Ultimate Cooling

This is actually pretty good.

 

i knooooow riiiight? saw the vid today and LOVED IT! i mean, its so cheap and relatively easy to do and u get PERMANENT ambient temps at LOAD!

 

Yeah and considering you don't need the fan you can get a silent passively cooled system.

also a free heatsink for winter :'D

 

Glad I'm not the only one who has thought of using that much radiator. That was nicely executed and cheap too.

 

Is it bad that I did this 7 years ago?

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Edit: I was actually thinking of this video, which is a sequel to the one posted by @Danishblunt. Jay took it up a couple of notches by using a portable AC unit to cool that crazy radiator setup. And, as expected, it turned out great.



I've been using AC cooling for benching overclocked laptops for years. (I learned about that from Brother @Johnksss back around 2011/2012.) Works fantastic. @Trafficante has been doing the same for his desktop.



Nice to see it being put to good use by Jay. He could probably get the same results with one or two radiators. Once the coolant is lowered to the temperature of the chilled air, the extra radiators are not doing anything. But, it's still very cool as a geek experiment. I love stuff like that.

 

The only thing I would caution about air conditioner based cooling solutions in general is that they run much higher risks of creating condensation and corrosion on/around the components and hardware they are meant to preserve.

That is not to say they can't be implemented correctly or safely but I don't know if I would consider them for any hardware intended to be used long-term.

Overall it really depends on the region you live and humidity levels in your home/office environment as well as temperature differentials though.

 

I've been using AC cooling for about 6 years or maybe a little longer and I have never had any problems with condensation. I've always heard that and was always extra OCD about checking for evidence of it and it has never happened. But, I am not normally in a place with abnormally high humidity. That could be an issue.

Actually, a lot longer than that many years now that I think about it. It was 2011 or 2012 when I bought my own portable AC unit to use at home, but about 2007-2008 is when I first started using AC cooling in hotel rooms at night after work. I traveled about 70% for work and used the hotel AC units mounted between the floor and window. Those work great as well. M17xR2, M18xR1 and M18xR2 got hundreds of hours of benching using AC cooling in hotel rooms all across the United States. I'd set an ironing board up the same height as the AC unit and put the front of the laptop on the ironing board and the rear intake vents directly over the cold air vents and turn the AC fan on max. I used to get so cold doing it that my hands would be numb and I couldn't type well, LOL.

Lots of late night benching sprees with Brother @Johnksss as my sensei. Seems like not very long ago, but that was quite a few years back. We were both young bucks back then. All my kids were in elementary, middle and high school. Now Grandpa Fox is just a grumpy old fart.

 

That would drive me crazy, I used to live out of hotels for work Monday thru Friday for some years and I know how cold those things get. (I prefer 75-80F myself.)

I agree out in the south western regions of the U.S. the humidity isn't too much of an issue really compared to the East coast regions at least (I'm originally from Florida).

In fact, technically air conditioning units dry the air and extract the humidity from it. The problem is more likely to occur in a house or apartment that doesn't have A/C and keeps it's windows open for natural ventilation. A stand-alone A/C unit in that scenario that creates greater differentials is much more likely to create condensation, especially in the south eastern regions of the U.S.

 

You reminded me of one time in 2011. Be me, trying to beat Johnksss in one score (don't remember which test might have been Vantage).
After learning that he placed his laptop on top of the A/C, I wanted to take advantage of the facet that it was mid winter and I was in Michigan.

I took my - back then - top of the line m17x R2, performed hours of benching in -32C in my balcony while in full anti-winter gear (heaviest northface jacket I had with gloves).
This eventually became a habit of mine, and even then, not a single issue of condensation (snow was everywhere).