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25-Aug-2003, 11:10 AM #1
air con blower?
can we design or make a blower that works like an aircon?
meaning it zips air and blows the air to computer but the air is colder compared to outside air?
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25-Aug-2003, 11:22 AM #2
I think people who travel on for example the London Underground would be delighted with such an innovation. The only problem as I understand it is that refrigerating air or water involves a process which itself produces heat.
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25-Aug-2003, 11:44 AM #3
Well, you could just use a peltier device mounted outside the computer and blow the cool air into the system. Obviously, it takes power to run the peltier device, and it creates a lot of hot air in the process, but that's outside the case.
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25-Aug-2003, 10:05 PM #4
If you were to get a container, fill it with water, and freeze it, you could put it behind the fan and I'd think that it would blow cool air. You'd have to keep rotating it to get it to work, though.

(I can't take credit for the idea, hehe. There's a battery-powered "personal air conditioner" available through ThinkGeek that works basically this way. )
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26-Aug-2003, 04:22 PM #5
I'm not sure I'd want to introduce that much moisture into my computer. Wouldn't dry ice, used in the same fashion, work just as well? Being carbon dioxide, it's have to be used in a well-ventilated area, but unless there's a potential for reaction or corrosion inside a computer I'd try that before regular ice.

Just a thought!
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26-Aug-2003, 09:07 PM #6
If the ice is melting inside a sealed container, it wouldn't introduce any more moisture than any other method.
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26-Aug-2003, 09:28 PM #7
I just noticed this at one of my dealers. If you want cool, this looks like a place to start. They have all kinds of water cooled attachments for the hard drive, cpu, even cases.

http://www.koolance.com/products/ind...?category_id=3
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28-Aug-2003, 05:11 AM #8
Talking CPU SUPER COOLER
Way back in the late 1900s a company named Kryotech sold a tower case that had a refrigeration unit on the bottom.
It would chill the CPU to -36 degrees Celsius allowing a 650Mhz to be overclocked to 800Mhz.
They don't make it anymore because CPU prices are so low compared to their power.

Check out the pictures:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/19991020/
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/19971205/
http://www.kryotech.com/menu/product/product1.asp



They should have built an ice cream maker/CPU cooler, now thats what I would call progress.
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30-Aug-2003, 05:38 PM #9
hehehe! yeah ryt!
its pretty weird, but i'd rather use this kind of blower than to install an aircon that sucks electrical power!
i thought of that melting ice before but i know it would blow water on my motherboard.
do we have improvised aircon for pc now?
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