Etter et par tre søk på google, begynner dette å se ut som en veldig dårlig idè.
Her er ett eksempel:
''About once a week a thread pops up with the novel idea of using a refrigerator to cool a PC. A fridge is cold, we need a cool CPU, put the two together and it's pure genius! Right? Wrong.
So why won't it work? A refrigerator is basically a phase change system. It uses the idea of phase change to keep things cool. It is very important to differentiate this from cooling things down. A refrigerator will not be able to pull away the amounts of heat that a CPU produces, because it is actively producing heat. Your ham, on the other hand, is not.
To illustrate this point, empty your fridge and stick a warm 2 Liter bottle of soda in it. Wait ten seconds and pull it out. Is it cold? No. Put it back in, wait ten minutes. Is it cold? No. A refrigerator will take a relatively long time to cool down a 2 Liter bottle at ambient temperature. Putting something that actively produces heat, such as a CPU, will cause the fridge to constantly run, always trying to cool down air that it has no chance of ever cooling. This constant running will burn out the compressor by overstressing it in a matter of hours or, if you are lucky, days.
The operation of the compressor in a fridge puts another nail in the coffin of the fridge cooler. If you go to your fridge right now and listen to it, it may very well be silent. This is because the compressor does not run constantly. Rather, it runs for a few seconds, switches off, waits for a while, then switches back on. This suffices for refrigeration purposes since, during time for which the compressor has been off, no additional energy (heat) has been put into the system. The food will not warm itself up, so there is no need to constantly cool it. A CPU, on the other hand, will produce enough heat to burn itself out during the time for which the compressor is off. (Thanks lonnie - forgot about that)
To summarize, a refrigerator cannot cool something that is constantly producing heat. It is designed to keep cold things cold. It is able to take something from room temperature and make it cold, but just barely. If your fridge can barely handle a 2 Liter, what chance does it stand against a Prescott?
Now With Actual Data!
Somebody on the forums (mashersmasher) actually tried the fridge PC idea and timed it to see how long the compressor lasts. After a little more than a day the compressor burned to the touch and started to give out. While the fridge cooled the CPU to an extent (a bit over room temperature at stock settings) it was neither an efficient nor a particularly good cooler.
The thread can be found
here.''
Kilde:
http://www.overclock.net/t/105345/in...e-as-pc-cooler