Using outdoor air to cool pc?

[machg235]

hi guys, I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, so its below freezing at least 4 months a year. This got me thinking, I just recently built a gaming pc (fx-6300 with msi r9 290) and tried overclocking, but things were getting to hot, so I dialed things back. I'm going to purchase a hyper 212 evo, but I was also thinking about extreme air cooling. THIS IS JUST AN IDEA, AND IM LOOKING FOR SECOND OPIONS/FEEDBACK. The set up I currently have planned has about 5 feet total of dryer hosing brining air into the dehumidifier (probably no necessary, but why risk it?), into the case, and back out the window. The intake and output would both have hoods and filters on them to avoid any snow entering the system. I really just have one issue, you guys might see more though. Can a pc stand up to below freezing temps? I'm thinking I would move my hdd so that its not directly in the flow of cold air, but what about other things? I've kind of thought about basically compartmentalizing my gpu and cpu cooler, and just cooling them, but is this necessary? it would be a lot of trouble. Thanks for any ideas

 

[Outlander_04]

What were you going to do in summer time?

IMO just buy a better cooler for the cpu . Better than the 212 is you want high OC's

 

[machg235]

I would just take it out during the summer. I don't game much during the summer since I'm gone a lot. As for a better cooler, I'm on a tight budget, and am more looing to do this as a cheap experiment, but I don't want to break anything.

 

[Outlander_04]

Theoretically what you want to do should work . How well it works will depend on air temp differences and the amount of air flow through the ducts

It might be easier to just move the computer outside and use a longer cable to your monitor/keyboard/mouse