Ram Air case cooling mod...

[travsav]

My Computer Desk

With that computer case, and the tower being in that enclosed shelf, my temps get pretty nasty... 39 C case temps right now... here's the case...

Scorpio Raidmax 868

Well, the corner that my desk sits in, is right against an outer wall of my house... I'm thinking of cutting a hole in the desk, even with the fan on the window of my case, and running plastic tubing to the outer wall of the house, cutting a hole in this wall, running the plastic through the wall, attaching a powerful fan at the end (to blow air in), and covering the hole in the siding with some type of vent... (probably need a filter somewhere)

This method would work great in the winter time, I'm in ohio... it's only 11 F outside... in the summertime, I was thinking of running an A/C vent to the same hole in my desk, but that's another project...

Any suggestions, or insults for me? haha

I almost bought some parts to do this project yesterday when I was at menards...

 

[Baronz]

Condensation is fun.

 

[travsav]

arg... so that's a purdy bad idea... lol

 

[tracerbullet]

If you were to do it at all, you'd be better off pulling air from inside the house through the case to the outside, to avoid that word mentioned above. Condensation will kill it deader than a doornail.

I had a similar case (Antec 1040) for years in a similar shape desk with no issues at all. I had a pair of Panaflo 80mm fans in the front pulling air in, and a pair in back shoving it out. Had an additional fan (I think 92mm) wedged into the front of that hard drive cage, which worked great. The power supply had it's own fan too of course. Lastly I went around with small pieces of duct tape and closed off any holes in the case that weren't being used by a fan. Worked great, I only recently changed cases to go to a low noise Sonata.

 

[warath]

call me stupid, but don't most air condition units dehumidify (remove the moisture) from the air? So what would it be bad to have that air pushed into a tube (what you could bend to ensure that an moisture does so on the tube, then into the case? (Cool air mind you, not frigid!)
I can't see any better way to air cool your case, and frankly, would think this approach is much better than water cooling even.
That or get your room temp down to 15 C Thought you may not want to work in the same room