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Hacksmith Industries: Cooling A PC… With Fire
2022-12-17 | By The Hacksmith
License: See Original Project
This project was created by Engineering Superheroes of Hacksmith Industries.
DO NOT ATTEMPT to Re-Create
PC cooling has come a long way in the last few years and more people are overclocking their rigs than ever. Water cooling went from something that only the nicest machines had to being common in most gaming PCs. Fans now have LEDs that can change colors with a command from the user. Despite all these advancements becoming more accessible, at the end of the day, a computer can only stay as cool as the room that it’s sitting in.
A water-cooled PC can outperform air cooling, but it can’t get below zero degrees Celsius because the water will freeze. So unless you want to play games in a freezer, the odds of keeping your PC below zero degrees were nearly impossible.
That is until Bogdan from Hacksmith Industries found a way to do it… with fire! See how flames were used to cool a PC in the video below!
How Does It Work?
The process that makes this flaming PC work is called evaporative cooling (or enthalpy of vaporization). When a liquid changes state to a gas, heat is pulled away from the surface that fluid was sitting on. This process is used to cool people down when they sweat: heat is pulled from a person’s skin when their sweat evaporates. Refrigerators also use evaporative cooling by compressing refrigerant into liquid, and turning it back to gas, in a loop.
This system sprays liquid propane onto the CPU’s thermal block. The propane flows through two lines: one acts like a pilot light with minimal flow to hold a flame, and the other is connected to the computer's fan header, which uses a basic circuit to control a solenoid to release additional propane as the CPU temperature rises. This enables the CPU to get sub-zero, and it achieve incredible efficiency and performance! You’ll just want to keep the fireball away from your setup, or it will melt your case and monitor… and possibly your neighborhood.
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