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Like the title says, just looking for peoples opinion on something that my wife planted in my head a month ago. I'm about to pull the trigger to start ordering parts, but basically need reassurance that I'm not crazy and haven't left anything major out.
Here's the scenario:
The office that I work in is in my home. The airflow is horrible and the desk and window placements can't be changed. The PC I work on is on the far end of the room from the window and door. The rig is a custom job with (3) - EVGA GTX 770's in SLI, they are the 4GB for VRAM model (3774?) so upgrading them to water blocks is simply not possible. EK used to make some blocks for them, but has since recalled them because they where warping the cards. The GPU's have almost no space between them (maybe 1/4"), so airflow to them is nearly impossible. I have tried installing the side panel with a fan blowing directly on the GPU's, but interestingly their idle temp's still rose by 5 degrees within 10 minutes of the rig being sealed up... Oh ya, the case is Phantom 820.
The CPU is already cooled via a water loop, so what I'm about to propose is a completely separate loop from that. It would draw from the same power source, but that's about it.
The office I work in, given the setup, is fine in the morning but by afternoon it's easily 10 degrees warmer (and we're in winter right now in Seattle), in the summer is down right unbearable. At night, when I get to go gaming, I literally am sweating in here. Not an exaggeration...
So my idea was to remove the (3) 770 GPU's, and replace them with (2) GTX 980's. These would be water cooled. Now here's where it gets funny.
Since there is still the problem of ambient air temperature rising in the room, and an AC system for the room is out of the question, I need to do something with the excess heat that the cards generate. I was playing with the idea of running the tubing out of the computer, to a quick disconnect valve(s), and either out through a hole in a wall and into another portion of the house - where it can be distributed to a MUCH larger airflow pattern, or straight down the wall and into the basement storage room (much colder than any other area, but still clean).
I've already tabulated a basic idea of what parts I would need and the price they will run me, and I've got the money (just) to pull it off. LOVE to tinker with stuff and be creative like this, but with that said it's still a big undertaking to do.
Can anyone reading this tell me if I'm completely nuts for coming up with this idea, or what they might do differently, or where they suggest I put the radiator that will be at the end of the line?
If I do do this, either way the tubing would be surface mounted to the walls and be transparent. Running it to another, larger room will require about 540 linear inches of tubing. Running it down to the basement would only be about 200 inches... Tops... Trade off is that running it to another room (not the basement) would look frak'n cool when it's lit up with lights.
Thoughts?
Here's the scenario:
The office that I work in is in my home. The airflow is horrible and the desk and window placements can't be changed. The PC I work on is on the far end of the room from the window and door. The rig is a custom job with (3) - EVGA GTX 770's in SLI, they are the 4GB for VRAM model (3774?) so upgrading them to water blocks is simply not possible. EK used to make some blocks for them, but has since recalled them because they where warping the cards. The GPU's have almost no space between them (maybe 1/4"), so airflow to them is nearly impossible. I have tried installing the side panel with a fan blowing directly on the GPU's, but interestingly their idle temp's still rose by 5 degrees within 10 minutes of the rig being sealed up... Oh ya, the case is Phantom 820.
The CPU is already cooled via a water loop, so what I'm about to propose is a completely separate loop from that. It would draw from the same power source, but that's about it.
The office I work in, given the setup, is fine in the morning but by afternoon it's easily 10 degrees warmer (and we're in winter right now in Seattle), in the summer is down right unbearable. At night, when I get to go gaming, I literally am sweating in here. Not an exaggeration...
So my idea was to remove the (3) 770 GPU's, and replace them with (2) GTX 980's. These would be water cooled. Now here's where it gets funny.
Since there is still the problem of ambient air temperature rising in the room, and an AC system for the room is out of the question, I need to do something with the excess heat that the cards generate. I was playing with the idea of running the tubing out of the computer, to a quick disconnect valve(s), and either out through a hole in a wall and into another portion of the house - where it can be distributed to a MUCH larger airflow pattern, or straight down the wall and into the basement storage room (much colder than any other area, but still clean).
I've already tabulated a basic idea of what parts I would need and the price they will run me, and I've got the money (just) to pull it off. LOVE to tinker with stuff and be creative like this, but with that said it's still a big undertaking to do.
Can anyone reading this tell me if I'm completely nuts for coming up with this idea, or what they might do differently, or where they suggest I put the radiator that will be at the end of the line?
If I do do this, either way the tubing would be surface mounted to the walls and be transparent. Running it to another, larger room will require about 540 linear inches of tubing. Running it down to the basement would only be about 200 inches... Tops... Trade off is that running it to another room (not the basement) would look frak'n cool when it's lit up with lights.
Thoughts?
