Sorry if I sound like an idiot, but I see lots of people adding larger heatsinks and going WC for the reasons beyond lowering the temps of their hardware. Some seem to be under the impression that adding more effective heat dissipation units(heatsinks, WC) will lower the AMBIENT temp in a room that would otherwise be stiflingly hot and inhabitable in the warmer months of the year. I have a few questions about this and possible solutions.
My room can get pretty toasty in the summer with my rig and I would love to have it be a bit more habitable. It's is also my understanding the due to the laws of conservation of matter, mass and energy, no amount of dissipative cooling will actually lower the temperature of an enclosed room. Infact, over time and without any environmental dissipation(I know this is not possible, but in theory) within the environment, temps will rise indefinitely no matter what cooling solution one uses. The only way I could think this would not occur is through some sort of endothermic reaction, perhaps phase change. Even then I don't know what the heat output is on one of these devices.
Having this knowledge, it would be beneficial to open a window and have a windows fan blow air outside to increase the effectiveness of the dissipation process not just in the rig, but in the ambient setting. Or perhaps go a step further and create and tube that attaches to the exhausting case fans and run the tube out the window. This would also work vice versa in winter, if the humidity was low enough outside one could connect this window tube to the intake case fans.
Just trying to come up with some relatively inexpensive and "green" methods of taking cooling, for both hardware and living environment a step further, and ideas?
My room can get pretty toasty in the summer with my rig and I would love to have it be a bit more habitable. It's is also my understanding the due to the laws of conservation of matter, mass and energy, no amount of dissipative cooling will actually lower the temperature of an enclosed room. Infact, over time and without any environmental dissipation(I know this is not possible, but in theory) within the environment, temps will rise indefinitely no matter what cooling solution one uses. The only way I could think this would not occur is through some sort of endothermic reaction, perhaps phase change. Even then I don't know what the heat output is on one of these devices.
Having this knowledge, it would be beneficial to open a window and have a windows fan blow air outside to increase the effectiveness of the dissipation process not just in the rig, but in the ambient setting. Or perhaps go a step further and create and tube that attaches to the exhausting case fans and run the tube out the window. This would also work vice versa in winter, if the humidity was low enough outside one could connect this window tube to the intake case fans.
Just trying to come up with some relatively inexpensive and "green" methods of taking cooling, for both hardware and living environment a step further, and ideas?