Utlimate computer cooling

[MikaelBear]

Hey everyone,

 

I was wondering if it would be possible to cool a computer by using an air conditioner, or something of the sort.

You can have a huge fan running outside your home, with tubes running all the way to your computer.

 

You wouldn't have any fan noise, as it will be outside, and you can have big powerful fans instead of the usual smaller ones.

 

What do you think?

[Adorable Cat]

You probably could, I'd duct tape one of those long dryer vent tubes to the AC and then attach that to one of the case fan spots, or maybe right to the CPU heatsink. I've thought about doing it for no reason other than fun once but didn't have an AC or dryer vents

[Evanair]

Whatever you do, don't do what the above says. It'll cause massive corrosion inside your system with all of the condensation.

 

Other PC based YouTube channels have done this, by blowing an AC across a water cooling radiator, and it works.  It's just not necessarily efficient in any way.

 

My favorite one was when a Scandinavian YouTuber put his PC out in the freezing snow and ran the cables through his window.

[Adorable Cat]

On 7/21/2018 at 10:37 AM, Evanair said:

Whatever you do, don't do what the above says. It'll cause massive corrosion inside your system with all of the condensation.

 

thanks, I was actually legitimately going to try it until I read this.

[Evanair]

1 hour ago, Sayori said:

thanks, I was actually legitimately going to try it until I read this.

If you want to use AC, have it blow across the radiators. It cools the effected components, especially if you have a monoblock to cool vrm as well as the CPU.

 

I've been wanting to do a rig using a loop connected to a car radiator, then blow an AC through the radiator and see how well that would work

[ninbura]

Simply running your radiator in a separate room is much more logical, as @Evanair was saying condensation is a real issue with sub ambient temperatures.