Help with custom cooling kit from refrigerator parts
 

Hey guys,

I have an old refrigerator (one of those small ones you keep in your dorm rooms) thats been lying around for a while. Its in working full working condition.

Im planning on building a new watercooled PC in the fall so Ill have my old one to mess around with. Im not sure about its specs cuz I didnt custom build it but Ill be looking into that. Its an old DELL 4300, P4 2.0 probably.

Have any of you guys built custom kits out of refrigerator parts? If so could you please let me know if theres anything I can build from the parts I got?

-ad187

Well a water chiller would probably be the easiest. Take the evaporator off and put it in the resevoir of a water cooling loop and you've got sub ambient temps. There's also direct die cooling but that is a lot harder since you have to attach an evaporator block to the system and recharge it. If you are interested in messing with phase change I would suggest another forum where there's more discussion on the topic.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...?s=&forumid=80

Yeah, a water chiller would be cool. I had an idea for that quite simialar. But it involved hacking up an actual "watercooler".

I'm not a big fan of simply submergeing the evaporator in a chiller. That means you need a lot of coolant, and get a long pull down time as a result.

Better to vent the gas, make a good heat exchanger, and change the cap tube while you're at it. You'll get much better temps, and have a much shorter pull down time.