Has anyone tried this?

[HouRman]

At stores they have small window air conditioners that get very cold. If you set up a duct leading from the airconditioner to the intake of your computer, would that significantly change the temperatures.

What could also be done is a duct leading from your house air conditioner port, leading into your case.

I can see that condensation might pose a problem, but would the very cold air temperatures inside the case do much?

I don't think it would make a big difference if you used peltiers and water cooling, but it would be a cool to try it out.

 

[Dyflam]

Ambient temperature goes down, CPU temperature goes down.

 

[Czar]

the problem with those things are noise.. very loud

 

[crazyjoekuta]

yea, the only problem is that you can't really move your computer anymore. worth a shot, though. i would keep you're computer box's airflow rate under the airflow rate of the a/c, so the cold a/c has a chance to cool the stuff (and doesn't have to catch up to a higher flow rate). otherwise, you're blowing cold air in and cold air out. you might even just want to close off your box, and just let the computer chill.

 

[Vegito]

Last night it hit 40°, room temp was around 52° and computer temp was around 72°. CPU around 78°. Unless the reading is wrong.. Temperature is lower overall but oc-ed speed didn't improve. My server room is 61-65° constant from AC, no condensation but we don't use a peltier

 

[Alphacowboy]

Since most of the hardware in the system can handle room temp... what I would do is make a air duct the goes from the A/C unit to the Heatsink on the CPU, by condensing the air flow to one area it will substantially cool your processor! You will need to make a custom case design but hey if you get it to work it would be cool... no pun intended!