an innovative way to cool a pc?

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zaroba

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with summer here, and warm temps outside, who wants a pc heating up a room inside? definatly not me. with my pc running, the heat i feel coming off it is almost like that of a toaster. mainly from the 8800. the pc will actually keep my room around 10-15F warmer then the rest of the house.

so i had this thought.
what if you were to take a dryer vent hose, attach it to the PC case where most of the warm air comes out, and run it to your window? maybe put a fan at the window end of it too so you have better airflow. at the window you could just use a piece of plywood that has a hole cut in it to allow the pipe to go out so theres no big open space.

the fan at the pc would push the air into the tube, the fan at the window would pull the air out the tube and the heat from the comp gets blown right out of the house.
 
sounds OK
you'd would have to get a lot of the hot air to move into the tube to keep it efficient though, and I don't know how well it would flow through the tube, depending how long it is
and if it works, you can change it to bring in cold air in the winter if you have cold winters like we do :)
 
It depends on how far the ducting has to go, if it's a long distance you could add a fan on the other end to pull the air out


water cooling setup + Wisconsin in the winter + anti freeze = extreme OCing
 
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