Anyone ever try or do this?

[Tomsawyer]

Answered a question over at overclockers and got to thinking about one of my own. Ok we all like to supercool our chips. We run tecs, pelts, vapor blocks, and cascades untill the cpu is colder than the surface of the moon.

Some of us then go to cool the vgu, northbridges and southbridges with more pelts, waterblocks ect.

Has anyone ever built a true hermaticaly sealed chamber in which the entire motheboard exists? I mean a sealed box that either is exists in a vacuum or supercooled enviroment of sub zero ambient temps. One could then put a block on the cpu and vpu and drop those even further.

I myself one day just for a laugh ran a tube from the ac vent down to my intake fan and the temps all around did drop but imagine just what a supercold enviroment could do overall.

Be mega expensive, have to win the lotto just to get such a project going but oh the fun one could have lol :banana:

[LardArse]

Thats what I'm doing now on my 5-compressor powered rig

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[Tomsawyer]

Nice Lardass! This project costing you an arm and a leg or is it managable? Being a diver I have been in a hyperbolic chamber twice and was thinking of a mini version of one only with the means of supercooling the chamber but your rig is just as doable.

With a little tyke of my own and the house/car/ ect payments I was lucky to afford my mach1 lol

[Soulburner]

Xbit has one of these freezers, they use it when they do their video card vmod testing.

They just put the whole thing in there, it seals and freezes.

[nas]

a vacumed chamber is a lil hard to get .. :)
subcooled chamber would be a lil easyer

[LardArse]

Actually, the chiller is using a small compressor designed for R134a but running R22 and with high side of 225 PSI, a lil taxing on the bugger.

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Here's the pipe from drain pan.

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And drips into a cup which I will replace with a bucket.

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I was testing out the CPU cascade on a prescott without the chiller on and with 90% humidity, condensation was quick to spoil the fun. Just ran the chiller and have 8C air and best of all dry air in there so it will help a lot.