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7 minutes ago, ✪ Kavinsky said:

ye but what would happen if i woudlnt cool my pc well.. will it explode or will it just crash??

It will explode

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I mean, having worms in your room might not be a great idea.

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There are a lot of components such as motherboard VRMs that are passively cooled by the case airflow. No airflow means they don't get cooled. You also need fans to pull the hot air out of the case as well.

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1 minute ago, ✪ Kavinsky said:

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i get why you cool your GPU or CPU because of overheating , but why should i cool my case when i dont care if my room gets wormer ?

What do you mean cool your case? There's no one out there mounting heatsinks to the outside of their cases. I assume you're asking why do people have case fans? They bring in fresh air and exhaust warm air which aids in cooling the CPU and GPU.

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Because your XPU's and PSU need to get the old hot air out and the new cool air in.

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Keeping your ambient temps down don't have anything to do with keeping room temps down. In fact , the lower you can get your ambient temps, the higher your room temp will most likely get, as your computer will be expelling more heat. You should care about ambient temps because they play a big factor in your CPU/GPU temps, as wll as all other hardware inside your case.

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2 minutes ago, ✪ Kavinsky said:

ye but what would happen if i woudlnt cool my pc well.. will it explode or will it just crash??

No, it is not going to explode. If you don't cool it well, depending on how hot it gets, you will run into thermal throttling and eventually it will crash, not to mention shortening the lifespan of your components.

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3 minutes ago, ✪ Kavinsky said:

ye but what would happen if i woudlnt cool my pc well.. will it explode or will it just crash??

On modern hardware with safeguards in place, it'll run poorly due to thermal throttling and then shut down after reaching a certain temperature.

 

On older hardware, it will probably smoke and/or catch fire, and then it will shut down.

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12 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

There's no one out there mounting heatsinks to the outside of their cases

You don't know that.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

You don't know that.

 

 

Okay fair enough, I guess you could argue those passively cooled cases technically do have heatsinks mounted to the outside of them.

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21 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

What do you mean cool your case? There's no one out there mounting heatsinks to the outside of their cases. I assume you're asking why do people have case fans? They bring in fresh air and exhaust warm air which aids in cooling the CPU and GPU.

bruh https://www.logicsupply.com/products/features/fanless-computers/  and I'm pretty sure Linus covered some pretty cool fanless pcs that used the case as a giant heatsink

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Just now, Theguywhobea said:

Okay fair enough, I guess you could argue those passively cooled cases technically do have heatsinks mounted to the outside of them.

 

Just now, Cyracus said:

bruh https://www.logicsupply.com/products/features/fanless-computers/  and I'm pretty sure Linus covered some pretty cool fanless pcs that used the case as a giant heatsink

While technically, the case is being cooled, it IS the heatsink. Whereas I bet there is someone actually dumb enough to attatch fins to a case for the functionality of cooling it.

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39 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

While technically, the case is being cooled, it IS the heatsink. Whereas I bet there is someone actually dumb enough to attatch fins to a case for the functionality of cooling it.

I think I posted at the same time as them lol... but yeah, people will do all kinds of stupid crap if no one stops them like putting a flamethrower in a pc case, or put an automotive hood scoop on it...

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40 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

I think I posted at the same time as them lol... but yeah, people will do all kinds of stupid crap if no one stops them like putting a flamethrower in a pc case, or put an automotive hood scoop on it...

Well, bith could look cool if done right....

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If there's nothing driving fresh air into case and nothing taking hot air out, your components will slowly gain hotter and hotter temps. They will get some fresh air with passive airflow, but nothing is taking all that hot air out. Just single exhaust fan will do wonders.

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