Discussion Concentrated Airflow Cooling (Concept)

[Gamefreaknet]

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(Not sure of a Title that sums it all up)

But currently we have components that draw air through the front and out the back (often 2/3 fans on the front and 1 rear exhaust). The GPU uses some of that air that gets drawn in and exhausts through its own backplate and assuming in this case it was a fan cooled CPU

Now take into account how Liquid Cooling works, a Liquid radiator (mounted in some position) drawing in air to cool the liquid to in return cool the CPU (or GPU if you have a loop or a liquid cooled AIO GPU).

Often Liquid Cooling is considered more expensive as it is from - the retail price AND possible pump/mechanical failure after a while of use.

If we were to however apply the same concept of liquid cooling pipes to Air Cooling and instead use those pipes to directly apply cooling to parts that need cooling (like direct mounts)

[Break inserted] that would in theory allow for less Air being lost from being drawn in and passively cooling and more of a concentration of the likely fresher air outside the case being "drawn in" directly to components that get the hottest (aka the CPU and GPU).

The bracket for GPU's (air cooled not sure how it would be applied to AIO GPUs) would obviously vary depending per the GPU length so the air can be pumped directly to the GPU fans. and The GPU already self manages its own exhausting whilst the CPU exhaust could be looped just like a AIO loops its liquid back to the radiator but instead to the CPU exhaust fan (since it's just air).


Off the start it might be slightly more expensive considering if intakes are used both for the GPU and CPU (not isolated from each other)

thered need to be some sort of pressure chamber to prevent backflow of hotter air into the fresh intake air and something that manages moisture (considering hot air rises, generates moisture, some system to prevent that build up)

however more fresh air concentrated onto components than passively dissipated throughout the case (correct me if I'm wrong here) I think would cause lower temps. (Might be messier to setup and slightly more expensive)

 

[Ralston18]

@Gamefreaknet

I edited your Discussion post as noted.

However, what you need to do is to include your own thoughts and answers/responses to the issues and questions being conceptually raised.

Be specific, provide details, cite references.

 

[Order 66]

interesting concept, I think that the reason why this isn't a thing is because even if you could have no air wasted (not possible) you would reach the thermal conductivity limit, thus offsetting any real benefits from this, hence the reason why something like this is only used in water cooling.