A cool way to cool down your CPU? What an interesting experiment.

Published on October 13, 2009 By CharlesCS In Personal Computing

I was listening to a podcast from a site call podnutz.com and the host of the podcast was talking about some USB gadgets and mentioned one that he said could be used in a different way and was wondering if anyone has ever tried it, seen it done or would dare to try this out.

I'm talking about the USB Mini Fridge. An interesting USB gadget that, according to gizmodo.com, can chill your drinks in around 5 minutes and a cool 47 degrees F.

At the host of the show explained he basically could take the chips or plate that cools down your drink and use it to cool down chips on a PC. So my curiosity is, has anyone heard of such an experiment? Would you dare to replace the fan (or add to it) with this plate? Operating it should be a breeze since the gadget already comes wired to work with a USB connection. What do you think? Is this possible and maybe useful? Could this actually keep a CPU cool or could the heat from the CPU overpower the cooling plate? I can only imagine the elaborate clamp one would have to invent to hold this plate against the CPU. Any ideas?

Comments (Page 2)

CharlesCS

on Oct 14, 2009

A running CPU is a far better heater than some pissy drink fridge is a cooler....

Ok then, maybe we can reverse this weird project and instead of using a mini usb fridge to cool down a CPU, hows about we use a few CPUs to gill a burger?

DrJBHL

on Oct 14, 2009

Sounds cheesy to me....and what would you do if you burned your buns?

scorpNZ

on Oct 14, 2009

Mens cookbook:

Remove mobo

place it in alumium tray

fill tray with cooking oil

bring oil to temperature

place chips

eat when cooked

Fuzzy Logic

on Oct 14, 2009

My cookbook:

Get in car

Drive to chippy

Spend £3.55

Drive home

Eat fish and chips

pseudomelon

on Oct 14, 2009

Jafo

reply 15

Wouldn't the cooling pad create condensation around the CPU? That can't be good.
No....the CPU would cook the pad before any such thing.

A running CPU is a far better heater than some pissy drink fridge is a cooler....

Well I meant, assuming the thing could be successful in other circumstances.

TheD2JBug

on Oct 14, 2009

considering I can heat my room with the PC in it .... uhhh ...no

Kaltes

on Oct 14, 2009

The cooling pad would not do the job, however you could build a aircompretion cooler used in some frigerators to cool the entire computer case.

I have always wanted to put a toster in my computer tower, one that can do toast, bagles, and mabey even muffins.

CarGuy1

on Oct 15, 2009

Actually the pad is a "Peltier Cooler" and they work well as a CPU cooler. Here's one that's designed for that purpose.

ULTRA ChillTec 939/AM2/775/i7 Thermal Electric CPU Cooler

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