Venting Outside

[xnamkcor]

How feasible would it be to vent CPU heat outside? I was thinking of buying some dryer duct tube thing and running it to a vent. My major concerns are making it so water can't get in the vent. I'm in a place where once a year we get winds and rain, so just pointing it down might not be enough.

 

Maybe in the winter I could also intake cold air from outside. Granted, my PC usually acts as a heater in the winter. The one winter my PC was not working, I had to buy a space heater.

[Paralectic]

I don't think it's a good idea because the risks and the effort, you're better off getting a closed loop water cooler or a high end air cooler and just deal with the heat inside of your case/room.

[xnamkcor]

I don't think it's a good idea because the risks and the effort, you're better off getting a closed loop water cooler or a high end air cooler and just deal with the heat inside of your case/room.

The purpose of the project was to remove the heat from the room.

"Deal with it" is not a solution.

[seabass9990]

Go watercooling it wont be as hot/warm in your room and case

[Antistatic12]

Mods like this require more thought and planning. I guess just be careful. It can be done though.

[xnamkcor]

Go watercooling it wont be as hot/warm in your room and case

I'm no rocket surgeon, but I do not believe that is how thermodynamics work.

 

PS: While keeping case temps down is important, I'm more concerned with room temp for this project. So if it's a little warm in the case, that is fine.

 

 

Mods like this require more thought and planning. I guess just be careful. It can be done though.

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Hmmmm, that looks almost right, but I'd probably hook it up to a side of the case. That looks like they have a specific part they want to cool.

[seabass9990]

How hot is it in your room that you need this???

[Zeke]

Go watercooling it wont be as hot/warm in your room and case

Watercooling does not magically decrease the amount of heat the system produces, it just changes how the heat spreads in the case (and sometimes outside of it). I don't think this will help in OP's situation, except maybe if he hooks the radiator from AC system to it (I wonder if anybody tried that).

[xnamkcor]

How hot is it in your room that you need this???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa,_Arizona#Climate

 

 

Watercooling does not magically decrease the amount of heat the system produces, it just changes how the heat spreads in the case (and sometimes outside of it). I don't think this will help in OP's situation, except maybe if he hooks the radiator from AC system to it (I wonder if anybody tried that).

 

Maybe I can direct the lines outside and just have the radiator and fans outside and somehow isolate the power for the fans. Then I can use cheap or outdoor fans and if it rains enough that they stop working, I can just replace them.

[dragosudeki]

Have your computer outside and then hook up your cables through a hole in the wall? Or put it in another room

[Guest]

Is it really that hot?

[xnamkcor]

Have your computer outside and then hook up your cables through a hole in the wall? Or put it in another room

"Have your computer outside". I really hope you meant "inside".

 

All the rooms in the house are connected(It's a house). And we don't exactly have a "spare room that's just lying around".

 

 

 

Is it really that hot?

 

I'm not a weatherologist, so I cannot personally attest to the information Wikipedia claims.

[seabass9990]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa,_Arizona#Climate

 

 

 

Maybe I can direct the lines outside and just have the radiator and fans outside and somehow isolate the power for the fans. Then I can use cheap or outdoor fans and if it rains enough that they stop working, I can just replace them.

and i complain about the 82 my computer puts my room at.

[xnamkcor]

and i complain about the 82 my computer puts my room at.

82 Celsius?

[Partyrocker]

Watercooling does not magically decrease the amount of heat the system produces, it just changes how the heat spreads in the case (and sometimes outside of it). I don't think this will help in OP's situation, except maybe if he hooks the radiator from AC system to it (I wonder if anybody tried that).

Water cooling could be the best if he/she mounts the radiator at the top with the fans blowing up. Then have the ac duct/tube run from there to the window.

[xnamkcor]

Water cooling could be the best if he/she mounts the radiator at the top with the fans blowing up. Then have the ac duct/tube run from there to the window.

Or just embed the Rad into the vent.

 

Disregard that, I'm an idiot. The vent blows air into the room.

 

Maybe find some way to vent into the attic?

[Partyrocker]

Or just embed the Rad into the vent.

 

Disregard that, I'm an idiot. The vent blows air into the room.

 

Maybe find some way to vent into the attic?

If you see the picture further up in this post, you could use that kind of vent to expel the heat

[xnamkcor]

If you see the picture further up in this post, you could use that kind of vent to expel the heat

Yes. That's the easy part. The hard part is making it exit the room without just pumping it back into the living space and no allowing water to go into it.

 

Making a vent that goes into the attic seems to satisfy both of those.

 

Liquid Cooling has the advantage of being easily sealed using weather sealing and being robust enough to withstand weather. In harsh weather, a dryer vent might break. Using solid ductwork would solve that, but the cost would go up, severely.

[BoDyBaG2224]

Alternatively, and possibly easier/more effective you can just get a floor fan to circulate the air in the room and move it to other parts of the house. That imo, is more feasible then venting it outside.

 

This is what I do living in Florida. I have a small floor fan near my case and I just have it on to circulate the air and get it to move out of the room. You can set up multiple fans if need be: 1) to move the air from the case/where you are towards an exit where you have another fan that pushes the air out of the room to "hopefully" a larger room.

[seabass9990]

82 Celsius?

no farenhight i converted because your american

[Raimondas Urbas]

How about summer? Wont it warm the computer up?

[xnamkcor]

no farenhight i converted because your american

In what country do you hail from? It looks like English, but capitilization rules are nonexistent and "You're" is spelled oddly. Maybe a language that focuses on spoken word and culls grammatical or printed rules.

 

Edit, Fahrenheit also seems to be nispelled, but written in such a way that it would be pronounced correctly. Are you Japanese?

 

 

How about summer? Wont it warm the computer up?

 

Only if, by some freak accident, my vent fan starts spinning backwards and the outside temperature exceeds the temperature of the computer.

 

Alternatively, and possibly easier/more effective you can just get a floor fan to circulate the air in the room and move it to other parts of the house. That imo, is more feasible then venting it outside.

 

This is what I do living in Florida. I have a small floor fan near my case and I just have it on to circulate the air and get it to move out of the room. You can set up multiple fans if need be: 1) to move the air from the case/where you are towards an exit where you have another fan that pushes the air out of the room to "hopefully" a larger room.

 

 

Why solve a problem, when you can just make it someone else's problem?

[seabass9990]

In what country do you hail from? It looks like English, but capitilization rules are nonexistent and "You're" is spelled oddly. Maybe a language that focuses on spoken word and culls grammatical or printed rules.

 

Edit, Fahrenheit also seems to be nispelled, but written in such a way that it would be pronounced correctly. Are you Japanese?

nope from brantford ontario canada and have very bad spelling and grammar skills, i never have had a good mark in english and had to go to speach therapy to learn how to speak in the first place. sorry for the inconvenience

[xnamkcor]

nope from brantford ontario canada and have very bad spelling and grammar skills, i never have had a good mark in english and had to go to speach therapy to learn how to speak in the first place. sorry for the inconvenience

Just tell people it's Canadian English. They'll never know. Also, I was close. There is an Ottawa in Canada and Japan.

[schwat]

I reckon something like this should work:

 

 

But seriously I feel your pain here in Texas. I've rigged PC cooling systems out of ducting, cardboard, duct tape & box fans in an attempt to keep room temps down in the middle of summer before. It's a real bastard when it's midnight and its still 90 degrees out & humid.