Beyond water cooling. (Was Re: Peltier devices for cooling)

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Y'all.
	Ok I'm out on a limb here but this is something I've been thinking about
doing for a long time. There is a big hurdle to overcome but I'll get to that.

I saw as a joke, on some site or other, about a guy who stole his
neighbor's fridge to run his over-clocked machine in. Ok Har har very funny
etc.

But then I got thinking. A mate of mine had this little bar fridge. It was
quite quiet. Certainly a lot quieter than my server with 2 main fans, CPU
fans, A bunch of Hard drives etc.

So I got to thinking. These little bar fridges are about the right height
for a server case. In fact you could probably fit 2 servers side by side.
Maybe on little slide-out runners etc. And the added advantage is that even
if the fans were running inside, it pretty much dampens the sound with all
that insulation round it. You could go so far as to mount all the drives in
the door of the thing. Or cut holes so they can poke through.

And of course, over-clock to your heart's content. :)

The only problem is that of Frost. I don't know enough about refrigeration
to know how to re-design a small fridge so that moisture didn't accumulate
and do damage. But you get the idea. You could keep the computer's
environment on ice as it were. And of course the fridge would only have to
be on while the computer(s) were on. 

My figuring is this. Find a cheap second hand bar fridge (but a quiet one)
and then cut holes in it or what ever it takes to keep it from frosting up.
Then bolt the computers inside it some how and shove it in the corner where
the server would have stood anyway. It's the kind of idea that sounds less
and less silly the more you think about it.

Anyone known anything about refrigeration?

Be absolutely Icebox.

 _ __        _                              
| "_ \      | |         batzman at all-electric.com
| |_)/  __ _| |_ ____       ALL ELECTRIC KITCHEN               
|  _ \ / _` | __|___ |  Geek music by geeks for geeks
| |_) | (_| | |_  / /   
|_,__/ \__,_|\__|/ /    
                / ,__   http://all-electric.com
Goodfortune    |_____|