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joefart · 03-28-2001, 05:06 AM

Anyone have any experience with using a small fridge (say a dorm fridge) in a water cooling setup? I did a search and pulled up some information, mostly coming from Alives saying it didn't work to well. Alives, if you read this can you elaborate on your experience? Anyone with experience with this, please share.

I am planning on placing a water reservoir in the fridge I have. The reservoir will be connected to a copper coil located in the freezer section. Both of these will connect to copper tubing that has been epoxied into the holes drilled into the side wall of the dorm fridge. Outside, will be my mag drive 250 that I got for a whole $13 and change. The water block will be a custom Cu cross drilled water block. All tubing is .5" ID nylon reinforced vinyl tubing (not sure if it is vinyl, but it is reinforced.) How does this setup sound?

For now, the cooling system will be used on my lowly Tbird 650 on a Iwill KK266, but hopefully once graduation passes and I start working, I can get one of those AXIA 1GHz chips and get 1.5+ GHz.

Thanks for all input. Now it is time for some sleep and then work more on my thesis. What a way to spend my spring break...

03-28-2001, 05:06 AM	#1
joefart Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 7	Using fridge for water cooling? Anyone have any experience with using a small fridge (say a dorm fridge) in a water cooling setup? I did a search and pulled up some information, mostly coming from Alives saying it didn't work to well. Alives, if you read this can you elaborate on your experience? Anyone with experience with this, please share. I am planning on placing a water reservoir in the fridge I have. The reservoir will be connected to a copper coil located in the freezer section. Both of these will connect to copper tubing that has been epoxied into the holes drilled into the side wall of the dorm fridge. Outside, will be my mag drive 250 that I got for a whole $13 and change. The water block will be a custom Cu cross drilled water block. All tubing is .5" ID nylon reinforced vinyl tubing (not sure if it is vinyl, but it is reinforced.) How does this setup sound? For now, the cooling system will be used on my lowly Tbird 650 on a Iwill KK266, but hopefully once graduation passes and I start working, I can get one of those AXIA 1GHz chips and get 1.5+ GHz. Thanks for all input. Now it is time for some sleep and then work more on my thesis. What a way to spend my spring break...