Strange idea for water cooling

Hardware Hub Cooling
1

I have this strange idea about using an ice chest with a water pump. 

Would this work and not cause problems?

2

Well.. It would take up a lot of space, and you would probably need a very large pump. On top of that you still need to cool the ice, since it would melt. 

But go ahead, I want a report on this :)  

3

If its cold where you live, why not have the ice chest outside. The air outside will cool the chest which in turn will cool the pipes running to the pc

4

where i live it's humid weather. i was thinking of dunking the radiator in the ice with out the fans.

5

That will work up until the temperature in your loop and ice bath equalize then it is more ice and draining excess water.

Since you mentioned that it is humid you would have to take all the measures LN2 guys have to since the condensation from sub-ambient temps in the loop will cause condensation.

6

As mentioned condensation wont be your friend. I even did an experiment many years ago now with an old rad in d'ice only took 10 mins or so for even the fittings to build up with condensation. If you're only doing this for short burst oc runs and you have the parts spare then sure go for it, permanent use - no bad idea.

7

you'd basically just be using the heat displacement unit on the cooler to remove the heat from your processor. It's really inefficient. Just go build a custom loop with at least 240mmx60mm additional radiator space and install a peltier cooling plate. Really cold core temps, ahoy.

8

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2408/exp-01/245W_Potted_Peltier.html?tl=g30c105

That is capable of displacing 245W of heat from the cold side, meaning it will get very frosty on that side. The reason why you need so much extra radiator space is because it will exhaust that heat and the heat generated by the current drawn through the plate, and that needs to be cooled to prevent it from burning out the unit. Definitely some awesome technology, though. For some reason, the popularity of peltier coolers has dropped recently, and I'm not sure why that is.

9

I will stick to plain water coolers then.