Acetone in water cooling system
Acetone in water cooling system
Only because it seems chilly doesn't guarantee the same cooling effect on equipment as with hardware.
Devbiker is asking about your temperatures—does your chip seem disoriented? That might actually be the most effective step you can take right now. The acetone suggestion isn’t clear, but it seems to stem from an experiment mixing dry ice with acetone in an LN2 setup. Jayz2cents demonstrated this on his YouTube channel. Extending this method to closed-loop cooling is risky. Also, feeling cold on your skin is a reasonable sign that the approach could help cool your hardware. The rapid evaporation of acetone during a phase change helps remove heat, but simply spraying it without proper conditions won’t work. Just misting a fine spray of acetone onto your CPU cooler could be the solution.
LN2 pots made of copper or nickel behave quite differently from the plastics and acrylics commonly used for liquid cooling. Also, jayz2cents...I'll hold off on commenting right now. I understand your reasoning, but in a cooling loop, acetone won't evaporate—that’s not how liquid cooling functions. You’re making a direct comparison that doesn’t quite fit. A closed system won’t lose heat through evaporation. And if it did, you’d just be creating another heatpipe, which is already present. You’d also need to handle a much larger amount of heat, which isn’t feasible. These are fundamentally different principles compared to a liquid cooling setup.
drea.drechsler :
I understand your point, but in a cooling loop acetone won't evaporate—that's not how liquid cooling operates. Exactly what I mentioned. 😉
You expressed it more clearly, actually.
Sorry, I wasn't attempting to take the lead.
Acetone becomes solid at -139 degrees Fahrenheit. Using dry ice can aid in transferring heat through a liquid.