industrial cooling solution

**industrial cooling solution -** 08-13-2004, 13:01 | posts: n/a

I have an air conditioning wall unit sitting in my garage, its like 5 or 6 thousand BTU's or something. I was thinking of pluging it in and running ducting to my video card, CPU, and mobo strait from that AC. I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this or herd of someone tring this. I figure that the abient temps in the box directly effect my card temps so mabie making my computer into a refrigerator would extend the life of it. The only problems that i can see are first of all the obvious one "POWER", and where to put that goliath of a cooling solution. The condesation in the box should not be a problem since i live in the desert and humidity is alien to me. I firgure the air conditioner will have to go outside beacuse of the noise and the heat it produces. If it goes out side i am going to have to run the ducting from outside which is a pain, but there is no way around it.

Any thoughts comments or cut lows are welcome and encouraged.

PhonyEye · 08-13-2004, 13:09 | posts: 1,134 | Location: Israel

that sounds pretty "cool"

, but doesn't the Air Conditioning Unit consume a lot of electricity power?
thus you'd simply pay a lot of money on electricity only for cooling down your computer?

BLyarx · 08-13-2004, 15:42 | posts: 2,983

Just sell the aircon and buy a vapo-chill that'll be more resonable.

**Re: industrial cooling solution -** 08-14-2004, 01:35 | posts: n/a

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Originally posted by Blahm
I have an air conditioning wall unit sitting in my garage, its like 5 or 6 thousand BTU's or something. I was thinking of pluging it in and running ducting to my video card, CPU, and mobo strait from that AC. I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this or herd of someone tring this. I figure that the abient temps in the box directly effect my card temps so mabie making my computer into a refrigerator would extend the life of it. The only problems that i can see are first of all the obvious one "POWER", and where to put that goliath of a cooling solution. The condesation in the box should not be a problem since i live in the desert and humidity is alien to me. I firgure the air conditioner will have to go outside beacuse of the noise and the heat it produces. If it goes out side i am going to have to run the ducting from outside which is a pain, but there is no way around it.

Any thoughts comments or cut lows are welcome and encouraged.

i have seen it some where exactly that worked really good for the guy has had it running for months no problems at all temps like 60f on cpu i think do it it works