[Professional] 2010 Overclock.net Case mod Competition Voting Thread - Page 14

Pulling back the our chat towards mods, the wcing kits are as cool as CrackerJacks to me because they are relatively cheap (price of some oversized air coolers) and relatively efficient (more stable than air) and quite compact in size. Another plus is that they are relatively maintenance free except for the occasional blast of air to clean the radiadator and the Coolit is sooo quite. I originally had not planned on using WCing as shown in my log but however, reading the great review given here and taking advantage of my trip to see my son's graduation stateside, I ordered it and only had a month to fool around with it before the due date, way too little to incorporate it fully into my mod. I do see it as the ticket to water cooling for the average user that just has to dip his toes into it to see what the fuss is about liquid cooling and get a taste of sweetness before going full blast into it later on with something more complete and fulfilling or more extreme, as bob says.

However, if the new NEC phase change systems takes hold, first to be produced and tested on servers and then eventually to trickle down to consumer pcs, I will skip WCing althogether and go this way as it promises to cost less than WCing and yet be more efficient.



Hmmm.. innovation gets the brain cells moving again! And this help mods gobs for being compact and easy to accommodate within the build. Crossing my fingers for it to work-this would be ground breaking! Even more exciting than LN2 with helium, hehe.




Cheers and Saludos

Yes but the reason they are used on servers are because servers can be as loud as they want. However if you want a 24/7 computer in your room, it would be extremely annoying to have a phase change setup.

Ahh, patience my good bob, the specs on the NEC phase change system are absolutely to crave for. Present day phase changers are noisy and they remind me of the cooling systems on consumer freezers which I got to see and learn a lot from my previous popsicle biz. Since I distributed frozen popsicles and otter pop clones, I had a scad of these freezers all over town. Their cooling packages are like these:





Below is the heart of the system. Heat exchange was through the walls of the freezers, the reason for them being warm outside all the time.

However, the newer freezers but more the mini-fridges found in hotel rooms are going toward non-moving parts systems like these which are more like heat exchangers.



Now, if I could lay my hands on one of these heat exchangers, hehe. The only disadvantage is its size but quite it will be. Oh my, now you got me going again!

Cheers and Saludos

Voting is almost over!

Hmm... I'm wondering if they are powerful enough to cool a hot computer.

Papang, what type of severs have they been used on. They sound quite intriguing.

Last day to get your votes in!

I did a Google search on the use of the "heat absorption" type compressors for cooling computers and came up empty. These compressors are made my a Spanish company called Omnitech. I am sure that there are others that do so too but Omintech is the only I could find that uses these compressors to cool small refrigerators which is something I can relate to by experience. They give this explanation:

En qué se diferencian un minibar y una refrigerador "normal"? Una nevera "normal", es decir, una nevera con compresor, que es la que hay en la mayorÃ*a de las casas, utiliza un compresor para hacer que circule un refrigerante; mientras que las de absorción utilizan un "generador/evaporador", que básicamente es un ensamblaje de tubos sin partes móviles, como el sistema de refrigeración. Debido a la ausencia de un compresor en los minibares de absorción, se asegura que éste opere sin ruido, y, al no haber partes móviles, no necesita mantenimiento.
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How do a minibar and a "normal" refrigerator differ? A normal refrigerator uses a mechanical compressor, which is what is in most homes, using these compressors to circulate a coolant, while the absorption type uses a "generator / evaporator, which basically is a tube assembly with no moving parts, as the cooling system refrigerant circulant. Due to the absence of a compressor in absorption type minibars, it ensures that they operate without noise, and, not having moving parts, no maintenance.

You can see some pics here at this Chilean mini-fridge (frigo-bar in spanish) supplier which is in Spanish but the main thing is the pics.

http://www.hotelservices.cl/frigobar.html

I will visit some refrigeration repair shops to ask about how common they are here in Cancun. If one should have one in their junk pile, as long as the system is whole (charged with gas), I could rescue one to see what they are about. Rust and unruly Spring Breakers take their toll on these "mini-bars" here and if some Spring Breakers should have thrown one into a the pool below their room (they do this and worse), it might have rusted out by now or the insulation absorbed enough water to make unfit for use in a room--but good enough for me, hehe.

Oh yeah, KEEP THE VOTES COMING TILL THE VERY END!

My favorite mod was Orb Fortress and it came in third!!!
but I like all the other one as well!!!
Congratulation to the Winners!!!