they'll have to replace it if they mess it up. 

Lol looks like a solution for a much better class of hardware - I'm not too worried about messing it up - all this machine has to do is basically be a web terminal to look up information in the shop so I'm using *close to* garbage hardware. If I wreck it I'm out roughly twenty bucks - forty max.

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, morriscey said:

Hadn't even considered plastidip - may be easier to get ahold of than conformal coating and may do a decent enough job. 

Yeah conformal coating is what I was looking for. it'll be in a garage - so hot humid days with a bay or two open and cool dark evenings might make a problem. in the summer the surfaces in his old shop were commonly covered with a slick coating of condensation. 

Lol looks like a solution for a much better class of hardware - I'm not too worried about messing it up - all this machine has to do is basically be a web terminal to look up information in the shop so I'm using *close to* garbage hardware. If I wreck it I'm out roughly twenty bucks - forty max.

plasti dip will do a fine job for you here, its going to keep the moisture out