Sub-Ambient cooling

Aastii

Aastii

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where can i find out how to get my system internal temperature below the ambient temperature?

I have searched and taht and come up with nothing, could one of you kind people point me in the right direction please
 
I have just read about bong coolers, they seem fairly easy to set up and quite cheap aswell, are they effective?
 
Relatively speaking a bong cooler isnt super hard to build, just the fact that you need to refill the thing often and acts like a humidifier in your house due to evaporation. They arent that cheap either...you need a big enough pump, and then a waterblock, tubing, etc.
 
bomberboysk said:
Relatively speaking a bong cooler isnt super hard to build, just the fact that you need to refill the thing often and acts like a humidifier in your house due to evaporation.
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lmao, yea i know that :P I could always set up a bong cooler and dehumidifier next to each other...my system would be loud beyond belief, but that sob would be cool.
 
Motoxrdude said:
No matter what though, you will get condensation and that's pretty risky.
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Not unless you go below the dew point. For evaporative cooling (e.g. the mentioned bong cooler) it is pretty hard, though not impossible to get below the dew point (locally that is).

Aastii said:
lmao, yea i know that :P I could always set up a bong cooler and dehumidifier next to each other...my system would be loud beyond belief, but that sob would be cool.
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That would just be a really inefficient refrigeration system since a dehumidifier is just a refrigerator.
 
right is there a way to do it then, without making the house like a sauna or my system short because it is covered in water?
 
Motoxrdude said:
I doubt it. Why does it even matter so much?
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because my system is in my living room, the hottest room in the house, the ambient is often fairly high so even if i can get the temp to drop a degree or 2 below the room temperature it will do the system so much good because it will help drop the temps, making my stuff last longer and work better
 
Not quite, lol. 1 or 2 degrees is nothing. Just upgrade in a better CPU cooler and maybe more/better case fans and call it good.
 
Aastii said:
right is there a way to do it then, without making the house like a sauna or my system short because it is covered in water?
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Yes, but like bomberboysk said you'll need a water cooling setup with a strong pump in addition to the bong cooler. The need to refill the reservoir also makes it more dangerous to run constantly or unattended.

Aastii said:
because my system is in my living room, the hottest room in the house, the ambient is often fairly high so even if i can get the temp to drop a degree or 2 below the room temperature it will do the system so much good because it will help drop the temps, making my stuff last longer and work better
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An evaporative cooler/water cooling loop is a lot of work to decrease the CPU temp by a couple degrees. You'd be better off just getting a better HSF or use a plain water loop. Unless you're overclocking, any increase in component longevity would be negligible.

EDIT: The performance of an evaporative cooler will also depend on the relative humidity, so if it's humid where you are then it won't work very well.
 
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Yeti said:
An evaporative cooler/water cooling loop is a lot of work to decrease the CPU temp by a couple degrees. You'd be better off just getting a better HSF or use a plain water loop. Unless you're overclocking, any increase in component longevity would be negligible.

EDIT: The performance of an evaporative cooler will also depend on the relative humidity, so if it's humid where you are then it won't work very well.
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The only real place an evasporative cooler is even semi worth it is in high temperature low humidity environments, such as southwestern united states. In temperate climates a bong cooler just isnt worth it.

Id recommend personally just getting a nice air cooler, such as a lapped TRUE or prolimatech megahalems.

ganzey said:
who said <bong>?
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Wrong idea there, a bong cooler is just a simple evaporative cooler, and it looks somewhat similar to what your thinking of.... which is why it is named such.
 
My heatsink fan is fine, keeps it at a happy temperature, i wanted to know how to do it and if it was possible to do it DIY in a practical way without spending $$$ on it. Seems not really no =/
 
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