Cooler Master's GeminII heatsink overlord
By Ryan Block 
posted February 4th 2007 6:16AM
posted February 4th 2007 6:16AM
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I still think that putting the tower in the fridge would be a better solution.
Anyone want to try converting a mini fridge (the ones which store beer only) into a computer?
I wanna try takin the heatsinks out of a fridge and wackin them on my PC
Richard Lai,
It'd be way too hard to avoid condensation in a refrigerator.
Plus, the math just doesn't work. Refrigerators and freezers just don't remove heat as fast as a processor kicks it out. Even if they did, the compressors in fridges and freezers are not meant to run 24/7. You would burn it out in short order.
The fridge computer has been done...but with disasterous results.
with a large enough surface area of the heat dissipator, and a well managed moisture condenser a minifridge PC would work pretty well..
why was it previously disaster mate?
Ah well, there's always the vegetable oil solution: http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans1/page2.html
See here:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=373263
I, for one, welcome our... ah, forget it.
@Foamator
damn... beat me to it
@Andrew H
I'm just surprised the first comment didn't say it!
@Andrew H
I'm just surprised the first comment didn't say it.
Oops... sorry for the double (triple?) post. My browser bitched at me.
MEH!
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FB a.k.a LDM
Water-bending Master
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/ldm_master_builder!.jpg
That's a big heatsink if it needs 2 120mm fans. o.O
I wonder if any motherboard has ever been destroyed by large heatsinks...
"Damn, where's the finesse and style? Slapping a big chunk of metal on your CPU might help temperatures, but when you peek through the case window it looks ugly as hell. My Zalman cooler might not get as low a temperature as the GeminII, but it looks a whole lot better."
What a moron...
A heatsink is there to do a job, this heatsink looks pretty impressive but isn't all that beautiful. Who really cares when it is inside your computer... And why the hell do you have a case window anyway? Do you want everyone to know you spent more on your video card than your car? And does this monster vid card help compensate for something pretty personal?
Too bad a motherboard standard hasn't been introduced that puts the CPU socket on the "backside" of the motherboard. With a case designed for such a specification, the heatsink could draw in cool outside air directly, and even exhaust it back the outside. Also, the heatsink could literally be the size of the side of the case.
Of course, we are talking about an industry that each time that when switching from PCI to PCI Express, missed the opportunity to flip the components to the other side of the board (as they were with ISA boards), so that heat producing components (especially on the graphics card) would be facing upward in a tower case.