Water cooling and room temp..

[thently]

Ok I have a server and my gamming PC then a second gamming pc then a junker in my home office problem being as anyone on here would know if they are all on my office gets freekin hot. My question is my Personal gamming PC makes the biggest jump in temp say 5 deg to 7 when it is on e8500 OC to 4.0 and an overclocked 8800GTX so will water cooling drop the temd in a room or is this just gonna add the same amount of heat just remove it from components faster? I don't have temp issues in the PC Antec 900 gets the heat out of the case fast just puts it in the room.

 

[Conumdrum]

It just removes the heat faster. 200 watts of heat in a room is 200 watts added to room temps no matter how you pull it from the parts.

WC does remove the specific heat from the parts (CPU etc) more effieciently though. Great WC is better than a good TRUE. WC really shines on video cards.

Lower chip temps but no help on room temps.

 

[Silverion77]

Edit: Conumdrum beat me

No general cooling like air and H2O can go lower than the ambient temperature of the room. It will dissipate it faster and get lower to ambient than air cooling but it wont lower ur room temperature

Only things like LN2, TECs and such can go below ambient.

 

[Conumdrum]

TECs actually heat a room up more. It takes wattage to cool a TEC and the hot side of a TEC is MUCH higher in wattage than what it pulls from the cool side of it. It's due to neededing a high wattage PSU just to make the TECs work properly.

So yes, they can cool sub ambient, but they add more total heat to the solution.

LN2 is liquid nitrogen, not something used in daily computing. It's poured into a 'pot' on top of the CPU, we are talking -125C or so.

 

[Silverion77]

Yea good call

Forgot about the TEC wattage 😛

 

[thently]

Yeah I did not mean below ambient I guess i just need to snag one of those move N cool AC's for my office we use them at work for server rooms. I mean if me and a few people game for an hour or so in there it can get to 80 not to fun well thanks all.

 

[rubix_1011]

We've used those portable room AC's before and they work well as long as you don't get too many people in a room. They work well in conjunction with your central AC to keep the room a little more balanced, but don't do as well on their own. I suppose you could modify one and setup to blow directly into your case or run your radiators directly in front of the cold air vent. That's what I would do, although it would make LAN gaming a pain.