Air Conditioning Cooling?

[EthanCoow]

An weird idea came to me.

 

If we use a air conditioning to provide cool air into an air cooled PC, will the CPU and GPU run cooler?

[TidaLWaveZ]

If the cool air is constantly blowing into the PC it should lower the ambient temperature.  When the ambient temperature is lower the CPU and GPU temps will correlate.

 

The temperature difference likely won't be worth the price of powering the AC though.

[Andrew Storlie]

NEVER run ac directly into a pc.... EVER your pc will die

[RocknRolla94]

I have been using a floor to window AC as my wife and I have FX 8350's OC'ed which turn our office into an oven. So far no issues, going on 2-3 years with this setup. But the vents are around 2-3 feet from the rigs in the corner but it has yielded what seems like better performance. Maybe it's all in my head, but they computers feel better when under great load.

[Theminecraftaddict555]

As long if it doesn't make your pc too cold, you should be fine

 

But chances are it most likely will, so i would highly recommend you not to do that unless your pc is running like a full on high temp heater<<If you are putting the ac fan directly towards the computer which you shouldn't

 

If the ac fan is just simply facing your room where the computer is and not very directly towards your computer, it should be fine 

[Theminecraftaddict555]

Yes.

 

Computers love air conditioned rooms, be it air cooled or watercooled.

 

It lowers ambient temp and filters out most of the dust for you.

 

Better temps and less maintenance.

 

However if you're talking about a a dedicated air conditioning unit for your PC, that's called a phase change cooler. Those are very expensive, bulky and only cool the CPU.

The temp can't be too low, or like linus stated "Water droplets will form on the components = dead components" 

 

But since he is not putting the ac fan directly towards the pc it should be fine hopefully 

[michaelocarroll007]

An weird idea came to me.

 

If we use a air conditioning to provide cool air into an air cooled PC, will the CPU and GPU run cooler?

Lower the Room Temperature lower the CPU and GPU will Run but Having a Ac directly Piped/Blowing into the PC could be a bad idea due to condensation of water in the PC like when a cold glass is in a warm room and condensation forms on the outer part of the glass Having it Close to an AC in the room so its in the coldest area of the room would be the best for this and would defiantly help a good couple degrees but it wont bring a 80c GPU card down to 60c.  

[Megahurt]

Yes it will, if the temp of the air going into your case  is 10° cooler than room temp, your components will be 10° cooler. During use, all the condensation will happen inside the AC unit, but if you turn both off at the same time, there could be components inside the system that are cooler than ambient and therefore is possible that some condensation may occurs, if your turn the ac off before the computer and let the components warm up before shutting it down, it should be no problem, or you could just never turn off the AC.