Mobo and GPU in a freezer? Could it work?!

I hope someone can settle a debate for me and a friend.

I was toying with the idea of buying a cheap fridge or freezer (frost-free of course) and modding it to accomodate psu, mobo, gpu's and hard drives.

My friend thinks i'm daft, but i see no problem with giving it a shot!

Anyone have any thoughts on this ie. pros and cons ?

Obviously optical drives and such will have to be mounted outside, but what are the other hardware limitations? I can understand that hdds may not be able to withstand the freeze, but what about the other kit?

Will moisture and condensation become a problem?

Should i worry about airflow inside or exhausts also? Or will CPU and GPU fans be sufficient?

This is something i would like to see to completion if it becomes at all feasable!

Cheers all, Michenko

 

Not recommended. A fridge would be way too damp, and a freezer may chill the PCBs beyond their tolerances and crack them, breaking the circuit paths.

Also, the components are rated to work between a certain temperature range and HDDs etc may not spin up and fans may freeze solid at the kind of temps you get in a freezer.

 

1. open up your fridge/freezer.

2. wait.

3. it creates condensation.

also, 99% of fridges/freezers are NOT made to have something hot INSIDE of them. notice how your fridge only turns on/runs at certain intervals, having it run 100% of the time could most likely cause problems.

there probably are complicated ways of making this work, but just sticking components inside of a fridge/freezer will most definitely NOT work, and in all cases i do not recommend trying it. if you are really worried about heating issues, try watercooling. there are many people on these forums that could assist you with setting up a watercooling system.

 

Pffft! Well that's the end of that one then!

Thanks for bothering to reply to me, especially before i did something stupid

 

Would have solved an overheating problem,though.

 

Haha yeh, luckily my temps are pretty good. Living in the North East of England, it's definitely not the warmest climate!

 

Simply --- water cools much faster and more effectively than air, even if the water is at room temp. Watercooled systems are the best, period.