I am building a computer.

Mon May 17, 2004 4:26 pm by H.Q. Victor

Any kind of refrigeration cooling does risk condensation. The only real aplicable way to use it, is in a sealed system that contains sillocon dioxide, I believe its called, to reduce moister level. And a sealed system,would help eliminate dust. If I remember right, Hard drives have a sealed system as well. Its possible, if not costly though.

Edited by - Finalday on 5/17/2004 8:29:13 PM

Mon May 17, 2004 4:28 pm by Alpha-Leader

I think I will rely on fans. i dont care how noisy they are.

Mon May 17, 2004 5:32 pm by Tawakalna

there ain't no way I'm putting water inside my pc. not in a million years. don't care what anyone says.

every day is like Sunday, every day is silent and grey..

Mon May 17, 2004 5:34 pm by Esquilax

Taw - I'm a bit doubtful about water cooling myself. Sure, it CAN be quieter (depending on the pump), but the cooling benefits aren't *that* great. Give me a good old compressor cooler anytime!

Mon May 17, 2004 7:26 pm by Indy11

@Fd.... you mean that it would be costly right?

@Esqy.... Seriously? You'd consider installing a compressor cooling system if you had the scratch? How would you deal with the condensation or is the general humidity out your always less than, say 20%?

Mon May 17, 2004 7:32 pm by H.Q. Victor

Yes, to seal a system, but make it accesable to swap parts, would be hard to do. The heat generated by ANY part, that comes incontact with the cool/cold air, would sweat like a stuck pig. If you could do away withthe humidity? maybe then. For those with money to burn, it would be intersting to try it out though.

Mon May 17, 2004 8:14 pm by Esquilax

Indy - I'm always serious

. Condensation shouldn't be a problem, as only the CPU is cooled using the compressor; depending upon which model you choose of course.

Tue May 18, 2004 12:14 am by mustang

Bah, just rip the side off your case and belt an air-con wall unit to the side or you could just toss your beast into a vat of Freon.

Tue May 18, 2004 12:24 am by The Ninja

i always wanted to hook up a central a/c system (not the evaporative ones, the refrigerative ones) and just put in in the side of my box, put some vents on the side. that would cool it down

Vi

Tue May 18, 2004 3:04 pm by Esquilax

Actually Vi, there have been reports of people using flexible tubing to connect central a/c flooring ducts to the inside of PC cases in order to harbour a cool airflow. The only problem with such a mod is that it would be unsightly, and the amount of dust in a central heating system is enormous.

Tue May 18, 2004 3:47 pm by H.Q. Victor

Another problem is still humidity and mold. A/C vents have a level of humidity flowing through them and form mold on grill work. I work on them for a living. You would still need to get the humidity level down to less than 20% to be safe.

Wed May 19, 2004 9:22 am by BlazeME

Just a note that pc cases usually come with power supplies (called PSU's) and it proably comes with cables as well with your motherboard. And do you really need a hard drive the size of kent? I've been reading up on building a computer (since I will be building one soon) and have you considered 2 Western Digital Raptor hard drives in RAID so that the 10, 000 RPM can be used better.

Latin for BlazeME: Flameus Muchus n00bus

Wed May 19, 2004 2:51 pm by Esquilax

That depends upon which type of RAID you're using. You won't be as impressed with two fast HDDs mirroring and duplexing

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Thu May 20, 2004 7:23 am by Indy11

Raid 0. No matter what I read about it, they always say Raid 0. That's the one where the two HDDs are combined in the aggregate so that you have double the volume of a single HDD and both are used to store and fetch the data as if they were one.

What I cannot understand is what defragging something like that would do.

Thu May 20, 2004 7:38 am by Tawakalna

exactly the same as on any other disk or partition. trust me, it's fine.

..you shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way..

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