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Title: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: bonker on August 11, 2011, 06:23:10 PM Anyone else doing this? Dry ice seems like the ideal cooling methods. It sublimates away and is non conductive.
Pretty much the best way to get serious cooling. Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: release on August 11, 2011, 06:24:42 PM it's expensive and the cost would be far greater than any performance you could get out of your system unless you could get it free.
Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: the joint on August 11, 2011, 06:27:15 PM Lol, I hope you know that Bonker is putting these ridiculous threads out as jokes. You shoulda seen his idea to forever leave a fridge with the door open next to your GPU in another thread.
Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: jackjack on August 11, 2011, 06:43:35 PM Lol, I hope you know that Bonker is putting these ridiculous threads out as jokes. You shoulda seen his idea to forever leave a fridge with the door open next to your GPU in another thread. Epic!Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: bcpokey on August 11, 2011, 07:03:12 PM dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really.
Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: the joint on August 11, 2011, 07:08:13 PM dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really. Personally, I do 2 things. I buy glaciers at bottom-dollar prices, and I buy shit-tons of algae to suck up the carbon dioxide in my room so that heat escapes more easily. Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: timmey on August 11, 2011, 07:34:39 PM Instead of dry ice you can also use phase change technology to cool you gpu to sub zero temperatures:
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4168/coolingunit.jpghttp://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7674/68012488.jpg Both for CPU but maybe they can build you a GPU version: http://www.vapochill.ch/en/index.html http://gear.ocztechnology.com/products/description/OCZ_Cryo_Z/index.html Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: kgo on August 11, 2011, 07:52:50 PM This is cheaper than dry ice. Prepare to have your mind blown:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling (https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling) Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: flyswatta on August 11, 2011, 10:31:47 PM This is cheaper than dry ice. Prepare to have your mind blown: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling (https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling) Vegetable oil turns rancid. You need to use mineral oil. Title: Re: Dry Ice Cooling? Post by: bonker on August 12, 2011, 09:29:35 AM dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really. Personally, I do 2 things. I buy glaciers at bottom-dollar prices, and I buy shit-tons of algae to suck up the carbon dioxide in my room so that heat escapes more easily. This si a valid point. I kept passing out when running my CO2 cooling system, which I put down to CO2. Basically, I just opened the windows and introduced lots of plants in to my room. It is expensive to run hough. |
