USB Beverage Chiller

[ai_01]

at CoolIT Systems they have a usb beverage cooler, the plate cools to 5C, i bout one from thinkgeek, took it apart and now i slapped it with a mild size heatsink at the bottom of my rad, my cpu temps are now 29-30C(3Ghz AMD Opty @ 1.57 vcore) in the hot summer. Price is 25-35 US, and its also usb so i just connected it to the mobo.

 

[Ham]

Pics?

 

[FarFarAway]

Great idea mate. May have to grab one of these myself

And yeah: pics?

 

[FragTek]

at CoolIT Systems[/URL'] they have a usb beverage cooler, the plate cools to 5C, i bout one from thinkgeek, took it apart and now i slapped it with a mild size heatsink at the bottom of my rad, my cpu temps are now 29-30C(3Ghz AMD Opty @ 1.57 vcore) in the hot summer. Price is 25-35 US, and its also usb so i just connected it to the mobo.

Great idea man, :rocker: to that!

 

[ai_01]

ill post pics soon, its kinda messy right now.

 

[Ares210]

so you took apart the beverage chiller (i have seen it before) and attached it to your heatsink straight onto your processor? lol a little confused

 

[MikeEnIke]

Nope, attached it to his radiator on his water cooling set up. The radiotar chills the water back down.

 

[Ares210]

Ahhh i see. I must have misread. lol

 

[FragTek]

This gives me a GREAT product idea... A cheap waterchiller unit, take the pelt and braze it on to a 3-4" 1/2" copper pipe, attach a cheap hsf to it, and sell it. Just pop it in to your watercooling loop directly before the CPU and tada, ghetto waterchiller for mad cheap

 

[NoL]

I doubt it helped you at all, need pics to say more.

 

[ai_01]

I doubt it helped you at all, need pics to say more.

it only brought it down 3-6C, theres no OC'in benifit, im thinking about stripping the paint of the bottom part of the rad so it will get better contact, h/e my room is'nt like a freakin sauna anymore, which is nice.

 

[NoL]

Considering peltiers are not good at pulling heat thru a medium, a radiator has fins so the contact area must be crap, 3-6C would be a huge drop.

I don't see it happening. Plus you can't get below ambient on water (exception to evpaorative cooling) so if the TEC pulled the water below ambient, the radiator (or rest of it) would HEAT the water back up.

 

[ai_01]

its not touching the fins its a double pass rad, its mainly touching one of passes like this

, sorta ill post a pic when i can.

 

[NoL]

I'd like to bump this as I still have not seen any proof that this should help at all like pics.

 

[FragTek]

I'd like some pix as well. I could possibly see this dropping the temp perhaps 1*c if very lucky. I don't see where that pelt would be strong enough to penetrate the rad's thick side wall and then have any impact on the waters temperature.

 

[Dav0s]

that rad is plastic? or is it metal

 

[ai_01]

rad is metal, the pelt broke too much pressure on it.. ill try and post a pic asap.

 

[FragTek]

that rad is plastic? or is it metal

A plastic rad, wtf? C'mon Dave... lol

 

[NoL]

Even then if the water temp drops even a tiny bit, its warmed up by the rad.

 

[FragTek]

Right, the whole radiator would have to be the temp of the TEC for it to be worthwhile.