Outside Air PC Case?

[AtomAlchemist]

Full Disclosure that this question is somewhat inspired by Alex's grow tent video linked below.

 

With next gen components using even more energy, I'm not looking forward to any upgrades as my office gets pretty toasty from my pc already. Has anyone here played with modding a case directly to connect to ductwork for intake and exhaust for outside? 

 

 

 

[JTS_1401]

you can order custom sized grow tents. Custom tents are almost necessary with multi tier 4x T5 florecent grow shelves.

[JTS_1401]

I think this tent would be a better fit. @LinusTech

https://www.nehydro.com/dark-propagator-dp60-2x1-3x2/

[fonzz1e]

5 hours ago, AtomAlchemist said:

next gen components using even more energy

you can always undervolt them without losing much performance when u compare to stock

undervolting does lower its temps

[JTS_1401]

15 hours ago, AtomAlchemist said:

Full Disclosure that this question is somewhat inspired by Alex's grow tent video linked below.

 

With next gen components using even more energy, I'm not looking forward to any upgrades as my office gets pretty toasty from my pc already. Has anyone here played with modding a case directly to connect to ductwork for intake and exhaust for outside? 

 

 

 

Get a pre 2002 full size atx case with the solid slot covers and stick a bloweematron (NOT A BOWZUKEA!) or a high CFM fan with more then 97 CFM and place it in the front fan mount. place a duct fitting on the rear 80mm fan mount and place an identical spec 80mm fan in the back. Simply use the isolated ducting to the outside. Glue black fabric to the inside of the side panels for extra heat insulation. 

 

The old business ATX cases have alot lower airflow demands so they tend to lack top, bottom, and side vents.

[JTS_1401]

6 minutes ago, JTS_1401 said:

Get a pre 2002 full size atx case with the solid slot covers and stick a bloweematron (NOT A BOWZUKEA!) or a high CFM fan with more then 97 CFM and place it in the front fan mount. place a duct fitting on the rear 80mm fan mount and place an identical spec 80mm fan in the back. Simply use the isolated ducting to the outside. Glue black fabric to the inside of the side panels for extra heat insulation. 

 

The old business ATX cases have alot lower airflow demands so they tend to lack top, bottom, and side vents.

Hey @AtomAlchemist,

 

here is a non business case that should not need too much work to bring to the business cases but will need all of the holes plugged. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155132716282?hash=item241ea164fa:g:BeIAAOSwnOFjBnMd

[AtomAlchemist]

1 hour ago, JTS_1401 said:

Get a pre 2002 full size atx case with the solid slot covers and stick a bloweematron (NOT A BOWZUKEA!) or a high CFM fan with more then 97 CFM and place it in the front fan mount. place a duct fitting on the rear 80mm fan mount and place an identical spec 80mm fan in the back. Simply use the isolated ducting to the outside. Glue black fabric to the inside of the side panels for extra heat insulation. 

 

The old business ATX cases have alot lower airflow demands so they tend to lack top, bottom, and side vents.

 

Haha that's kind of what I was thinking when asking if anyone had done something like this instead of a grow tent. Instead of having all that indirect air exchange, source ductwork from window to a 200mm fan (maybe not a blowzuka but something with pretty good cfm) through a pretty tightly sealed case, and then exhausted out with another fan. 

[JTS_1401]

33 minutes ago, AtomAlchemist said:

 

Haha that's kind of what I was thinking when asking if anyone had done something like this instead of a grow tent. Instead of having all that indirect air exchange, source ductwork from window to a 200mm fan (maybe not a blowzuka but something with pretty good cfm) through a pretty tightly sealed case, and then exhausted out with another fan. 

I rigged up one of my rigs with an air conditioner tempature relay switch and it is hilarious because the pentium 1 inside generates so little heat the computer can't keep the switch on in the winter. Modern hardware produces plenty of heat in the winter keep the computer going. 

[AtomAlchemist]

12 hours ago, fonzz1e said:

you can always undervolt them without losing much performance when u compare to stock

undervolting does lower its temps

yeah, I generally run my GPU undervolted to 875mv currently with cpu stock since it's on a 65w cpu. Looking at next gen and beyond everything is going up a lot so I'd like to remove  that heat from the room.

[JTS_1401]

17 hours ago, AtomAlchemist said:

yeah, I generally run my GPU undervolted to 875mv currently with cpu stock since it's on a 65w cpu. Looking at next gen and beyond everything is going up a lot so I'd like to remove  that heat from the room.

with my pentium rig heat only comes out of the back 80 mm fan and sound blaster ISA card's headphones Jack's. That is pretty good heat exhaust concentration. That is why I recommend an old business case. I can take out the pentiun system an put my Ryzen 9 5950x dual RTX 3090 system into its case and let you know if the exhaust and airflow remain the same. If you want I also have heat and cooling loads to simulate upto 320 watts of synthetic heat load in the case. look forward to hearing if you want me to test this.