WoW....Case with a built-in Air Conditioner!

[Mik3y]

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[scrawnypaleguy]

Sweet.

 

[JBDan]

http://www.masscool.com/air_con_tech.asp
I found this... Interesting......Wonder if it really works?

 

[Greenman]

It's just tec cooling. Could make your own pretty easy.

 

[Corporate Thug]

for the much u could get a nice case and a WC setup

 

[cubeless]

what they don't mention is the heat output of the tec... it makes hot to make cold, and the hot has to go somehwere... i bet the exhaust off that thing helps warm the room a bit...

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: cubeless
what they don't mention is the heat output of the tec... it makes hot to make cold, and the hot has to go somehwere... i bet the exhaust off that thing helps warm the room a bit...

Od course the hot air has to go somewhere...
Thats just common sense...
I know of no system that takes the hot air and it just goes away to never never land?

They don`t need to mention the heat output!
Obviously but looking at the case you will notice it has a rear exhaust fan port.
Thus the heat goes where every other computer that generates heat goes.

 

[Bluefront]

Look again...the heat goes out the bottomof the case, while the incoming air is cooled by the cold end of the peltier. The review claims a 6C drop of CPU temps.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Cool, they actually have a cigarette lighter for a 5.25" drive bay, talk about lazy...

 

[CraKaJaX]

lighter is here >> Text

 

[BW86]

thats pretty cool

 

[JBDan]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
lighter is here >> Text

lol :laugh:

 

[frankgomez75]

How loud do you think that setup is? Just curious. Prolly not silent. Wonder if it sounds like a window a/c unit.

 

[BeakerChem]

I wonder if there are any problems with condensation within the case. My favorite technique so far was where someone built a aluminum vent from their A/C vent in the room directly into the front intakes and included a dessicant bed to dry the air at the same time - so cool dry air went directly through. Crank the AC up in the house, or have that run from a cheap-o window unit in the room itself, and you could really drop temps on a computer. Especially since a window unit could be made to run continuously and the A/C heat would be exhausted out the window in any case.

 

[GnomeCop]

pretty cool until you see the price.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: BeakerChem
I wonder if there are any problems with condensation within the case. My favorite technique so far was where someone built a aluminum vent from their A/C vent in the room directly into the front intakes and included a dessicant bed to dry the air at the same time - so cool dry air went directly through. Crank the AC up in the house, or have that run from a cheap-o window unit in the room itself, and you could really drop temps on a computer. Especially since a window unit could be made to run continuously and the A/C heat would be exhausted out the window in any case.

A case for the OCed intel?

BeakerChem, as the heat in the air is picked up by the AC's evaporater condensation also collects and will drain into a small catch pan. On some window units and all cars this drains to the ground. Cold air can't hold as much H2O as warm air. Cold air is dry, so condensate in the PC won't happen. If a hot PC was put in a freezer, there would be condensation. Warm camera lenses can fog up during winter photography.

Some AC units take the condensate and pump/gravity it over the hot condenser.
This gets rid of the water as hot moist air. On this case that is probably the case.




Galvanized

 

[albumleaf]

ac+watercooling

 

[LoneWolf1]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
lighter is here >> Text

Cup Holder with Lighter >> Text

 

[Greenman]

I always thought condensation collected on the cool surface, not the warm one? And either way, a 120 wat tec cooler isn't going to cool any computer to the point where you would get condensation. A waste if you ask me.

Edit: Just checked, condensation always collects on the cooler surface.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: Greenman
I always thought condensation collected on the cool surface, not the warm one? And either way, a 120 wat tec cooler isn't going to cool any computer to the point where you would get condensation. A waste if you ask me.

Edit: Just checked, condensation always collects on the cooler surface.

I've worked on too many automotive AC systems.
Yes, as the air passes though the evaporater the heat is pulled out of it. This causes the moisture to condense *ON*the evaperater. Being heavy add attracted to itself it forms large drops and falls off. A small hole will most likley divert it to the condenser. Being hot, the water will evaporate as the cooling air for the condener passes through it.

I was going to try an explanation of how AC works but if you go to, howstuffworks.com,
I am sure they will do a much better job of it.

Galvanized

 

[kamranziadar]

Interesting, this is the first time i see heat ventilation is in the bottom. Hot air usually goes up, because it is light and Cold air keeps down because it is heay.
They should have intake in the bottom and exhaust in the top.

 

[Topweasel]

Woot I am sooo going to purchase that case, Heat always goes out at my house, So not only would it make the cold air colder for my PC but also would heat up my Room. Space heater/System cooler for same $ equalls Hapy Me.

 

[govtcheez75]

haha...this reminds me of a few summers ago, I tried ducting a long piece of 5" flexitube from my AC to the side intake fan on my case. It did drop the temps big time, but I got scared of condensation that might form in the case.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Bump

 

[Bluefront]

So what else do you need to know? I'd like to know how loud those fans are.

I'd also like to know if this cooler would do anything for a well set-up case. If you put a cooler like this in a bad airflow case, it might lower cpu temps 6C.....like the review. But what if the CPU was already running fairly cool?

Somebody is going to have to buy one or modify one....I don't trust the reviews on this thing. Not much to compare it to.