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Heat is the constant nemesis of any computer enthusiast,

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and between custom water loops, RGB fans, and beefy tower-style heat sinks,

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a massive industry is sprung up around keeping your precious components as cool as possible.

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Not a problem for me. But is all this effort for nothing?

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I mean, nearly all of us have a refrigerator in our homes

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to reliably create a cold environment so we don't get food poisoning

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from our leftover Frito-Pie. So why can't we just stick our computers in the fridge

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and forgo all of these expensive cooling gadgets?

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Well, other than the fact that your cables will stick out of the fridge and cause you to lose cold air, embarrassing,

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there are actually some pretty big issues with the idea. The first thing to remember is that a refrigerator

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is designed to remove heat from food and then turn off its own compressor

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once everything inside gets down to a cold enough temperature, relying on insulation to keep things cold for a while

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before it has to kick back on. Although the fridge might have to work harder

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if you put in a bunch of Thanksgiving turkey that's at room temperature,

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it can still handle the tasks since the turkey isn't going to be continually

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spitting out tons of heat. Computer components, on the other hand,

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generate lots of heat, especially when you're running doom eternal at 8K

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or unzipping all that RAM you downloaded. In even the best case scenario,

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a refrigerator's compressor won't be able to remove all that continuous heat quickly enough,

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meaning the inside of the fridge could actually become warm.

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And at worst, you could end up damaging the fridge as the compressor constantly strains to cool things down.

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On top of that, you'd run a high risk of actually wrecking your components.

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Suppose you leave a PC inside a fridge for long enough for the component surfaces to cool off.

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Any moisture inside your refrigerator could then condense on your components,

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just as it condenses on a cold drink on a hot, humid day.

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That certainly looks super refreshing in a soda commercial, but PC components don't drink soda.

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That's a free tech tip right there. If your PC components get wet, they could short out.

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And suffice it to say that your crazy experiment to prolong the life of your electronics

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would come to an ironic, tragic end. And if you put your PC in a fridge

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that you open regularly, this risk would be even greater

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as you'd probably introduce more warm, moist air

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every time you open it. Disgusting. But why don't radiators and water coolers

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that are designed for computer parts suffer from the same problems?

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Well, although these solutions market themselves with cool names like PrimoChill and TwinFrozer,

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your components are still much warmer than ambient.

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Even if you have an awesome cooler that keeps your high performance CPU and GPU

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below 60 degrees Celsius under load, that's still going to be much warmer

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than the ambient room temperature, unless you're living in a walk-in barbecue,

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in which case I think you have more immediate problems to worry about. Remember, a component that's hot to the touch

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can still be cool enough to function with no issues.

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You just don't want them to be literally frozen.

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Just let it go. On top of that, computer cooling products

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are designed better for continuous active heat exchange

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than a home refrigerator is. Heat pipes, water pumps, and fans

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operate the entire time your computer is powered on to draw heat away from your components

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and ultimately dispel it into open space without breaking down your cooler.

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Contrast that with a fridge that instead relies on insulation

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to keep heat from getting in, as well as a compressor that's not designed

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to be running all the time. Otherwise, you'd have to go catch it.

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Now, all this isn't to say there aren't exotic cooling

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solutions that a refrigerator like that can cool electronics properly.

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Some enthusiasts have invested in expensive phase change cooling systems

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that operate using similar principles to a fridge, and air conditioners that help cool data centers

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also use evaporating liquid to keep all those servers from overheating.

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But as far as trying to stick your PC inside your mini fridge,

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you're much better off just using it to stop your bologna sandwiches from spoiling.

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And if they do, make a better sandwich. Bologna, John?

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